Quantifying the contribution of immigration to population dynamics: a review of methods, evidence and perspectives in birds and mammals

Characterizing spatio-temporal variation in survival and recruitment with integrated population models

(2018) Richard B. Chandler et al.   AUK

Isolating the roles of movement and reproduction on effective connectivity alters conservation priorities for an endangered bird

(2018) Ellen P. Robertson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conspecific and not performance-based attraction on immigrants drives colony growth in a waterbird

(2017) Simone Tenan et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Relationship type affects the reliability of dispersal distance estimated using pedigree inferences in partially sampled populations: A case study involving invasive American mink in Scotland

(2017) Y. Melero et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction signaled by vertebrate population losses and declines

(2017) Gerardo Ceballos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long-term demography of the Northern Goshawk in a variable environment

(2017) Richard T. Reynolds et al.   WILDLIFE MONOGRAPHS

Immigration ensures population survival in the Siberian flying squirrel

(2017) Jon E. Brommer et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Interactions between demography and environmental effects are important determinants of population dynamics

(2017) Marlène Gamelon et al.   Science Advances

Geographically isolated but demographically connected: Immigration supports efficient conservation actions in the recovery of a range-margin population of the Bonelli's eagle in France

(2016) Nicolas Lieury et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

When immigration mask threats: The rescue effect of a Scopoli's shearwater colony in the Western Mediterranean as a case study

(2016) Ana Sanz-Aguilar et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The compensatory potential of increased immigration following intensive American mink population control is diluted by male-biased dispersal

(2016) M. K. Oliver et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Climate-driven vital rates do not always mean climate-driven population

(2016) Giacomo Tavecchia et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Integrated population modelling reveals a perceived source to be a cryptic sink

(2016) Mitch D. Weegman et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Genetic differentiation between humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae ) from Atlantic and Pacific breeding grounds of South America

(2016) Ana Lúcia Cypriano-Souza et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Genetic rescue in a severely inbred wolf population

(2016) Mikael Åkesson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Demographic routes to variability and regulation in bird populations

(2016) Bernt-Erik Sæther et al.   Nature Communications

Long-term dynamics in local host-parasite interactions linked to regional population trends

(2016) Zachary S. Ladin et al.   Ecosphere

Low Immigration and High Local Recruitment in an Isolated, Coastal Population of a Declining Grassland Passerine, the Northern WheatearOenanthe oenanthe

(2015) Pierre-Yves Henry et al.   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Estimating golden-cheeked warbler immigration: implications for the spatial scale of conservation

(2015) A. Duarte et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

A 10-year demographic study of a small mammal community in the Australian Alps

(2015) D. C. D. Happold   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Relative contribution of local demography and immigration in the recovery of a geographically-isolated population of the endangered Egyptian vulture

(2015) Nicolas Lieury et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Compensatory immigration counteracts contrasting conservation strategies of wolverines ( Gulo gulo ) within Scandinavia

(2015) Vincenzo Gervasi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Empirical evidence for source-sink populations: a review on occurrence, assessments and implications

(2015) Roman D. Furrer et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Estimating immigration using a Bayesian integrated population model: choice of parametrization and priors

(2015) Michael Schaub et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS

Differential contribution of demographic rate synchrony to population synchrony in barn swallows

(2015) Michael Schaub et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Compensatory immigration challenges predator control: An experimental evidence-based approach improves management

(2015) Nicolas Lieury et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

(2015) R. Kays et al.   SCIENCE

Suburban immigrants to wildlands disrupt honest signaling in ultra-violet plumage

(2015) Angela Tringali et al.   Avian Conservation and Ecology

Single nucleotide polymorphism-based dispersal estimates using noninvasive sampling

(2015) Anita J. Norman et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Immigration and dispersal are key determinants of cultural diversity in a songbird population

(2014) Annette L. Fayet et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Using integrated population models to improve conservation monitoring: California spotted owls as a case study

(2014) Douglas J. Tempel et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

A demographic, spatially explicit patch occupancy model of metapopulation dynamics and persistence

(2014) C. S. Sutherland et al.   ECOLOGY

Dampening prey cycle overrides the impact of climate change on predator population dynamics: a long-term demographic study on tawny owls

(2014) Alexandre Millon et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Site-specific dynamics in remnant populations of Northern WheatearsOenanthe oenanthein the Netherlands

(2014) H. Herman van Oosten et al.   IBIS

How Ebola impacts social dynamics in gorillas: a multistate modelling approach

(2014) Céline Genton et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Immigrants are attracted by local pre-breeders and recruits in a seabird colony

(2014) K. Lesley Szostek et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The role of immigration and local adaptation on fine-scale genotypic and phenotypic population divergence in a less mobile passerine

(2014) V. García-Navas et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Seasonal movements and dispersal patterns: Implications for recruitment and management of willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus)

(2014) Maria Hörnell-Willebrand et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Effects of population characteristics and structure on estimates of effective population size in a house sparrow metapopulation

(2014) Helle Tessand Baalsrud et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Tracking Natal Dispersal in a Coastal Population of a Migratory Songbird Using Feather Stable Isotope (δ2H, δ34S) Tracers

(2014) Samuel Haché et al.   PLoS One

Inferring dispersal dynamics from local population demographic modelling: the case of the slender-billed gull in France

(2013) A. Doxa et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Dramatic increase in the Zembretta Yelkouan shearwater breeding population following ship rat eradication spurs interest in managing a 1500-year old invasion

(2013) Karen Bourgeois et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Strong contribution of immigration to local population regulation: evidence from a migratory passerine

(2013) Michael Schaub et al.   ECOLOGY

A robust design capture-recapture model with multiple age classes augmented with population assignment data

(2013) Zhi Wen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS

The demography of a newly established OspreyPandion haliaetuspopulation in France

(2013) Rolf Wahl et al.   IBIS

Nestboxes and immigration drive the growth of an urban Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinuspopulation

(2013) Res Altwegg et al.   IBIS

REVIEW: Identifying links between vital rates and environment: a toolbox for the applied ecologist

(2013) Morten Frederiksen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Identifying hidden sinks in growing populations from individual fates and movements: The feral horses of Sable Island

(2013) Adrienne L. Contasti et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Estimating true instead of apparent survival using spatial Cormack-Jolly-Seber models

(2013) Michael Schaub et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Parsimony-based pedigree analysis and individual-based landscape genetics suggest topography to restrict dispersal and connectivity in the endangered capercaillie

(2012) Urs Kormann et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Stable-hydrogen isotope measures of natal dispersal reflect observed population declines in a threatened migratory songbird

(2012) Colin E. Studds et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Searching for sustainability: are assessments of wildlife harvests behind the times?

(2012) Karen Z. Weinbaum et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conserving small and fragmented populations of large mammals: Non-invasive genetic sampling in an isolated population of Asian elephants in Nepal

(2012) Øystein Flagstad et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Compensation and additivity of anthropogenic mortality: life-history effects and review of methods

(2012) Guillaume Péron   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Population dynamics of an expanding passerine at the distribution margin

(2012) Juhani Karvonen et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Immigration stabilizes a population of threatened cavity-nesting raptors despite possibility of nest box imprinting

(2012) Jessi L. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Building genetic networks using relatedness information: a novel approach for the estimation of dispersal and characterization of group structure in social animals

(2012) LEE ANN ROLLINS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The role of immigration andin-situradiation in explaining blood parasite assemblages in an island bird clade

(2012) JOSSELIN CORNUAULT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Density dependence: an ecological Tower of Babel

(2012) Salvador Herrando-Pérez et al.   OECOLOGIA

Massive Nest-Box Supplementation Boosts Fecundity, Survival and Even Immigration without Altering Mating and Reproductive Behaviour in a Rapidly Recovered Bird Population

(2012) Karine Berthier et al.   PLoS One

Genetic population assignment reveals a long-distance incursion to an island by a stoat (Mustela erminea)

(2011) A. J. Veale et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Costs of dispersal

(2011) Dries Bonte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Social and habitat correlates of immigrant recruitment of yearling female Mallards to breeding locations

(2011) Daniel W. Coulton et al.   JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY

The rise and fall of local populations of ortolan buntings Emberiza hortulana: importance of movements of adult males

(2011) Svein Dale et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

How much can parentage analyses tell us about precapture dispersal?

(2011) P. M. WASER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The demographic drivers of local population dynamics in two rare migratory birds

(2011) Michael Schaub et al.   OECOLOGIA

Tracking large carnivore dispersal using isotopic clues in claws: an application to cougars across the Great Plains

(2011) Viviane Hénaux et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Colony foundation in the lesser kestrel: patterns and consequences of the occupation of empty habitat patches

(2010) Gustau Calabuig et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Massive immigration balances high anthropogenic mortality in a stable eagle owl population: Lessons for conservation

(2010) Michael Schaub et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Augmenting Superpopulation Capture-Recapture Models with Population Assignment Data

(2010) Zhi Wen et al.   BIOMETRICS

Bottlenecks and rescue effects in a fluctuating population of golden-mantled ground squirrels (Spermophilus lateralis)

(2010) Mary Brooke McEachern et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Genetic estimates of immigration and emigration rates in relation to population density and forest patch area in Peromyscus leucopus

(2010) Christine S. Anderson et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Habitat fragmentation disrupts the demography of a widespread native mammal

(2010) Greg J. Holland et al.   ECOGRAPHY

An assessment of integrated population models: bias, accuracy, and violation of the assumption of independence

(2010) Fitsum Abadi et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of climate change and variability on population dynamics in a long-lived shorebird

(2010) Martijn van de Pol et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatially explicit inference for open populations: estimating demographic parameters from camera-trap studies

(2010) Beth Gardner et al.   ECOLOGY

Estimation of immigration rate using integrated population models

(2010) Fitsum Abadi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Apparent Survival and Population Growth of Snowy Plovers in Coastal Northern California

(2010) Stephen M. Mullin et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Impact of dispersal status on estimates of local population growth rates in a Temminck's stint Calidris temminckii population

(2010) Veli-Matti Pakanen et al.   OIKOS

Estimating offspring production using capture-mark-recapture and genetic methods in red squirrels

(2009) Erica Di Pierro et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Parentage and Sibship Inference From Multilocus Genotype Data Under Polygamy

(2009) J. Wang et al.   GENETICS

Population dynamics in a cyclic environment: consequences of cyclic food abundance on tawny owl reproduction and survival

(2009) Patrik Karell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Spatial and temporal variation in the relative contribution of density dependence, climate variation and migration to fluctuations in the size of great tit populations

(2009) Vidar Grøtan et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Sex-specific fitness correlates of dispersal in a house sparrow metapopulation

(2009) Henrik Pärn et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Pulsed resources affect the timing of first breeding and lifetime reproductive success of tawny owls

(2009) A. Millon et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Landscape barriers reduce gene flow in an invasive carnivore: geographical and local genetic structure of American mink in Scotland

(2009) ANDRZEJ ZALEWSKI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

How can the Yelkouan shearwater survive feral cat predation? A meta-population structure as a solution?

(2009) Elsa Bonnaud et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Factors Responsible for the Long-Term Dynamics of the Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleucaPopulations in the Taiga of Karelia, Russia

(2008) Alexander V. Artemyev   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Immigration costs for female chimpanzees and male protection as an immigrant counterstrategy to intrasexual aggression

(2008) Sonya M. Kahlenberg et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Estimation of Rates of Births, Deaths, and Immigration from Mark-Recapture Data

(2008) R. B. O'Hara et al.   BIOMETRICS

SINK POPULATIONS IN CARNIVORE MANAGEMENT: COUGAR DEMOGRAPHY AND IMMIGRATION IN A HUNTED POPULATION

(2008) Hugh S. Robinson et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

CHARACTERIZING SOURCE–SINK DYNAMICS WITH GENETIC PARENTAGE ASSIGNMENTS

(2008) M. Zachariah Peery et al.   ECOLOGY

Informed dispersal, heterogeneity in animal dispersal syndromes and the dynamics of spatially structured populations

(2008) Jean Clobert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A metapopulation approach to the population biology of the Song Sparrow Melospiza melodia

(2008) JAMES N. M. SMITH et al.   IBIS

The importance of natal dispersal in a colonial seabird, the Black Guillemot Cepphus grylle

(2008) MORTEN FREDERIKSEN et al.   IBIS

Population dynamics of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia in western France

(2008) CRISTOPHE BARBRAUD et al.   IBIS

Estimating fitness consequences of dispersal: a road to ‘know-where’? Non-random dispersal and the underestimation of dispersers’ fitness

(2008) Blandine Doligez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Influential factors for natal dispersal in an avian island metapopulation

(2008) Amy G. Wilson et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Estimating Sustainable Harvest in Wolverine Populations Using Logistic Regression

(2008) Fredrik Dalerum et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Revealing cryptic genetic structuring in an urban population of stray cats (Felis silvestris catus)

(2008) Sébastien Devillard et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Genetic structure and dispersal in a small South African rodent. Is dispersal female-biased?

(2008) Jork Meyer et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Dispersal of sibling coalitions promotes helping among immigrants in a cooperatively breeding bird

(2008) S. P Sharp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Wild pedigrees: the way forward

(2008) J.M Pemberton   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES