ARTIFICIAL BIRD NESTS, EXTERNAL VALIDITY, AND BIAS IN ECOLOGICAL FIELD STUDIES

By Randall Moore, W. Douglas Robinson. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

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2. Keith A. Hobson
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2. J. Donázar
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7. A. Anders
8. J. D. Ibáñez-Álamo

Citations in the corpus

• Recent advances in understanding migration systems of New World land birds (2010, methodology): “Much of the information about nest predation comes from the use of artificial nests, a method with important biases (Faaborg 2004, Moore and Robinson 2004).”
• Vulnerability of ground-nesting waterbirds to predation by invasive American mink in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile. (2009, background): “Although artificial nests are widely used in avian field studies (Moore and Robinson, 2004), they have been criticized as not reliably reflecting predators and predation rates of natural nests (e.g., Faaborg, 2003).”
• Nest predation research: recent findings and future perspectives (2015, background): “Utilization of artificial nests is still widespread among the scientific community (e.g. Vetter et al. 2013; Selva et al. 2014) even though artificial nests often produce unrealistic patterns of nest predation (e.g. Weidinger 2001; Zanette 2002; Moore and Robinson 2004).”
• Testing ecological and behavioral correlates of nest predation (2007, background): “The nest predator community in this system is simple and the primary predators are the same at both artificial and real nests, limiting potential differences between nest predators of real and artificial nests (Moore and Robinson 2004, Thompson and Burhans 2004).”
• Gulliver travels to the fragmented tropics: geographic variation in mechanisms of avian extinction (2005, background): “However, the accuracy with which artificial nests measure predation of real bird nests is questionable ( Moore and Robinson 2004 ).”
• Carcasses increase the probability of predation of ground‐nesting birds: a caveat regarding the conservation value of vulture restaurants (2009, background): “Inferences drawn from data generated by well-designed artificial nest studies can be useful in addressing a number of ecological questions (Moore & Robinson, 2004).”