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ArticleBiology letters2025

Population density and timing of breeding mediate effects of early life conditions on recruitment.

Sarah D Mueller, Nathaniel T Wheelwright, Daniel J Mennill, Amy E M Newman, Stéphanie M Doucet, Joseph B Burant, Sarah L Dobney, Greg W Mitchell, Hayley A Spina, D Ryan Norris

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Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Sarah D MuellerDepartment of Integrative Biology, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0009-0001-8747-6890
Nathaniel T WheelwrightDepartment of Biology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA.
Daniel J MennillDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Amy E M NewmanDepartment of Integrative Biology, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1005-8380
Stéphanie M DoucetBiological Sciences, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Joseph B BurantDepartment of Integrative Biology, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Sarah L DobneyDepartment of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Greg W MitchellWildlife Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Hayley A SpinaDepartment of Integrative Biology, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
D Ryan NorrisDepartment of Integrative Biology, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4874-1425

Funding

Canada Foundation for InnovationNational Science FoundationNatural Science and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Guelph
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying the factors driving juvenile recruitment is crucial for predicting the response of populations to environmental change. Importantly, how early life conditions carry over to influence recruitment may be highly dependent on the context in which they occur. For example, the effects of challenging early life conditions may be more pronounced under high densities or when young are born late in the season. We examined the ecological factors influencing local recruitment spanning three decades in Savannah sparrows (

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ReproductionSparrowsAnimalsFemaleMalePopulation DensitySeasonscarry-over effectsdemographyjuvenile survivalreproductionSavannah sparrow

Identifiers

PMID40262641
PMCPMC12014229

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