Publications

leucocytozoon simondi infection in european and american eiders.	an adult european eider (somateria mollissima mollissima) died at the st louis zoo and was found to be infected with numerous blood and tissue stages of leucocytozoon simondi. necropsy revealed massive air sac aspergillosis, but histologic examination revealed a diffusely distributed protozoon organism that was identified as l simondi. examination of tissues from a previously necropsied european eider and from 2 american eiders (somateria mollissima dresseri) that later died also revealed eviden ...	1983	6417090
survival of female common eiders somateria m. mollissima in a declining population of the northern baltic sea.	in long-lived species, adult survival is the population parameter having the highest elasticity, and therefore, it can be expected to be least affected by climatic variations. we studied the dynamics and survival of breeding female common eiders somateria mollissima mollissima in the baltic sea from 1960 to 2007. using nest censuses and capture-recapture methods, we investigated: (1) the annual apparent survival (phi) of breeding females, (2) the survival-mediated population fluctuation, (3) wea ...	2009	19139920