Abstract Identifying how species respond to system drivers such as weather, climate, habitat, and resource availability is critical for understanding population change. In coastal areas, the transfer of nutrients across the marine and terrestrial interface increases complexity. Nesting populations of bald eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) along the Pacific coast of North America, although terrestrial, are largely dependent on marine resources during the breeding season and therefore represent a good focal specie…

Animal species often have diverse requirements at different life history stages. Individuals may best meet these requirements by occupying areas with diverse heterogenous resources. Human activities such as agriculture may affect available habitat and heterogenous resources, but current understanding of possible effects is incomplete. We investigated habitat use and survival of an avian habitat specialist species with broods, the greater sage-grouse, in a landscape with different ecological types of sagebrush comm…

Contemporary climate change is modifying the distribution, morphology, phenology, physiology, evolution, and interspecific interactions of species. Effects of climate change are mediated not only through the magnitude of change experienced (exposure) and an animal's sensitivity to such changes, but also through the ability of the population or species to adjust to climatic variability and change genetically, behaviorally, or spatially (via its distribution) (i.e., adaptive capacity; AC). Here, we used an attribute…

Supplemental Material for: Habitat heterogeneity buffers the effects of environmental change on offspring fitness in an umbrella species

Hypoxia is common to shallow ice-covered lakes during the winter season, and restorative actions to prevent impacts to aquatic ecosystems are desired yet untested in remote settings. The use of a solar photovoltaic circulator was investigated for reoxygenation in a shallow hypoxic lake in the northern Rocky Mountains. During the fall of 2019, a solar powered lake circulator (SolarBee SB10000LH; hereinafter circulator) was installed near the center of Upper Red Rock Lake, Montana USA (latitude 44° 36’N) and dissolv…