PUBLICATIONS

IN PRESS

Muzaffar SB, Smith Jr, RP, Jones IL, Lavers JL, Lacombe EH, Cahill BK, Lubelczyk CB, and Rand PW. in press. Ecology of emerging Lyme disease (Borrelia garnini) in seabird colonies off the Atlantic coast of North America. Studies in Avian Biology.

2011

Bond AL and Lavers JL. 2011. Contemporary trace element concentrations in Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes) feathers from across their breeding range. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 61: 318-326
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2010

Lavers JL, Wilcox C, and Donlan CJ. 2010. Bird demographic responses to predator removal programs. Biological Invasions.
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Bond AL, McClelland GTW, Lavers JL, Jones IL, and Kyser TK. 2010. Stable isotopes reveal community patterns in seabird feeding ecology in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Waterbirds 33: 50-58.
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2009

Lavers JL, Jones IL, Robertson GJ, and Diamond AW. 2009. Contrasting population trends at two Razorbill colonies in Atlantic Canada: additive effects of fox predation and hunting mortality. Avian Conservation and Ecology 4: 1-17
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2008

Lavers JL, Jones IL, Diamond AW, and Robertson GJ. 2008. Annual survival of North American Razorbills (Alca torda) varies with ocean climate indices. Canadian Journal of Zoology 86: 51-61.
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Lavers JL and Jones IL. 2008. Assessing the type and frequency of band resighting errors for Razorbill (Alca torda) with implications for other wildlife studies. Marine Ornithology 36: 19-23.
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Lavers JL, Jones IL, and Diamond AW. 2008. Age at first return and breeding of Razorbills (Alca torda) in Atlantic Canada. Waterbirds 31: 30-34.
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McClelland GTW, Jones IL, Lavers JL, and Saito F. 2008. Breeding biology of Tristram’s Storm-petrel at French Frigate Shoals and Laysan Island, Northwest Hawaiian Islands. Marine Ornithology 36: 177
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2007

Lavers JL and Jones IL. 2007. Factors affecting rates of intraspecific kleptoparasitism and breeding success of the Razorbill at the Gannet Islands, Labrador. Marine Ornithology 35: 1-7.
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Lavers JL, Jones IL, and Diamond AW. 2007. Natal and breeding dispersal of Razorbills (Alca torda) in eastern North America. Waterbirds 30: 593-99.
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2006

Lavers JL, Muzaffar SB, and Jones IL. 2006. Double white lines on the bill of the Razorbill (Alca torda): remnants of an association with the extinct Great Auk? Atlantic Seabirds 7: 127-132.
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Lavers JL, Thompson JE, Paszkowski C, and Ankney CD. 2006. Variation in size and composition of Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) and Barrow’s Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) eggs. The Wilson Bulletin
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Smith RP, Muzaffar SB, Lavers JL, Lacombe EH, Cahill BK, Lubelczyk CB, and Rand PW. 2006. Borrelia garinii in seabird ticks (Ixodes uriae), Atlantic coast, North America. Emerging Infectious Diseases
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