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A golden life
Machín Alvarez, Paula
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A golden life
Ecology of breeding waders in low Lapland
Paula Machín
The research presented in this thesis was carried out at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, except the last year that was carried out at the Conservation Ecology Group, Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
Printing of this thesis was supported by the University of Groningen (RUG).
COLOFON Layout: Dick Visser
Photographs: Ugo Mellone: Ch1,2,5,6,7, Acknowledgemetns, Bibliography and Summary; Paula Machín: Ch3; John Skartveit: Ch4.
Printed by: GVO drukkers & vormgevers B.V., Ede ISBN: 9789403408408
ISBN: 9789403408392 (electronic version) © 2018 Paula Machín (machinpaula@gmail.com)
A golden life
Ecology of breeding waders in low Lapland
PhD thesis
to obtain the degree of PhD at the
University of Groningen
on the authority of the
Rector Magnificus Prof. E. Sterken
and in accordance with
the decision by the College of Deans.
This thesis will be defended in public on
Friday 7 September 2018 at 11.00 hours
by
Paula María Machín Álvarez
born on 17 November 1986
Supervisor
Prof. T. Piersma
Co-supervisors
Dr. R.H.G. Klaassen
Dr. J.I. Aguirre
Assessment Committee
Prof. C. Both
Prof. Å. Lindström
Prof. L.G. Underhill
Contents
CHAPTER1 Introduction 7
CHAPTER2 On the role of ecological and environmental conditions on the nesting 21 success of waders in subarctic Fennoscandia
Paula Machín, Juan Fernández‐Elipe, Johannes Hungar, Anders Angerbjörn, Raymond H.G. Klaassen and José I. Aguirre
Submitted to Polar Biology
CHAPTER3 Habitat selection, diet and food availability of European Golden Plover 33
Pluvialis apricaria chicks in Swedish Lapland
Paula Machín, Juan Fernández‐Elipe, Heiner Flinks, Maite Laso, José I. Aguirre and Raymond H.G. Klaassen
Published in Ibis (2017) 159:657–672
CHAPTER4 The relative importance of food abundance and weather on the growth 55 of a subarctic shorebird chick
Paula Machín, Juan Fernández‐Elipe and Raymond H.G. Klaassen
Published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2018) 72:42
CHAPTER5 Conditions at breeding grounds and migration strategy shape different moult 77 patterns of two populations of Eurasian Golden Plover Pluvialis apricaria
Paula Machín, Magdalena Remisiewicz, Juan Fernández‐Elipe, Joop Jukema and Raymond H.G. Klaassen
Accepted in Journal of Avian Biology
CHAPTER6 Individual migration patterns of Eurasian Golden Plovers Pluvialis apricaria 97 breeding in Swedish Lapland; examples of cold spell‐induced
winter movements
Paula Machín, Juan Fernández‐Elipe, Manuel Flores, James W. Fox, Jose I. Aguirre and Raymond H. G. Klaassen
Published in Journal of Avian Biology (2015) 46:634–642
CHAPTER7 General discussion 113
Bibliography 125
Summary / Samenvatting 141
