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Productivity drives demography and sex structure in a declining waterfowl species
Alain Caizergues, Alicia Lamé, Adrien Tableau, Guillaume Souchay
The paper uses a demographic model to show that productivity, particularly nest survival, drives population decline and male-biased sex structure in Common pochard.
DOI 10.64898/2026.06.15.732236