The proceedings of the 4th Pan-European Duck Symposium have been published in a Special Issue of Ornis Fennica. All the following papers are available to download from the Ornis Fennica website:
Markus Ost, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Hannu Poysa & Andreas Lindén: European ducks in a changing world: human impacts, population processes and species interactions.
Jocelyn Champagnon, Matthieu Guillemain, Jean-Yves Mondain-Monval, Guillaume Souchay, Pierre Legagneux, Vincent Bretagnolle, Laura Van Ingen, Francois Bourguemestre & Jean-Dominique Lebreton: Contribution of released captive-bred Mallards to the dynamics of the natural population.
Anthony D. Fox, Lars Dalby, Thomas Kjaer Christensen, Szabolcs Nagy, Thorsten J.S. Balsby, Olivia Crowe, Preben Clausen, Bernard Deceuninck, Koen Devos, Chas A. Holt, Menno Hornman, Verena Keller, Tom Langendoen, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Svein-Hakon Lorentsen, Blas Molina, Leif Nilsson, Antra Stipniece, Jens-Christian Svenning & Johannes Wahl: Seeking explanations for recent changes in abundance of wintering Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope) in northwest Europe.
Anthony D. Fox, Kevin Kuhlmann Clausen, Lars Dalby, Thomas Kjaer Christensen & Peter Sunde: Between-year variations in sex/age ratio bias in hunter wings of Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope) compared to field samples.
Aleksi Lehikoinen, Sara Fraixedas, Daniel Burgas, Heikki Eriksson, Heikki Henttonen, Hanna Laakkonen, Petteri Lehikoinen, Joona Lehtomaki, Jenni Leppanen, Sanna Makelainen, Jukka Niemimaa, Mari Pihlajaniemi, Jarkko Santaharju & Kaisa Valimaki: The impact of weather and the phase of the rodent cycle on breeding populations of waterbirds in Finnish Lapland.
Veli-Matti Vaananen, Hannu Poysa & Pentti Runko: Nest and brood stage association between ducks and small colonial gulls in boreal wetlands.
Lasse Kurvinen, Mikael Kilpi, Mikael Nordstrom & Markus Ost: Drivers of decline and changed nest-site preference of the Baltic eider: an island-level analysis from south-western Finland.
Petri Nummi, Veli-Matti Vaananen, Sari Holopainen & Hannu Poysa: Duck–fish competition in boreal lakes – a review.
Thanks again to Mikael Kilpi, Aleksi Lehikoinen and the other co-organisers of PEDS4 for a great conference!
