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Brett K. Sandercock is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with extensive work across related subfields including ecology, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, and the integration of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics covered in Sandercock's work involve species distribution and climate change, avian ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, climate variability and models, marine animal studies overview, and fish ecology and management studies.

Sandercock has contributed multiple publications to a variety of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include The Auk, Global Change Biology, Ornithological Applications, Wader Study, and Ecology and Evolution.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on migratory birds, climate impacts, and conservation biology. Notable recent papers include:

  • Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • The future distribution of wetland birds breeding in Europe validated against observed changes in distribution (2022, Environmental Research Letters)
  • Benefits of protected areas for nonbreeding waterbirds adjusting their distributions under climate warming (2020, Conservation Biology)
  • Annual adult survival drives trends in Arctic-breeding shorebirds but knowledge gaps in other vital rates remain (2020, Ornithological Applications)
  • Impacts of predator-mediated interactions along a climatic gradient on the population dynamics of an alpine bird (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)

Sandercock collaborates frequently with several researchers who contribute to similar fields of study. These frequent co-authors include Aleksi Lehikoinen, Alaaeldin Soultan, Diego Pavón-Jordán, Jon E. Brommer, and Élie Gaget.

Best Publications

  • The avian gut microbiota: community, physiology and function in wild birds

    Kirsten Grond;Brett K. Sandercock;Brett K. Sandercock;Ari Jumpponen;Lydia H. Zeglin

  • Estimation of Demographic Parameters from Live‐Encounter Data: a Summary Review

    Brett K. Sandercock

  • Is hunting mortality additive or compensatory to natural mortality? Effects of experimental harvest on the survival and cause-specific mortality of willow ptarmigan.

    Brett K. Sandercock;Erlend B. Nilsen;Henrik Brøseth;Hans C. Pedersen

  • Genetic similarity between mates and extra-pair parentage in three species of shorebirds

    Donald Blomqvist;Malte Andersson;Clemens Küpper;Innes C. Cuthill

  • Survival rates of a neotropical parrot: implications for latitudinal comparisons of avian demography

    Brett K. Sandercock;Steven R. Beissinger;Scott H. Stoleson;Rebecca R. Melland

  • Demographic Sensitivity of Population Change in Northern Bobwhite

    Brett K. Sandercock;William E. Jensen;Christopher K. Williams;Roger D. Applegate

  • ESTIMATING DORMANCY AND SURVIVAL OF A RARE HERBACEOUS PERENNIAL USING MARK–RECAPTURE MODELS

    Richard P. Shefferson;Brett K. Sandercock;Joyce Proper;Steven R. Beissinger

  • LIFE HISTORY STRATEGIES IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS: COMPARATIVE DEMOGRAPHY OF ARCTIC AND ALPINE PTARMIGAN

    Brett K. Sandercock;Brett K. Sandercock;Kathy Martin;Susan J. Hannon

  • Estimation of survival rates for wader populations: a review of mark-recapture methods

    Brett K. Sandercock

  • Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds

    Martin Bulla;Mihai Valcu;Adriaan M. Dokter;Alexei G. Dondua

  • Patterns and drivers of intraspecific variation in avian life history along elevational gradients: a meta‐analysis

    W. Alice Boyle;W. Alice Boyle;Brett K. Sandercock;Kathy Martin;Kathy Martin

  • Effects of wind energy development on nesting ecology of Greater Prairie-Chickens in fragmented grasslands

    Lance B. Mcnew;Lyla M. Hunt;Andrew J. Gregory;Samantha M. Wisely

  • Space use by female Greater Prairie‐Chickens in response to wind energy development

    V. L. Winder;L. B. McNew;A. J. Gregory;L. M. Hunt

  • ANNUAL SURVIVAL RATES OF WINTERING SPARROWS: ASSESSING DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION

    Brett K. Sandercock;Alvaro Jaramillo

  • Animal migration to northern latitudes: environmental changes and increasing threats

    Vojtěch Kubelka;Brett K. Sandercock;Tamás Székely;Tamás Székely;Robert P. Freckleton

  • Age-Specific Survival and Probable Causes of Mortality in Female Lesser Prairie-Chickens

    Christian A. Hagen;James C. Pitman;Brett K. Sandercock;Robert J. Robel

  • Spatial Variation in Lesser Prairie-Chicken Demography: A Sensitivity Analysis of Population Dynamics and Management Alternatives

    Christian A. Hagen;Brett K. Sandercock;James C. Pitman;Robert J. Robel

  • Effects of wind energy development on survival of female greater prairie-chickens

    Virginia L. Winder;Lance B. McNew;Andrew J. Gregory;Lyla M. Hunt

  • Recruitment and establishment of the gut microbiome in arctic shorebirds.

    Kirsten Grond;Richard B Lanctot;Ari Jumpponen;Brett K Sandercock

  • Composition and Drivers of Gut Microbial Communities in Arctic-Breeding Shorebirds

    Kirsten Grond;Kirsten Grond;Jorge W. Santo Domingo;Richard B. Lanctot;Ari Jumpponen

  • Mortality within the annual cycle: seasonal survival patterns in Afro-Siberian Red Knots Calidris canutus canutus

    Jutta Leyrer;Jutta Leyrer;Tamar Lok;Maarten Brugge;Bernard Spaans

  • Demography of greater prairie‐chickens: Regional variation in vital rates, sensitivity values, and population dynamics

    Lance B. McNew;Andrew J. Gregory;Samantha M. Wisely;Brett K. Sandercock

  • Demographic consequences of age-structure in extreme environments: population models for arctic and alpine ptarmigan

    Brett K. Sandercock;Kathy Martin;Susan J. Hannon

  • Supporting Information for 'Unexpected diversity in socially synchronized rhythms of shorebirds'

    Martin Bulla;Mihai Valcu;Adriaan M. Dokter;Alexei G. Dondua

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard B. Lanctot
Richard B. Lanctot United States Fish and Wildlife Service
David B. Lank
David B. Lank Simon Fraser University
Samantha M. Wisely
Samantha M. Wisely University of Florida
Christian A. Hagen
Christian A. Hagen Oregon State University
Bart Kempenaers
Bart Kempenaers Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Erica Nol
Erica Nol Trent University
Keith A. Hobson
Keith A. Hobson University of Western Ontario
Susan M. Haig
Susan M. Haig Oregon State University
David H. Ward
David H. Ward United States Geological Survey
Reed Bowman
Reed Bowman Archbold Biological Station

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