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1 University of Groningen Food finding Prop, Jouke IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2004 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Prop, J. (2004). Food finding: On the trail to successful reproduction in migratory geese. Groningen: s.n. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. Download date:

2 Publications Black JM, Prop J, Hunter JM, Woog F, Marshall AP, Bowler JM (1994) Foraging behaviour and energetics of the Hawaiian goose Branta sandvicensis. Wildfowl 45: Black JM, Prop J, Larsson K (2004) Wild goose dilemmas. Population consequences of individual decisions in barnacle geese. Branta Books, Groningen Choudhury S, Jones CS, Black JM, Prop J (1993) Adoption of young and intraspecific nest parasitism in barnacle geese. Condor 95: Drent RH, Black JM, Loonen MJJE, Prop J (1998) Barnacle geese Branta leucopsis on Nordenskiöldkysten, western Spitsbergen-in thirty years from colonisation to saturation. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 200: Lang A, Houston A, I, Black JM, Pettifor RA, Prop J (1998) From individual feeding performance to predicting population dynamics in barnacle geese: The spring staging model. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 200: Lok M, Van den Bergh L, Ebbinge B, Van Haperen A, Philippona J, Prop J, Timmerman Azn A (1992) Numbers and distribution of wild geese in the Netherlands, , with special reference to weather. Wildfowl 43: Prop J, Van Eerden MR, Daan S, Drent RH, Tinbergen JM, StJoseph AM (1980) Ecology of the Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) during the breeding season -Preliminary results from expeditions to Spitsbergen in 1977 and In: Proceedings of the Norwegian-Netherlands Symposium on Svalbard. Arctic Centre, Groningen, pp Prop J, Van Eerden MR, Drent RH (1984) Reproductive success of the Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis in relation to food exploitation on the breeding grounds, western Spitsbergen. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 181: Prop J, Loonen M (1989) Goose flocks and food exploitation: the importance of being first. In: Proc. Int. Ornithol. Congr. 1986, Ottawa. pp Prop J (1991) Food exploitation patterns by Brent Geese Branta bernicla during spring staging. Ardea 79: Prop J, Deerenberg C (1991) Spring staging in Brent Geese Branta bernicla: feeding constraints and the impact of diet on the accumulation of body reserves. Oecologia 87: Prop J, Vulink T (1992) Digestion by barnacle geese in the annual cycle: the interplay between retention time and food quality. Functional Ecology 6: Prop J, De Vries J (1993) Impact of snow and food conditions on the reproductive performance of barnacle geese Branta leucopsis. Ornis Scandinavica 24: Prop J, Black JM (1998) Food intake, body reserves and reproductive success of barnacle geese Branta leucopsis staging in different habitats. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 200: Prop J, Black JM, Shimmings P, Owen M (1998) The spring range of barnacle geese Branta leucopsis in relation to changes in land management and climate. Biological Conservation 86: Prop J, Black JM, Shimmings P (2003) Travel schedules to the high arctic: barnacle geese trade-off the timing of migration with accumulation of fat deposits. Oikos 103: Prop J, Quinn JL (2003) Constrained by available raptor hosts and islands: Density-dependent 283

3 Publications reproductive success in red-breasted geese. Oikos 102: Prop J, Van Marken Lichtenbelt WD, Beekman JH, Faber JF (2004) Using food quality and retention time to predict digestion efficiency in geese. Wildlife Biology Prop J, Quinn JL (submitted) Interference competition, foraging routines and reproductive success in red-breasted geese: fight or flight? Prop J, Drent RH, Owen M (submitted) Survival costs related to the timing of breeding and brood size in Arctic barnacle geese. Prop J, Spaans B (submitted) Deposition of protein stores by pre-migratory brent geese in different habitats. Quinn JL, Kokorev Y, Prop J, Fox N, Black JM (2000) Are Peregrine Falcons in Northern Siberia still affected by organochlorines? In: Meyburg BU, Chancellor RD (Eds) Proceedings of the 5th World Conference on Birds of Prey and Owls, Johannesburg. Hancock publishing, Blaine, Washington. Quinn JL, Prop J, Kokorev Y, Black JM (2003) Predator protection or similar habitat selection in red-breasted goose nesting associations: Extremes along a continuum. Animal Behaviour 65:

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