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Egg-Laying Synchrony in Gulls

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A wide variety of natural systems exhibit spontaneous oscillator synchrony. In this chapter we use discrete-time mathematical modeling and Monte Carlo methods to provide the first demonstration of synchronous, every-other-day egg laying in seabirds. Along with Chap. 7, this chapter provides background for empirical and theoretical analyses that appear in several of the remaining chapters. The results of this work were initially published in The Auk in 2010 by Shandelle Henson, James Hayward, J. M. Cushing, and Joseph Galusha [11], and in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology in 2017 and 2021 by Gordon Atkins, Ashley Reichert, Hayward, and Henson [1, 2].

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Jim M. Cushing

  2. Department of Mathematics and Department of Biology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA

    Shandelle M. Henson

  3. Department of Biology, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA

    James L. Hayward

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Cushing, J.M., Henson, S.M., Hayward, J.L. (2023). Egg-Laying Synchrony in Gulls. In: Modeling Behavior and Population Dynamics. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 57. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34283-7_8

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