Egg-Laying Synchrony in Gulls

Authors

Jim M. Cushing, The University of ArizonaFollow
Shandelle M. Henson, Andrews UniversityFollow
James L. Hayward, Andrews UniversityFollow

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

6-24-2023

Abstract

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].

Volume

57

First Page

139

Last Page

158

Book Title

Modeling Behavior and Population Dynamics: Seabirds, Seals, and Marine Iguanas

Editor

Jim M. Cushing, Shandelle M. Henson, & James L. Hayward

Publisher

Springer

City

Cham, Switzerland

Series

Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics

ISBN

978-3-031-34283-7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34283-7_8

First Department

Mathematics

Second Department

Biology

Recommended Citation

Cushing, Jim M.; Henson, Shandelle M.; and Hayward, James L., "Egg-Laying Synchrony in Gulls" (2023). Faculty Publications. 5018.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/5018