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Bird community effects on avian malaria infections [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2023
In community assembly processes, interspecific interactions play an important role in shaping community diversity, especially at the local scale. Changes in species richness or abundance can modify local infectious disease dynamics, either reducing or ...
Juliana Tamayo-Quintero, Josué Martínez-de la Puente, Miriam San-José, Catalina González-Quevedo, Héctor F. Rivera-Gutiérrez   +4 more
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Changes in a Bird Community in an Agricultural Landscape in Northeast Germany between 1999 and 2015

Land, 2022
Temporal changes in the bird community of an agricultural landscape in northeast Germany were analysed covering three different analytical foci (landscape-wide, habitat types, sample plots) and two aggregation levels of bird observation data (whole bird ...
Alfred Schultz, Michael Glemnitz, Ulrich Stachow, Friederike Schwierz   +3 more
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Plant Invasion-Induced Habitat Changes Impact a Bird Community through the Taxonomic Filtering of Habitat Assemblages [PDF]

Animals
Describing the spatial distribution of communities is crucial to understanding how environmental disturbance can affect biodiversity. Agricultural lands are susceptible to disturbances of anthropogenic origin and have been identified as ecosystems of ...
Emilia Grzędzicka
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Annual Dynamics of Bird Community at a Coastal Wetland and Their Relation to Habitat Types: The Example of Beidagang Wetland, Northern China

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023
In order to provide more scientific guidance for wetland bird protection, this study addressed the dynamics of the bird community sorted by ecotypes, classifications and threat categories from 2015 to 2019, and non-metric multidimensional scaling ...
Mengxuan He, Ziling Dai, Xunqiang Mo, Zhengwang Zhang, Jin Liu, Weipan Lei, Weiqing Meng, Beibei Hu, Wenbin Xu   +8 more
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Urban Bird Community Assembly Mechanisms and Driving Factors in University Campuses in Nanjing, China [PDF]

Animals, 2023
Yong Zhang
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Olfactory camouflage and communication in birds [PDF]

Biological Reviews, 2022
ABSTRACTSmell is a sensory modality that is rarely considered in birds, but evidence is mounting that olfaction is an important aspect of avian behaviour and ecology. The uropygial gland produces an odoriferous secretion (preen oil) that can differ seasonally and between the sexes. These differences are hypothesized to function in olfactory camouflage,
Grieves, Leanne A., Gilles, Marc, Cuthill, Innes C., Székely, Tamás, MacDougall‐Shackleton, Elizabeth A., Caspers, Barbara   +5 more
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Assessing Effects of Multi-Scale Landscape Pattern and Habitats Attributes on Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Urban River Birds

Diversity, 2023
Several studies have revealed that urban rivers with relatively complete habitat structures can support a high level of biodiversity in urban areas. However, few studies have analyzed the impact of the plan, design, and management of multi-scale urban ...
Qian Mao, Jianxin Sun, Yuanyuan Deng, Zhaolu Wu, Haotian Bai   +4 more
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Avian community composition affects ornithophilic mosquito and avian malaria turnover across an interfluvial system in southern Amazonia

Journal of Avian Biology, 2021
Determining the roles of host ecology and geography on the distribution of parasites is an important aim in disease ecology. However, this is extremely challenging for vector transmitted pathogens due to complex host–vector–parasite interactions.
Gabriel M. De La Torre, Karla M. Campião, Jeffrey A. Bell, Allan M. Silva, Alan Fecchio   +4 more
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The Importance of Forest Elephants for Vegetation Structure Modification and Its Influence on the Bird Community of a Mid-Elevation Forest on Mount Cameroon, West-Central Africa

Diversity, 2022
Most of the tropical rainforests are subject to both anthropogenic and natural disturbances. Forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) cause forest clearings within the tropics.
Solange Mekuate Kamga, Simon Awafor Tamungang, Taku Awa, Francis Luma Ewome, Francis Njie Motombi, David Hořák, Jan Riegert   +6 more
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Štruktúra a diverzita hniezdnej ornitocenózy podhorskej obce v Javorníkoch (severozápadné Slovensko) [PDF]

Tichodroma, 2021
Studies of bird assemblage ecology of Slovak suburban sites are uncommon in the Slovak ornithological literature. The objective of this study is to describe basic community characteristics of breeding bird assemblage of a foothills village Veľké Rovné in
Martin KORŇAN
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