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Impact of Environmental Microparticles on Insect Olfaction

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Terrestrial insects underpin key ecosystem services, including pollination, herbivory regulation, decomposition, nutrient cycling, and disease control. These functions depend on chemical communication that guides insects to food, mates, hosts, shelters, and oviposition sites while helping them avoid threats.
Steve B. S. Baleba, Danube K. N. Wandji, Yves H. Tchiechoua, Komi Mensah Agboka, Iman B. Hassaballa, Victor O. Omondi, Beatrice T. Nganso, Saliou Niassy, Souleymane Diallo, Merid N. Getahun   +9 more
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Cortisol concentrations in hair are biomarkers of health status and seasonal change, but not urbanisation, in wolves

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wolves have reclaimed much of their former range in Europe, including areas with a high human footprint, yet the physiological impacts of human‐associated stressors remain poorly understood. We first examined methodological factors affecting hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) in wolves by using a ‘shave/re‐shave' design to assess hair growth rate and ...
Gwendolyn Wirobski, Carmela Musto, Rudy Brogi, Martina Lazzaroni, Rupert Palme, Yasmina Wukovich, Fanni Kertész, Ágnes Szabó, Chiara Garbarino, Marco Gobbi, Lorella Barca, Mauro Delogu, The Wolf Network, Friederike Range, Marco Apollonio, Sarah Marshall‐Pescini   +15 more
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Asian koel rapidly locates host breeding in novel nest sites

Ecology and Evolution
Avian brood parasites depend upon locating host nests to lay their eggs. However, how brood parasites locate host nests and select the nests for parasitism remains poorly studied.
Mominul Islam Nahid, Peter S. Ranke, Wei Liang   +2 more
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Monitoring rodents' life history by body temperature and activity

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
European hamster populations are rapidly declining all over their distribution area. One of the suggested reasons is a strong and ongoing decrease in the reproductive output of about 77% since the nineteen twenties. The cause of this decline is, however, unknown.
S. Monecke, T. Gerrits, R. Brand, R. J. M. Van Kats, T. ter Meulen, P. Pévet, Monika Vadkertikova, Alp Altunkaya, G. J. D. M. Müskens, M. J. J. La Haye   +9 more
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Acoustic Mimicry of Begging Calls and Its Geographical Differentiation in Nestling Common Cuckoos Toward Oriental Reed Warblers 大杜鹃雏鸟对东方大苇莺乞食鸣叫声的声学模仿及其地理分化

Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.
Common cuckoo nestlings from different populations show varying degrees of mimicry of warbler begging calls, with the Yongnianwa population being the most accurate and the Zhalong population the least. Overall, these cuckoos employ a dual strategy: they conservatively mimic the high‐frequency components of host calls while adaptively adjusting their ...
Jiaojiao Wang, Lumeng Xu, Canchao Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond genes‐for‐behaviour: The potential for genomics to resolve long‐standing questions in avian brood parasitism

Ecology and Evolution
Behavioural ecology by definition of its founding ‘Tinbergian framework’ is an integrative field, however, it lags behind in incorporating genomic methods. ‘Finding the gene/s for a behaviour’ is still rarely feasible or cost‐effective in the wild but as
Katja Rönkä, Fabrice Eroukhmanoff, Jonna Kulmuni, Pierre Nouhaud, Rose Thorogood   +4 more
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From nest to parasite: investigating the biology and host–parasite dynamics of Hoplitis laevifrons and Chrysis rufitarsis [PDF]

peer reviewedHoplitis laevifrons (Morawitz) is a groundnesting solitary bee species of the subgenus Pentadentosmia, with limited knowledge regarding its nesting biology, floral preferences, and parasitoids associations.
Cilia, Giovanni, Rosa, Paolo, Flaminio, Simone, Ranalli, Rosa   +3 more
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Historical Development of Zoo Tapir (Tapirus ssp.) Survivorship

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
The survivorship of tapirs in zoos has improved significantly over historical time. ABSTRACT Tapirs (Tapirus spp.) are large, long‐lived herbivores native to Central and South America and Southeast Asia. All species are currently classified as Vulnerable (T. terrestris) or Endangered (other species) in the IUCN SSC Red List.
Johanna E. Wittenberg, Laurie Bingaman Lackey, Jörg Beckmann, Marco Roller, Dennis W. H. Müller, Jan Pluháček, Marcus Clauss, João Pedro Meireles   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

HOST MATTER: Parasite infection drives chemical reconfiguration of decomposing host and shapes insect behavioural responses

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Host–parasite interactions shape ecosystems by driving species dynamics, yet their influence is typically considered in terms of host mortality rather than the chemical environments generated during infection and decomposition.
Andrea Chacon‐Hurtado, Lucie De Wever, Fanny Ruhland, Pierre Hotermans, Clément Martin, Raquel Campos‐Herrera, François J. Verheggen   +6 more
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Successful Brood Parasitism of the Great Spotted Cuckoo on an Alternative Host Species Under Atypical Conditions

Diversity
Avian brood parasites occasionally interact with alternative hosts, providing valuable insights into their behavioral flexibility under atypical environmental conditions.
Guillermo Blanco, Javier Sanz, Pablo Monroy, Arnau Guardia, Óscar Frías, Iñigo Palacios-Martínez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source