Influence of Wine Label Imagery: Eye-Tracking Evidence and Regulatory Implications. [PDF]
Drug Alcohol RevABSTRACT Introduction The visual design of alcohol beverage packaging plays a crucial role in shaping consumer perceptions and purchase decisions, yet regulations in many countries are relatively lax. Guidelines often focus on the inclusion of health warnings rather than overall label or packaging design, giving producers considerable freedom.
Droulers O +2 more
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The Hoopoe's Uropygial Gland Hosts a Bacterial Community Influenced by the Living Conditions of the Bird. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Molecular methods have revealed that symbiotic systems involving bacteria are mostly based on whole bacterial communities. Bacterial diversity in hoopoe uropygial gland secretion is known to be mainly composed of certain strains of enterococci, but this ...
Sonia M Rodríguez-Ruano +8 more
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Seasonal Population Fluctuations in Some Non-Passeriformes at Marala Head, Pakistan
Journal of Bioresource Management, 2020 Point count method was used to determine the relative abundance of non-passerine species at Marala wetlands (District Sialkot, Pakistan) during different calendar months between October, 2000 and September, 2001.
Zahid Bhatti, Asad Ghufran, Fakhra Nazir
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Avocetta, 2023 The Pine Processionary Moth (PPM) Thaumetopoea wilkinsoni has long been attacking Mediterranean forests. In its management strategy, Lebanon has focused mainly on pesticides, leaving natural predators as an understudied control option. This study aims to
Leila Rossa Mouawad +5 more
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Antimicrobial activity and genetic profile of Enteroccoci isolated from hoopoes uropygial gland. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Symbiotic microorganisms may be directly transferred from parents to offspring or acquired from a particular environment that animals may be able to select.
Magdalena Ruiz-Rodríguez +7 more
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Predation attempts on Hoopoe Upupa epops nests in a rural Mediterranean area of central Italy
Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology, 2023 Seventeen predation attempts on four Hoopoe Upupa epops nests in an heterogenous agricultural Mediterranean area of central Italy were recorded during breeding seasons 2020-21.
Matteo Annessi, Alessandro Montemaggiori
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Mechanisms Driving Ground-Dwelling Animal Diversity Responses to Urbanization Gradients: A Case Study From the Chuhe River Riparian Zone in Nanjing, China. [PDF]
Ecol EvolSystematic assessment of ground‐dwelling animal diversity responses along urbanization gradients in the Chuhe River riparian zone, Nanjing, China. Integration of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity to comprehensively reveal community changes across different urban gradients.
Chen W, Zhu Q, Yang Y.
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Functional morphological study of the choana in different bird species
Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, 2018 Background The anatomical information about the structure of the choana is lacking in literature, and its role in the olfactory and feeding mechanism is still unknown Results The present study discusses the adaptation of choana to cranial kinesis during ...
Fatma A. Mahmoud +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Research on the mechanisms involved in host location by parasites is of paramount importance and may aid in developing protective measures against them.
Gustavo Tomás +8 more
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Overwinter users of nest cavities affect breeding birds via nest‐dwelling ectoparasites
Ecosphere, 2023 Cavities used for avian reproduction in spring often host other organisms for roosting during winter, which should affect their microclimatic conditions and, then, the patterns of emergence of nest‐dwelling ectoparasites of birds and successful ...
Antonio José García‐Núñez +4 more
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