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Current Biology, 2016 Shinichi Nakagawa and Joel Pick introduce what we can learn from house sparrows.
Shinichi, Nakagawa, Joel L, Pick
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Species with similar ecological characters often compete with each other; however, a species may also facilitate the survival or reproduction of another ecologically similar species, although such interaction is rarely documented in birds.
Jing‐Chia Guo +5 more
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Assessment of house sparrows passer domesticus damage to single and double winter cultivations under field conditions [PDF]
Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019 The ultimate goal of this study is to find out the most suitable combinations of adjacent crops that reduce house sparrows damage. The experiments were established using single and double combinations of four wintery crops. Namely, soft wheat, hard wheat,
Norhan Yacoub +3 more
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Birds, 2021 In recent decades, there has been a decline of the House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), mainly in European cities, and several hypotheses have been proposed that attempt to determine the causes of this rapid decline.
Alfonso Balmori
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Diet contributes to urban-induced alterations in gut microbiota : experimental evidence from a wild passerine [PDF]
, 2020 Urban sprawl increasingly affects the ecology of natural populations, including host-microbiota interactions, with observed differences in the gut microbiota between urban and rural hosts.
De Neve, Liesbeth +5 more
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Avian malaria-mediated population decline of a widespread iconic bird species [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Parasites have the capacity to affect animal populations by modifying host survival, and it is increasingly recognized that infectious disease can negatively impact biodiversity.
Daria Dadam +6 more
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Population Flux of the House Sparrow Passer domesticusLinnaeus 1758 in Chinnamanur Town, Uthamapalayam Taluk of Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India [PDF]
Journal of Tropical Life Science, 2021 A thorough study of house sparrow behaviour and its population is essential to revive its population status which is the need at the moment. Therefore, the sparrow popula-tion's nature,nests, water and food sources, interspecific competitions, and noise ...
Mohamed Meeran +5 more
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The house sparrow in the service of basic and applied biology
eLife, 2020 From the northernmost tip of Scandinavia to the southernmost corner of Patagonia, and across six continents, house sparrows (Passer domesticus) inhabit most human-modified habitats of the globe.
Haley E Hanson +3 more
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Italian Journal of Food Safety, 2014 Wild birds are potential vehicles of zoonotic pathogen transmission to humans. The zoonotic concern increases for small wild birds like house sparrows (Passer domesticus) and starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) which are hunted in developing countries and ...
Frédérique Pasquali +3 more
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Avian Malaria Among House Sparrows: a Survey of Disease and Mosquito Vectors (Diptera: Culicidae) in Reed City, Michigan [PDF]
, 2017 Nine of 350 house sparrows caught in Reed City, Michigan, had malaria parasites detectable on Giemsa-stained thin films. All of the infected birds were juveniles, Parasitemias were too low to permit identification of the Plasmodium present. Collection of
Freier, Jerome E, Gogolin, Luanne R
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