DNA Metabarcoding Unveils Habitat-Linked Dietary Variation in Aerial Insectivorous Birds [PDF]
AnimalsThe conversion of tropical forests into urban and agriculture landscapes may alter insect populations through habitat disturbance and impact the diets of aerial insectivores. Most dietary studies on aerial insectivores have limitation on identifying prey
Fatihah Najihah Arazmi +3 more
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Patches of bare ground as a staple commodity for declining ground-foraging insectivorous farmland birds. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 Conceived to combat widescale biodiversity erosion in farmland, agri-environment schemes have largely failed to deliver their promises despite massive financial support.
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Migratory status is not related to the susceptibility to HPAIV H5N1 in an insectivorous passerine species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Migratory birds have evolved elaborate physiological adaptations to travelling, the implications for their susceptibility to avian influenza are however unknown.
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Top-down control of herbivory by birds and bats in the canopy of temperate broad-leaved oaks (Quercus robur). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The intensive foraging of insectivorous birds and bats is well known to reduce the density of arboreal herbivorous arthropods but quantification of collateral leaf damage remains limited for temperate forest canopies.
Stefan M Böhm +2 more
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Disproportionate Declines in Ground-Foraging Insectivorous Birds after Mistletoe Removal. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Insectivorous birds have been recognized as disproportionately sensitive to land-use intensification and habitat loss, with those species feeding primarily on the ground exhibiting some of the most dramatic declines.
David M Watson
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Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Farmers in most western countries have increased use of fertilizer and pesticides with impact on wild animals and plants, including the abundance of insects and their predators.
Anders Pape Møller
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Understanding the influence of marine nutrients on insectivorous and herbivorous reptiles in the Gulf of California islands. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMarine subsidies in the extremely arid islands of the northern Gulf of California have been shown to be important enhancing primary productivity and fueling the terrestrial food webs.
Ilse K Barraza-Soltero +4 more
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Migratory birds benefit from urban environments in a highly anthropized Neotropical region. [PDF]
PLoS ONELand use change from wildlands to urban and productive environments can dramatically transform ecosystem structure and processes. Despite their structural and functional differences from wildlands, human-modified environments offer unique habitat ...
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Neglected Avian Blood Parasites (Onchocercidae and Trypanosomatidae) in Migratory Passerines of the Temperate Zone, Eastern Baltic Region [PDF]
PathogensPasserine birds (n = 3335) of 19 species were caught and investigated for the presence of Trypanosomatidae and Onchocercidae parasites using the buffy coat method, microscopy and PCR in Ventės Ragas, Lithuania.
Rasa Bernotienė +5 more
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Decomposing an elevational gradient in predation by insectivorous birds
EcosphereInsectivorous birds have ecologically important effects on prey abundance, behavior, and evolution, and through top‐down control, birds indirectly reduce herbivory and promote plant growth.
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