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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Renewable energy is vital for reducing carbon emissions and yet its infrastructure poses challenges to biodiversity. While the impacts of wind power on bats and raptors are well‐studied, the effects on elusive species remain largely unknown. The Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola, a nocturnal forest bird, performs characteristic courtship flights at ...
Jan O. Engler +6 more
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Females prefer extra-pair males that are older and better hunters [PDF]
, 2015 Age of male is an important cue in mate selection, including extra-pair copulations; different phenotypic and behavioural traits are known to be age related. Paternity studies show that older males predominate as fathers of extra-pair young. It
Antczak, Marcin +2 more
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DiversityHost range expansions are an important factor for shaping the community of associated symbiotic organisms. Birds, as a highly mobile group of animals, are of particular interest to study with respect to the diversity and the distribution of the organisms
Nevena Kolarova +4 more
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Using programmable infusion pump in avian species – a validation methodology in geese
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Wildlife face anthropogenic and natural stressors that affect their physiology and behaviour. The activity of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis and glucocorticoid (GC) production is intrinsically linked with energy regulation and environmental stressors.
Myriam Trottier‐Paquet +5 more
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Isolation of microsatellite loci in the Capricorn silvereye, Zosterops lateralis chlorocephalus (Aves : Zosteropidae) [PDF]
, 2003 The Capricorn silvereye (Zosterops lateralis chlorocephalus ) is ideally suited to investigating the genetic basis of body size evolution. We have isolated and characterized a set of microsatellite markers for this species.
Altschul +13 more
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Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in the Pathogenesis of Atopic Dermatitis
The Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disorder characterized by barrier dysfunction, immune dysregulation, and microbial dysbiosis. Recent studies have highlighted the multifaceted roles of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) both as innate defenders against microbial invasion and as regulators of immune responses and skin barrier ...
Ge Peng +9 more
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The ‘seet’ danger call: an active nest warning in superb fairy-wrens
Royal Society Open ScienceAlarm calls are a common, widely studied antipredator behaviour, with species producing different call types that can have distinct functions. Here, we describe a new type of alarm call in the superb fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), the ‘seet’ danger call ...
Lauren K. Common +4 more
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Fat scoring in four sparrow species as an estimation of body condition: a validation study
Journal of Field Ornithology, 2022 In avian biology, body condition has been positively correlated with survivability, reproduction, migration, and habitat quality. A common method of assessing avian body condition, which typically refers to measures of energy stores, is a qualitative ...
Elizabeth S. Wenker +3 more
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Ecosphere, 2021 Evaluating the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes underlying taxonomic and functional beta diversity is crucial in community ecology, because it can reveal the dominant processes of community assembly.
Xuelian He, Calum Brown, Luxiang Lin
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Fluctuating asymmetry and environmental stress : understanding the role of trait history [PDF]
, 2013 While fluctuating asymmetry (FA; small, random deviations from perfect symmetry in bilaterally symmetrical traits) is widely regarded as a proxy for environmental and genetic stress effects, empirical associations between FA and stress are often weak or ...
Alcantara-Exposito, Angelica +6 more
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