supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32271743,31971545,31071908)。
Urbanization brings new selection pressures to wildlife living in cities,and changes in the life-history traits of urban species can reflect their responses to such pressures.To date,most of the studies investigating ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31971545,31071908)。
Nest predation is an essential factor affecting bird population density,reproductive ecology and life cycle.However,there are still contradictory results about how nest predation pressure changes with urbanization.One...
Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Jukka Jokimaki, Karl Evans and three anonymous referees for helpful comments on the manuscript. We are grateful to many people for kindly reporting the anthropogenic nests of blackbirds and providing help during the study. This study was supported by the Na- tional Natural Science Foundation of China (31071908, 31100394) and the Project-sponsored by SRF for ROCS, SEM (J20130585).
The common blackbird Turdus merula is one of the most highly urbanized bird species. However, to date, the use of anthropogenic structures as nesting sites in the common blackbird is rarely documented, and the factors...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31071908);the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No.Y5090070)
Complete checklist records are essential to understand regional bird diversity and the status of the distribution of birds. The Zhejiang bird checklist was last presented as the Aves Branch of Zhejiang Fauna in 1990. ...