supported by the Russian Science Foundation(grant number 23-24-00042).
Many bird species use social information to guide territory selection.Different species in different habitats may use both pre-breeding and post-breeding conspecific cues.Abandoned agricultural fields are of particula...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32260127);the Education Department of Hainan Province(HnjgY2022-12);the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320CXTD437);the Hainan Provincial Innovative Research Program for Graduates(Qhys2022-241)。
Adaptive mate choice has been accepted as the leading theory to explain the colorful plumage of birds.This theory hypothesizes that conspicuous colors act as signals to advertise the qualities of the owners.However,a ...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31872231 to DW,No.32000316 to YJ).
The spatial distribution and breeding behavior of neighboring birds(conspecific and heterospecific)may influence reproduction and the effects differ across species.In this study,we investigated intra-and inter-specifi...