the Consejo Nacional de Humanidades,Ciencias y Tecnologías (CONAHCYT)of Mexico for providing funding for graduate studies of X.D.L. (No.001283);El Colegio de la Frontera Sur for PATM graduate fellowship for fieldwork。
Urban environments have challenging characteristics for bird acoustic communication.High levels of anthropogenic noise,as well as vegetation structure(e.g.,in urban parks),can potentially affect the song frequency cha...
Passerines moult during various life-cycle stages.Some of these moults involve the retention of a variable quantity of wing and tail feathers.This prompts the question whether these partial moults are just arrested co...
supported by the European Commission LIFE Ricotí(LIFE15-NAT-ES-000802);LIFE Connect Ricotí(LIFE20-NAT-ES000133)projects;This is a contribution to the Excellence Network Remedinal TE-CM(S2013/MAE2719);JG-C is funded by a Margarita Salas postdoctoral fellowship(CA4/RSUE/2022-00205)。
Parental food provisioning is crucial for the growth and survival of offspring.Growth rate depends on food quality and food supplied to offspring may differ from what adults use for their own.In the case of steppe pas...
funded by two projects in the National Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competition (CGL2014-55969-P and CGL2017-84938-P);a project of the Andalusian Regional Government (A-RNM-48-UGR20);financed with ERDF funds from the European Union (EU);JGB was supported by a FPU pre-doctoral contract from the Spanish Ministry of Education (FPU18/03034);MC by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competition through the SeveroOchoa Programme for Centres of Excellence in Research;Development and Innovation (R+D+I)(SEV-2012-0262),contract No.SVP-2014-068620;JLRS and EP were funded by Erasmus+grants from the EU.
Mediterranean woodland environments are characterised by high spatial and temporal heterogeneity,which means the inhabiting species face a wide variety of selective pressures.Species may respond differently to habitat...
support provided by Facility of Bioscience Applied Techniques of SAIUEx(financed by UEX,Junta de Extremadura,MICINN,FEDER and FSE);funded by Consejería de Economía e Infraestructura of the Junta de Extremadura and the European Regional Development Fund,a Way to Make Europe(research projects IB16121 and IB20089);supported by a postdoctoral grant from the Juan de la Cierva Subprogram(FJCI 2017-34109,MICINN);a postdoctoral contract for scientific excellence in the development of the Plan Propio de I+D+i of the UCLM(co-funded by the European Social Fund Plus(ESF+))。
Avian malaria and related haemosporidian parasites can negatively impact fitness in many songbirds.Research on the malaria infection and its physiological costs on their avian hosts is heavily skewed toward native pas...
Funding was provided by an RAE Improvement Grant to(TCB)from the Faculty of Science at The University of Hong Kong。
Climate change impacts bird migration phenology,causing changes in departure and arrival dates,leading to potential mismatches between migration and other key seasonal constraints.While the impacts of climate change o...
Financial support was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grants 31672296 and 31172104).
Background:Parental investment by birds is limited by the habitat environment,and a male parent increases its effort to reproduce in birds that live in high-altitude areas.Methods:A study of the reproductive behaviour...
supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA19050202];the National Natural Science Foundation of China[31630069];the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)programme[2019QZKK05010112 and 2019QZKK0304];other programs[KGFZD-135-19-05].
Strong correlations between species diversity and climate have been widely observed,but the mechanism underlying this relationship is unclear.Here,we explored the causes of the richness-climate relationships among pas...
financially supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.31470472);the National Undergraduate“Innovation”Project and the Zhejiang Province“Xinmiao”Project
Physiological adaptation arises from several fundamental sources of phenotypic variation. Most analyses of metabolic adaptation in birds have focused on the basal metabolic rate (BMR), the lower limit of avian metab...
By recording nocturnally migrating passerines with tracking radar we have investigated how coastlines affect the migrants' flight paths. Birds could use coastlines as an orientation aid or as a reference cue to compe...