List of works by Liesbeth De Neve

Agonistic behaviour prior to laying predicts clutch size in Eurasian kestrels: an experiment with natural decoys

Ambient light in domed nests and discrimination of foreign egg colors

article by Jesús M. Avilés et al published 20 December 2014 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Bacterial diversity at the cloaca relates to an immune response in magpiePica picaand to body condition of great spotted cuckooClamator glandariusnestlings

Brood mate eviction or brood mate acceptance by brood parasitic nestlings? An experimental study with the non-evictor great spotted cuckoo and its magpie host

scientific article published in 2013

Comparison of digestive efficiency in the parasitic great spotted cuckoo and its magpie host nestlings

Corticosterone levels in host and parasite nestlings: is brood parasitism a hormonal stressor?

scientific article published on 15 February 2012

Differential maternal investment counteracts for late breeding in magpiesPica pica: an experimental study

Do climatic conditions affect host and parasite phenotypes differentially? A case study of magpies and great spotted cuckoos.

scientific article published in February 2014

Do great spotted cuckoo nestlings beg dishonestly?

Do wild-caught urban house sparrows show desensitized stress responses to a novel stressor?

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

Eavesdropping cuckoos: further insights on great spotted cuckoo preference by magpie nests and egg colour

scientific article published on 21 February 2014

Effects of a food supplementation experiment on reproductive investment and a post-mating sexually selected trait in magpiesPica pica

Effects of body size on sex-related migration vary between two closely related gull species with similar size dimorphism

article published in 2011

Effects of early developmental conditions on innate immunity are only evident under favourable adult conditions in zebra finches

scientific article published on 12 November 2011

Effects of maternal carotenoid availability in relation to sex, parasite infection and health status of nestling kestrels (Falco tinnunculus).

scientific article published in May 2008

Factors affecting the escape behaviour of juvenile chinstrap penguins, Pygoscelis antarctica, in response to human disturbance

Great Spotted Cuckoo Nestlings but not Magpie Nestlings Starve in Experimental Age-Matched Broods

Great Spotted Cuckoos Frequently Lay Their Eggs While Their Magpie Host is Incubating

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Great spotted cuckoo fledglings are disadvantaged by magpie host parents when reared together with magpie nestlings

scientific article published in 2013

Great spotted cuckoo fledglings often receive feedings from other magpie adults than their foster parents: which magpies accept to feed foreign cuckoo fledglings?

scientific article

Hatching order and size-dependent mortality in relation to brood sex ratio composition in chinstrap penguins

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Intra-clutch variation in avian eggshell pigmentation covaries with female quality

Intraclutch variation in avian eggshell pigmentation: the anaemia hypothesis

scientific article published on 21 March 2012

Kestrel-prey dynamic in a Mediterranean region: the effect of generalist predation and climatic factors.

scientific article

Manipulation of hunger levels affects great spotted cuckoo and magpie host nestlings differently

Maternal effects reduce oxidative stress in female nestlings under high parasite load

article published in 2012

Mercury (Hg) Uptake Affects the Development of Larus fuscus Chicks

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

Nest size predicts the effect of food supplementation to magpie nestlings on their immunocompetence: an experimental test of nest size indicating parental ability

scientific article published in 2004

Nest-building activity and laying date influence female reproductive investment in magpies: an experimental study

article by Liesbeth De Neve & Juan José Soler published May 2002 in Animal Behaviour

Novel insights into relationships between egg corticosterone and timing of breeding revealed by LC-MS/MS

article by Tom Rosendahl Larsen et al published 1 June 2015 in Journal of Avian Biology

Offspring Hg exposure relates to parental feeding strategies in a generalist bird with strong individual foraging specialization.

scientific article

Pigment limitation and female reproductive characteristics influence egg shell spottiness and ground colour variation in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus)

article by Maria Dolores G. López de Hierro & Liesbeth De Neve published 25 April 2010 in Journal of Ornithology

Predictable food supplies induce plastic shifts in avian scaled body mass

scientific article published in 2016

Recognizing odd smells and ejection of brood parasitic eggs. An experimental test in magpies of a novel defensive trait against brood parasitism

scientific article published on 12 April 2014

Supplementary feeding increases nestling feather corticosterone early in the breeding season in house sparrows

scientific article

The subtidal macrobenthos in the mesohaline part of the Schelde Estuary (Belgium): influenced by man?

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Trade-off between immunocompetence and growth in magpies: an experimental study.

scientific article

Use of LC-MS-MS as an alternative to currently available immunoassay methods to quantitate corticosterone in egg yolk and albumen

scientific article published on 19 November 2014

Variation in innate immunity in relation to ectoparasite load, age and season: a field experiment in great tits (Parus major).

scientific article