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Breeding biology of the African Pygmy Falcon: long-term variation and seasonal decline in breeding performance of an arid zone raptor

scientific article published in 2023

Brood size manipulations in a spatially and temporally varying environment: male Tengmalm's owls pass increased reproductive costs to offspring

scientific article published on 31 July 2014

Common cuckoo female host selection is not determined by host quality but can affect cuckoo nestling growth when parasitising Common redstarts

Ecological engineering across a spatial gradient: Sociable weaver colonies facilitate animal associations with increasing environmental harshness

scientific article published in 2022

Ecological engineering across a temporal gradient: Sociable weaver colonies create year‐round animal biodiversity hotspots

scientific article published in 2021

Factors associated with leucism in the common blackbird Turdus merula

scientific article published in September 2018

Faunal input at host plants: Can camel thorn trees use nutrients imported by resident sociable weavers?

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Fear factor: prey habitat selection and its consequences in a predation risk landscape

scientific article

First-Time Migration in Juvenile Common Cuckoos Documented by Satellite Tracking

scientific article

Habitat selection as an antipredator behaviour in a multi-predator landscape: all enemies are not equal

scientific article published on 12 November 2009

Higher nest predation risk in association with a top predator: mesopredator attraction?

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

Information collected during the post-breeding season guides future breeding decisions in a migratory bird

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Informed renesting decisions: the effect of nest predation risk

scientific article

Interspecific information on predation risk affects nest site choice in a passerine bird

scientific article published in 2018

Is it interspecific information use or aggression between putative competitors that steers the selection of nest-site characteristics? A reply to Slagsvold and Wiebe

scientific article

Kalahari skinks eavesdrop on sociable weavers to manage predation by pygmy falcons and expand their realized niche

scientific article published in 2020

Land cover change homogenizes functional and phylogenetic diversity within and among African savanna bird assemblages

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Mammalian nest predator feces as a cue in avian habitat selection decisions

scientific article

Manipulating individual decisions and environmental conditions reveal individual quality in decision-making and non-lethal costs of predation risk

scientific article

Maternal food supplementation and perceived predation risk modify egg composition and eggshell traits but not offspring condition

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Physiological stress does not increase with urbanization in European blackbirds: Evidence from hormonal, immunological and cellular indicators

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Positive interactions between migrant and resident birds: testing the heterospecific attraction hypothesis.

scientific article published on 10 January 2003

Positive relationships between association strength and phenotypic similarity characterize the assembly of mixed-species bird flocks worldwide.

scientific article published on 30 October 2012

Predation as a landscape effect: the trading off by prey species between predation risks and protection benefits

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Predation risk effects on fitness related measures in a resident bird

scientific article

Predator encounters have spatially extensive impacts on parental behaviour in a breeding bird community.

scientific article published in March 2016

Predator proximity as a stressor in breeding flycatchers: mass loss, stress protein induction, and elevated provisioning.

scientific article

Qualitative geographical variation in interspecific interactions

scientific article

Risk induced by a native top predator reduces alien mink movements

scientific article published on 2 July 2008

Risk taking in natural predation risk gradients: support for risk allocation from breeding pied flycatchers

scientific article

Social information use is a process across time, space, and ecology, reaching heterospecifics.

scientific article published on July 2007

The drivers and extent of poison use by Namibia's communal farmers: Implications for averting the African vulture crisis

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Urban blackbirds have shorter telomeres

scientific article published in March 2018

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