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A bird in the hand: Global‐scale morphological trait datasets open new frontiers of ecology, evolution and ecosystem science

scientific article

A comprehensive molecular phylogeny for the hornbills (Aves: Bucerotidae).

scientific article

A large-scale assessment of plant dispersal mode and seed traits across human-modified Amazonian forests ⬇️

journal article from 'Journal of Ecology'

A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification

scientific article published on 10 February 2024

A test of Darwin’s naturalization conundrum in birds reveals enhanced invasion success in the presence of close relatives

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

scientific article

Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems

scientific article published in 2023

Applying habitat and population-density models to land-cover time series to inform IUCN Red List assessments

scientific article published on 25 February 2019

Assessing taxonomic and functional change in British breeding bird assemblages over time

scientific article published on 23 February 2022

Assessing tropical forest restoration after fire using birds as indicators: An afrotropical case study

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

Asymmetric territorial contests in the European robin: the role of settlement costs

scientific article published in July 1997

Avian Diversity: Speciation, Macroevolution, and Ecological Function

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Avian egg shape: Form, function, and evolution

scientific article published in June 2017

Behavior influences range limits and patterns of coexistence across an elevational gradient in tropical birds

scientific article published on 13 July 2019

Biodiversity in the Anthropocene: prospects and policy

scientific article published in December 2016

Biodiversity: Hidden impacts of logging

scientific article published on July 2015

Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment.

scientific article published in September 2017

Bird conservation in tropical ecosystems

Birds optimize fruit size consumed near their geographic range limits

scientific article published on 19 July 2024

Captive rearing experiments confirm song development without learning in a tracheophone suboscine bird

scientific article

Causes and Consequences of Behavioral Interference between Species

scientific article

Character displacement from the receiver's perspective: species and mate recognition despite convergent signals in suboscine birds

scientific article published on 7 April 2010

Climate-driven variation in dispersal ability predicts responses to forest fragmentation in birds

scientific article published on 29 May 2023

Comment on "The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammals".

scientific article

Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes

scientific article published in April 2024

Condition, not eyespan, predicts contest outcome in female stalk-eyed flies, Teleopsis dalmanni

scientific article published on 8 April 2015

Constraints on avian seed dispersal reduce potential for resilience in degraded tropical forests

scientific article published on 16 November 2023

Contrasting Patterns of Species Richness and Functional Diversity in Bird Communities of East African Cloud Forest Fragments

scientific article

Contrasting impacts of competition on ecological and social trait evolution in songbirds

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Correlated evolution of beak morphology and song in the neotropical woodcreeper radiation

scientific article

Corrigendum: Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Developing a national indicator of functional connectivity

scientific article published in March 2022

Dietary niche and the evolution of cranial morphology in birds

scientific article published in 2019

Dispersal and the transition to sympatry in vertebrates

scientific article

Distribution, Behavior, and Conservation Status of the Rufous Twistwing (Cnipodectes superrufus)

Distribution, ecology and conservation status of the Blue-headed Macaw Primolius couloni

article

Diversification by host switching and dispersal shaped the diversity and distribution of avian malaria parasites in Amazonia

scholarly article by Alan Fecchio et al published 23 March 2018 in Oikos

Diversity and extinction risk are inversely related at a global scale

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Diversity of response and effect traits provides complementary information about avian community dynamics linked to ecological function

scientific article published on 19 June 2021

Duets defend mates in a suboscine passerine, the warbling antbird (Hypocnemis cantator)

scientific article published in 2005

Ecological Correlates of Elevational Range Shifts in Tropical Birds

scientific article published on 12 April 2021

Ecological and morphological determinants of evolutionary diversification in Darwin's finches and their relatives

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Ecological drivers of song evolution in birds: Disentangling the effects of habitat and morphology.

scientific article published on 13 January 2018

Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey

scientific article published in 2015

Energetic Constraints on Species Coexistence in Birds

scientific article

Environmental stability and the evolution of cooperative breeding in hornbills

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2013)

Environmentally and behaviourally mediated co-occurrence of functional traits in bird communities of tropical forest fragments

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

Evolution of avian egg shape: underlying mechanisms and the importance of taxonomic scale

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Flight range, fuel load and the impact of climate change on the journeys of migrant birds

scientific article published in February 2018

Functional traits reveal the expansion and packing of ecological niche space underlying an elevational diversity gradient in passerine birds

scientific article published in January 2016

Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: Implications for ecosystem function and conservation

article

Global plant‐frugivore trait matching is shaped by climate and biogeographic history

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Habitat fragmentation narrows the distribution of avian functional traits associated with seed dispersal in tropical forest

scientific article published on 31 March 2018

Host associations and turnover of haemosporidian parasites in manakins (Aves: Pipridae).

scientific article

How do seemingly non-vagile clades accomplish trans-marine dispersal? Trait and dispersal evolution in the landfowl (Aves: Galliformes).

scientific article

Human Vision Can Provide a Valid Proxy for Avian Perception of Sexual Dichromatism

scientific article published in 2010

Identifying the Drivers of Spatial Taxonomic and Functional Beta-Diversity of British Breeding Birds

scientific article

Immigration and dispersal are key determinants of cultural diversity in a songbird population

scientific article published in 2014

Improving Predictions of Climate Change-Land Use Change Interactions

scientific article published on 02 October 2020

Integrating behaviour and ecology into global biodiversity conservation strategies

scientific article published on 29 July 2019

Land-sparing agriculture sustains higher levels of avian functional diversity than land sharing

scientific article published on 13 March 2019

Loss of functional diversity through anthropogenic extinctions of island birds is not offset by biotic invasions ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 November 2021

Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Maintaining ecosystem function and services in logged tropical forests

scientific article

Male heterozygosity predicts territory size, song structure and reproductive success in a cooperatively breeding bird

article

Mating system, philopatry and patterns of kinship in the cooperatively breeding subdesert mesite Monias benschi.

scientific article published on October 2005

Mediation of area and edge effects in forest fragments by adjacent land use

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Movement ecology of Afrotropical birds: Functional traits provide complementary insights to species identity

scientific article published on 13 September 2019

Multi-modal signal evolution in birds: re-examining a standard proxy for sexual selection

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Performance of a points-based scoring system for assessing species limits in birds

scientific article published on 6 April 2021

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Quantifying species contributions to ecosystem processes: a global assessment of functional trait and phylogenetic metrics across avian seed-dispersal networks

scientific article published in December 2016

Range-wide spatial mapping reveals convergent character displacement of bird song

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Sexual selection accelerates signal evolution during speciation in birds

scientific article published on 17 July 2013

Sexual selection and ecological generalism are correlated in antbirds.

scientific article published on 29 January 2009

Sexual selection, speciation and constraints on geographical range overlap in birds

scientific article

Sexually Selected Traits Predict Patterns of Species Richness in a Diverse Clade of Suboscine Birds

article

Sexually selected traits predict patterns of species richness in a diverse clade of suboscine birds.

scientific article

Signal design and perception in Hypocnemis antbirds: evidence for convergent evolution via social selection

scientific article published on 30 July 2009

Signal jamming mediates sexual conflict in a duetting bird

scientific article published on 12 March 2009

Song divergence by sensory drive in Amazonian birds

scientific article published on 19 August 2010

Song evolution, speciation, and vocal learning in passerine birds

scientific article published on 24 December 2016

Species coexistence and the dynamics of phenotypic evolution in adaptive radiation

scientific article

Species interactions and the structure of complex communication networks

scientific article

Species interactions constrain geographic range expansion over evolutionary time

scientific article

Species interactions regulate the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystem function in tropical forest fragments

scientific article published in October 2015

Sperm and sex peptide stimulate aggression in female Drosophila.

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds

scientific article published on 24 August 2021

Tempo and timing of ecological trait divergence in bird speciation

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Territoriality as a paternity guard in the European robin, Erithacus rubecula

scientific article published on 01 August 2000

Territoriality, Social Bonds, and the Evolution of Communal Signaling in Birds

scientific article published in 2016

The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

The evolution of female ornaments and weaponry: social selection, sexual selection and ecological competition

scientific article

The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates

scientific article

The island rule explains consistent patterns of body size evolution across terrestrial vertebrates

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

The latitudinal gradient in dispersal constraints: ecological specialisation drives diversification in tropical birds

scientific article

The latitudinal gradient in rates of evolution for bird beaks, a species interaction trait

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds

article

The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity

scientific article published in 2022

Trait-based indicators of bird species sensitivity to habitat loss are effective within but not across datasets

scientific article published on 30 October 2017

Trophic niche shifts and phenotypic trait evolution are largely decoupled in Australasian parrots

scientific article published on 27 November 2021

Unraveling the interplay of community assembly processes acting on multiple niche axes across spatial scales

scientific article published in October 2014

Using avian functional traits to assess the impact of land-cover change on ecosystem processes linked to resilience in tropical forests

scientific article published in December 2016

Using learning networks to understand complex systems: a case study of biological, geophysical and social research in the Amazon

scientific article

VOCAL COMMUNICATION IN THE PALE-WINGED TRUMPETER (PSOPHIA LEUCOPTERA): REPERTOIRE, CONTEXT AND FUNCTIONAL REFERENCE

article

Weak asymmetric interspecific aggression and divergent habitat preferences at an elevational contact zone between tropical songbirds

scientific article published on 26 October 2019

Widespread correlations between climatic niche evolution and species diversification in birds

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

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