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A comparison of microsatellite-based pairwise relatedness estimators

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

A parametric model for estimation of dispersal patterns applied to five passerine spatially structured populations.

scientific article published on 12 November 2004

Accounting for interspecific competition and age structure in demographic analyses of density dependence improves predictions of fluctuations in population size

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Adaptive timing of detachment in a tick parasitizing hole-nesting birds.

scientific article published on 9 November 2011

Ancestral origins and invasion pathways in a globally invasive bird correlate with climate and influences from bird trade ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Aposematism and bioluminescence: experimental evidence from glow-worm larvae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

scientific article published in November 1999

Are the specialized bird ticks, Ixodes arboricola and I. frontalis, competent vectors for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato?

scientific article published on 5 December 2013

Artificial nest predation and habitat fragmentation: different trends in bird and mammal predators

scientific article published in 1993

Assessing the effects of climate on host-parasite interactions: a comparative study of European birds and their parasites.

scientific article

Assessing the potential impact of invasive ring-necked parakeets Psittacula krameri on native nuthatches Sitta europeae in Belgium

article

Association between DRD4 gene polymorphism and personality variation in great tits: a test across four wild populations

scientific article

Avian persistence in fragmented rainforest

scientific article

Behavioural synchronization of large-scale animal movements - disperse alone, but migrate together?

scientific article

Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less sensitive to climatic variation

scientific article published on 19 April 2022

Bird species richness in High-Andean forest fragments: habitat quality and topography matter

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

scientific article published in Nature

Climate variation and regional gradients in population dynamics of two hole-nesting passerines.

scientific article

Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: the SPI-Birds data hub

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Conservation biology of birds: Can we bridge the gap between head and heart? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Consistency and variation in the bat assemblages inhabiting two forest islands within a neotropical savanna in Bolivia

scholarly article by Luis F. Aguirre et al published July 2003 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Cooperative breeding shapes post-fledging survival in an Afrotropical forest bird

scientific article

Costs of dispersal.

scientific article

Demographic characteristics and population dynamical patterns of solitary birds

scientific article published in March 2002

Diet contributes to urban-induced alterations in gut microbiota: experimental evidence from a wild passerine

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Differential virulence in two congeneric ticks infesting songbird nestlings ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Dispersal Distances of Nuthatches, Sitta europaea, in a Highly Fragmented Forest Habitat

scientific article published on 16 November 2006

Dispersal and habitat cuing of Eurasian red squirrels in fragmented habitats

article

Diversifying forest communities may change Lyme disease risk: extra dimension to the dilution effect in Europe

scientific article

Do glow‐worm larvae (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) use warning coloration?

scientific article published on 07 July 2008

Do sibling tits (Parus major, P. caeruleus) disperse over similar distances and in similar directions?

scientific article published in December 2004

Dynamics of Gut Microbiota Diversity During the Early Development of an Avian Host: Evidence From a Cross-Foster Experiment

article

Ecological factors that determine Ixodes ricinus tick burdens in the great tit (Parus major), an avian reservoir of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.

scientific article published on 15 April 2013

Effects of habitat fragmentation on foraging behaviour of tits and related species: does niche space vary in relation to size and degree of isolation of forest fragments?

scientific article published on 03 July 2006

Effects of habitat fragmentation on provisioning rates, diet and breeding success in two species of tit (great tit and blue tit).

scientific article published in May 1998

Effects of spatio-temporal variation in food supply on red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris body size and body mass and its consequences for some fitness components

article by Lucas A. Wauters et al published February 2007 in Ecography

Establishment success of invasive ring-necked and monk parakeets in Europe

scientific article

Evaluating least-cost model predictions with empirical dispersal data: A case-study using radiotracking data of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus)

article

Experimental evidence for nest-site competition between invasive ring-necked parakeets (Psittacula krameri) and native nuthatches (Sitta europaea)

article

Experimental study of micro-habitat selection by ixodid ticks feeding on avian hosts

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Fluctuating asymmetry as an indicator of fitness: can we bridge the gap between studies?

scientific article

Genetic equilibrium despite habitat fragmentation in an Afrotropical bird

scientific article published in June 2004

Genetic integration of local dispersal and exploratory behaviour in a wild bird

scientific article published in January 2013

Genetic signature of population fragmentation varies with mobility in seven bird species of a fragmented Kenyan cloud forest

scientific article

Genetics of dispersal.

scientific article

Getting under the birds' skin: tissue tropism of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in naturally and experimentally infected avian hosts

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Glow-worm larvae bioluminescence (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) operates as an aposematic signal upon toads (Bufo bufo)

scientific article published in January 2003

Habitat fragmentation and insect flight: a changing 'design' in a changing landscape?

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Habitat fragmentation shapes natal dispersal and sociality in an Afrotropical cooperative breeder

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Habitat-dependent effects of personality on survival and reproduction in red squirrels

article by Francesca Santicchia et al published 18 July 2018 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Haplotype structure, adaptive history and associations with exploratory behaviour of the DRD4 gene region in four great tit (Parus major) populations

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

Heterogeneous selection on exploration behavior within and among West European populations of a passerine bird

scientific article published in 2021

Host specificity of a bird-specialised endophilic ectoparasite, the tree-hole tick Ixodes arboricola.

scientific article published on 18 September 2014

Human-Mediated Dispersal and the Rewiring of Spatial Networks

scientific article published in 2018

Identifying trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services delivery for land-use decisions

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Inside the guts of the city: Urban-induced alterations of the gut microbiota in a wild passerine.

scientific article

Interaction of climate change with effects of conspecific and heterospecific density on reproduction

scientific article

Invasion success of a global avian invader is explained by within-taxon niche structure and association with humans in the native range

article by Diederik Strubbe et al published 20 March 2015 in Diversity and Distributions

Invasive ring-necked parakeets Psittacula krameri in Belgium: habitat selection and impact on native birds

scientific article published on 31 August 2007

Isolation of Candidatus Rickettsia vini from Belgian Ixodes arboricola ticks and propagation in tick cell lines

scientific article published on 10 July 2020

Kin do not always help: testing multiple hypotheses on nest feeding in a cooperatively breeding bird

scientific article published in 2022

Lack of resistance against the tick Ixodes ricinus in two related passerine bird species.

scientific article

Lethal and sublethal costs of autotomy and predator presence in damselfly larvae

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Life-History Variation Predicts the Effects of Demographic Stochasticity on Avian Population Dynamics

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

Limited diversity associated with duplicated class II MHC-DRB genes in the red squirrel population in the United Kingdom compared with continental Europe

article

Low but contrasting neutral genetic differentiation shaped by winter temperature in European great tits

article

Low probability of a dilution effect for Lyme borreliosis in Belgian forests

article

Male choice for female colour morphs in Ischnura elegans (Odonata, Coenagrionidae): testing the hypotheses

scientific article published on 01 June 1999

Male mating preference in an ixodid tick

scientific article published in 2022

Mate Selection by Male Winter Moths Operophtera Brumata (Lepidoptera, Geometrldae): Adaptive Male Choice or Female Control?

article

Natal dispersal and parental escorting predict relatedness between mates in a passerine bird.

scientific article published in August 2006

Nestling development and the timing of tick attachments

scientific article published on 5 January 2012

Niche conservatism among non-native vertebrates in Europe and North America

scientific article published in 2014

Niche conservatism in non-native birds in Europe: niche unfilling rather than niche expansion

scientific article published in 2013

No sex bias in natal dispersal of Eurasian red squirrels

article

Nonadaptive clutch sizes in tits

scientific article published in Nature

Nuthatch Sitta europaea Demography, Beech Mast, and Territoriality

article by Erik Matthysen published December 1989 in Ornis Scandinavica

Nuthatches (Sitta europaea: Aves) in forest fragments: demography of a patchy population.

scientific article published in June 1999

Patterns of niche conservatism among non-native birds in Europe are dependent on introduction history and selection of variables

Personality and information gathering in free-ranging great tits

scientific article

Personality predicts spatial responses to food manipulations in free-ranging great tits (Parus major).

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Potential tree species extinction, colonization and recruitment in Afromontane forest relicts

article

Predicting the potential distribution of invasive ring-necked parakeets Psittacula krameri in northern Belgium using an ecological niche modelling approach

article

Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite

scientific article published in 2022

Seasonal feeding activity of the tree-hole tick, Ixodes arboricola.

scientific article published on 21 March 2014

Seasonal- and sex-specific correlations between dispersal and exploratory behaviour in the great tit.

scientific article published on 5 September 2013

Selective integration advantages when transience is costly: immigration behaviour in an agrobiont spider

Simple individual-based models effectively represent Afrotropical forest bird movement in complex landscapes

article

Songbirds as general transmitters but selective amplifiers of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genotypes in Ixodes rinicus ticks

scientific article

Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis

scientific article published on 24 June 2024

Testing for effects of climate change on competitive relationships and coexistence between two bird species.

scientific article published in May 2015

The Nuthatches

book by E. Matthysen, 1998

The effect of enemy-release and climate conditions on invasive birds: a regional test using the rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) as a case study

article

The extended Moran effect and large-scale synchronous fluctuations in the size of great tit and blue tit populations

scientific article published in March 2007

The importance of realistic dispersal models in conservation planning: application of a novel modelling platform to evaluate management scenarios in an Afrotropical biodiversity hotspot

scientific article

The price of being bold? Relationship between personality and endoparasitic infection in a tree squirrel

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Thermoregulatory differences between phenotypes in the speckled wood butterfly: hot perchers and cold patrollers?

scientific article published in April 1998

Transmission dynamics of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in a bird tick community

scientific article published on 23 December 2012

Unpunctual in diversity: The effect of stand species richness on spring phenology of deciduous tree stands varies among species and years

scientific article published on 27 March 2024

Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Variable responses to large-scale climate change in European Parus populations

article

Variation in personality and behavioural plasticity across four populations of the great tit Parus major.

scientific article

Virulence of recurrent infestations with Borrelia-infected ticks in a Borrelia-amplifying bird

scientific article

Woodland fragmentation affects space use of Eurasian red squirrels

article by Goedele Verbeylen et al published January 2009 in Acta Oecologica

Woody plant communities of isolated Afromontane cloud forests in Taita Hills, Kenya

article

Year-to-year variation in the density of Ixodes ricinus ticks and the prevalence of the rodent-associated human pathogens Borrelia afzelii and B. miyamotoi in different forest types.

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

The Nuthatches ⬇️

hardcover edition (en)

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