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Aerial dispersal plasticity under different wind velocities in a salt marsh wolf spider

scholarly article by Dries Bonte et al published 17 December 2006 in Behavioral Ecology

Age of first breeding interacts with pre- and post-recruitment experience in shaping breeding phenology in a long-lived gull

scientific article

Alternative food sources interfere with removal of a fungal amphibian pathogen by zooplankton

scientific article published on 28 September 2021

Archiving Primary Data: Solutions for Long-Term Studies

scientific article

Assay optimisation and age-related baseline variation in biochemical markers in Lesser Black-backed gulls

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Avian persistence in fragmented rainforest

scientific article

BIOFRAG - a new database for analyzing BIOdiversity responses to forest FRAGmentation.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Biodiversity conservation in the sacred groves of north-west Ethiopia: diversity and community structure of woody species

scientific article published in 2020

Bird surveys for REDD+: avian communities indicate forest degradation in a Peruvian coffee landscape

article by Raf Aerts et al published 9 November 2011 in Nature Precedings

Bird surveys for REDD+: avian communities indicate forest degradation in a Peruvian coffee landscape

article by Raf Aerts et al published 9 November 2011 in Nature Precedings

Body-size shifts in aquatic and terrestrial urban communities

scientific article published in Nature

Breeding habitat loss reveals limited foraging flexibility and increases foraging effort in a colonial breeding seabird

scientific article published on 10 November 2020

Broiler chicken health, welfare and fluctuating asymmetry in organic versus conventional production systems

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Citizen science in action—Evidence for long-term, region-wide House Sparrow declines in Flanders, Belgium

scientific article published in February 2015

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

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Correction: Do wild-caught urban house sparrows show desensitized stress responses to a novel stressor? (doi:10.1242/bio.031849)

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Demography of alpine red squirrel populations in relation to fluctuations in seed crop size

scholarly article by Lucas A. Wauters et al published February 2008 in Ecography

Developmental stability covaries with genome-wide and single-locus heterozygosity in house sparrows.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Direct and indirect effects of metal stress on physiology and life history variation in field populations of a lycosid spider

scientific article

Discrepancies between subgeneric classification and molecular phylogeny of Ceratitis (Diptera: Tephritidae), can the evolution of host use provide some clues?

scientific article published on 27 April 2011

Distinct growth responses to drought for oak and beech in temperate mixed forests

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Do crested tits, Parus cristatus, store more food at northern latitudes?

scientific article published in October 1994

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

scientific article published on 9 April 2018

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

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Effects of Mineral Soil and Forest Floor on the Regeneration of Pedunculate Oak, Beech and Red Oak

article by Stefanie De Groote et al published 27 January 2018 in Forests

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 experimentally sustained elevated testosterone on incubation behaviour and reproductive success in female great tits (Parus major).

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Effects of urbanization on host-pathogen interactions, using Yersinia in house sparrows as a model

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

Evolution along the Great Rift Valley: phenotypic and genetic differentiation of East African white-eyes (Aves, Zosteropidae).

scientific article

Experimental exposure to cadmium affects metallothionein-like protein levels but not survival and growth in wolf spiders from polluted and reference populations

scientific article

Exploring the faecal microbiome of the Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

scientific article

Extinction filters mediate the global effects of habitat fragmentation on animals

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Fluctuating asymmetry and environmental stress: understanding the role of trait history

scientific article

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

scientific article

Food security versus biodiversity protection: an example of land-sharing from East Africa

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Forest fragmentation modulates effects of tree species richness and composition on ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

From Africa to Europe and back: refugia and range shifts cause high genetic differentiation in the Marbled White butterfly Melanargia galathea ⬇️

scientific article

GPS tracking data of Lesser Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls breeding at the southern North Sea coast

scientific article

Genetic equilibrium despite habitat fragmentation in an Afrotropical bird

scientific article published in June 2004

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

scientific article

Geographical variation in wolf spider dispersal behaviour is related to landscape structure

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

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

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

High variation in developmental instability under non-normal developmental error: a Bayesian perspective

scientific article published in October 2005

High-resolution GPS tracking reveals sex differences in migratory behaviour and stopover habitat use in the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus.

scientific article

House Sparrows Do Not Constitute a Significant Salmonella Typhimurium Reservoir across Urban Gradients in Flanders, Belgium

scientific article

How tree species identity and diversity affect light transmittance to the understory in mature temperate forests

scientific article published on 11 November 2017

Importance of Ethiopian shade coffee farms for forest bird conservation

article by Evan R Buechley et al published August 2015 in Biological Conservation

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

scientific article

Integrating context- and stage-dependent effects in studies of frugivorous seed dispersal: an example from south-east Kenya

scholarly article published 27 September 2012

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

Ixodes ricinus nymphs prefer blood with Borrelia infection and low corticosteroid concentration

scientific article published on 3 October 2024

Lack of homeward orientation and increased mobility result in high emigration rates from low-quality fragments in a dune wolf spider

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Land rehabilitation and the conservation of birds in a degraded Afromontane landscape in northern Ethiopia

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Low prevalence of human enteropathogenic Yersinia spp. in brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Flanders

scientific article

Low propensity for aerial dispersal in specialist spiders from fragmented landscapes

scientific article published on 01 August 2003

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

Microclimate limits thermal behaviour favourable to disease control in a nocturnal amphibian

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Mind the gaps when using science to address conservation concerns

Mitigating the impact of microbial pressure on great (Parus major) and blue (Cyanistes caeruleus) tit hatching success through maternal immune investment

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Modelling developmental instability as the joint action of noise and stability: a Bayesian approach

scientific article

Nest predation in a fragmented Afrotropical forest: evidence from natural and artificial nests

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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

Overstorey composition shapes across‐trophic level community relationships in deciduous forest regardless of fragmentation context

scientific article

PRELIMINARY BASELINE SURVEY OF AVIFAUNAL DIVERSITY IN JIMMA ZONE, SOUTH-WESTERN ETHIOPIA

PRELIMINARY BASELINE SURVEY OF AVIFAUNAL DIVERSITY IN JIMMA ZONE, SOUTH-WESTERN ETHIOPIA

scholarly article by Haile Yineger et al published 29 January 2010 in Nature Precedings

Patch quality and connectivity influence spatial dynamics in a dune wolfspider

scientific article published on 4 March 2003

Pervasive effects of dispersal limitation on within- and among-community species richness in agricultural landscapes

article

Plant selection for nest building by western lowland gorillas in Cameroon.

scientific article published on 4 June 2013

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

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Predictable food supplies induce plastic shifts in avian scaled body mass

scientific article published in 2016

Presence of low virulence chytrid fungi could protect European amphibians from more deadly strains

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Prevalence of Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae in commercial poultry, racing pigeons and wild birds in Belgium

scientific article published on 26 January 2016

Quantifying population structure on short timescales

scientific article

Real-world complexity of food security and biodiversity conservation

article published in 2015

Recently-adopted foraging strategies constrain early chick development in a coastal breeding gull

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Sex-biased dispersal at different geographical scales in a cooperative breeder from fragmented rainforest

scientific article

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

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Skin mucosome activity as an indicator of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans susceptibility in salamanders

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Soil Conditions in Natural, Declining and Restored Heathlands Influence Plant-Pollinator Interactions of Calluna vulgaris

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Solutions for Archiving Data in Long-Term Studies: A Reply to Whitlock et al.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Spatial and temporal effects on recruitment of an Afromontane forest tree in a threatened fragmented ecosystem

Spatial heterogeneity in genetic relatedness among house sparrows along an urban-rural gradient as revealed by individual-based analysis.

scientific article published on 18 October 2011

Spatial patterns of weed dispersal by wintering gulls within and beyond an agricultural landscape

scientific article

Starvation affects pre-dispersal behaviour of Erigone spiders

scientific article published in 2008

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

scientific article

Support for the habitat amount hypothesis from a global synthesis of species density studies

scientific article published on 11 February 2020

Systematics of the olive thrush Turdus olivaceus species complex with reference to the taxonomic status of the endangered Taita thrush T. helleri

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The distribution of plant consumption traits across habitat types and the patterns of fruit availability suggest a mechanism of coexistence of two sympatric frugivorous mammals

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The effect of forest structural complexity on tick-borne pathogens in questing ticks and small mammals

scientific article published in June 2024

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

Thermal conditions during juvenile development affect adult dispersal in a spider

scientific article

Time and energy costs of different foraging choices in an avian generalist species

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Towards more equal footing in north–south biodiversity research: European and sub-Saharan viewpoints

Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS): Building a data-driven framework to inform policy

scientific article published on 02 May 2017

Urbanization drives community shifts towards thermophilic and dispersive species at local and landscape scales.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

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 behavioral traits of two frugivorous mammals may lead to differential responses to human disturbance

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

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

scientific article

Web building flexibility of an orb-web spider in a heterogeneous agricultural landscape

article published in 2008

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

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