Tag: urbanisation

Credit: Grégoire Delanos, Recherche sans filtre, Sorbonne Université, 2024.
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Paler within the city: Across Europe, great tits (Parus major) are paler in more impervious neighbourhoods.

This blog post is provided by Nicolas Bekka and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Paler within the city: carotenoid-based colouration covaries negatively with the proportion of impervious surface in great tit (Parus major) territories across Europe”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, Bekka and colleagues explore how fine-scale urbanisation shapes plumage colour in great tits across six European … Continue reading Paler within the city: Across Europe, great tits (Parus major) are paler in more impervious neighbourhoods.

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Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits: Insights from an egg removal experiment

This blog post is provided by Mark Pitt and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits: Insights from an egg removal experiment” which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. The authors find that urban blue tits lay fewer eggs than their non-urban counterparts, possibly as a response to limited resources. … Continue reading Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits: Insights from an egg removal experiment

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EFFECTS OF CHANGING HABITATS ON BAT-VIRUS DYNAMICS

This blog post is provided by Tamika Lunn, Alison Peel, Hamish McCallum, Peggy Eby, Maureen Kessler, Raina Plowright and Olivier Restif, and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for their article “Spatial dynamics of pathogen transmission in communally roosting species: impacts of changing habitats on bat-virus dynamics”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. A flying-fox hangs from a eucalypt branch, nodding in and out … Continue reading EFFECTS OF CHANGING HABITATS ON BAT-VIRUS DYNAMICS

Unknown's avatarBeth PrestonLeave a comment