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Suite à la publication par l’UICN du standard international sur les Solutions fondées sur la Nature, le Comité français de l’UICN présente un guide d’appropriation de ce standard, structuré en 8 questions clés à se poser pour mettre en œuvre des[...]Article
Leo Joseph, Auteur ; Gaynor Dolman, Auteur ; Bulisa Iova, Auteur ; Knud Jønsson, Auteur ; Catriona D. Campbell, Auteur ; Ian Mason, Auteur ; Alex Drew, AuteurTwo species of orioles, namely the Olive-backed Oriole (Oriolus sagittatus) and the Yellow Oriole (O. flavocinctus), occur across northern Australia. In New Guinea, both are confined to the Trans-Fly region immediately north of Cape York Peninsu[...]Article
Tania De Almeida, Auteur ; François Mesléard, Auteur ; M. Santonja, Auteur ; Raphael Gros, Auteur ; Thierry Dutoit, Auteur ; O. Blight, AuteurWithin a local assemblage, ecosystem engineers can have major impacts on population dynamics, community composition and ecosystem functions by transforming or creating new habitats. They act as an ecological filter altering community composition[...]Article
Piotr P. Kazimirski, Auteur ; Mikołaj Kaczmarski, Auteur ; Magdalena M. Zagalska-Neubauer, Auteur ; Katarzyna M. Żołnierowicz, Auteur ; Marcin Tobółka, AuteurCapsuleThere were no statistically significant differences in digit ratio between male and female chicks of the White Stork Ciconia ciconia.AimsTo test the hypothesis that the ratio of digit lengths was related to sex in White Stork nestlings, a[...]Article
Breno Dias Vitorino, Auteur ; Angélica Vilas Boas Da Frota, Auteur ; Josué Ribeiro Da Silva Nunes, Auteur ; Maria Antonia Carniello, Auteur ; Solange Kimie Ikeda Castrillon, Auteur ; Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama, AuteurFrugivorous birds assume different roles in the organization of seed dispersal networks depending on how they interact with plants. Identifying the birds with the most important structural roles can shed light on how seed dispersal systems funct[...]Article
Callie F. Gesmundo, Auteur ; Zachary M. Pohlen, Auteur ; K. Varinia Sagastume-Pinto, Auteur ; Bianca Bosarreyes, Auteur ; Martin Robards, Auteur ; Roan McNab, Auteur ; José F. Moreira-Ramírez, Auteur ; Rebecca L. McGuire, AuteurArticle
Alicia K. Andes, Auteur ; Terry L. Shaffer, Auteur ; Mark H. Sherfy, Auteur ; Chantel M. Hofer, Auteur ; Colin M. Dovichin, Auteur ; Susan N. Ellis‐Felege, AuteurFor federally listed species such as Least Tern Sternula antillarum and Piping Plover Charadrius melodus, correct determination of nest fates and causes of nest failure is crucial for understanding population dynamics and improving monitoring pr[...]Article
Aleksandra Wróbel, Auteur ; Przemysław Kurek, Auteur ; Dorota Dobrowolska, AuteurSeed hoarding by granivorous animals requires cache-protection strategies which allow to protect hoarded seeds against pilferage. This study reports the first case of acorn hoarding in tree cavities by Eurasian Jays (Garrulus glandarius). Out of[...]Article
Marco Dragonetti, Auteur ; Massimo Caprara, Auteur ; Felipe Rodríguez-Godoy, Auteur ; Rubén Barone, Auteur ; V. Rubén Cerdeña, Auteur ; Dimitri Giunchi, AuteurCapsule Acoustic analysis does not support the elevation of Central and Western Canary Islands subspecies of the Eurasian Stone-curlew Burhinus oedicnemus distinctus to full species.Aims To verify whether the vocal repertoires of Eurasian Stone-[...]Article
David E. Gammons, Auteur ; R. Patrick Lyon, AuteurDans Ardea (105(1) 2017)In this descriptive study we performed an, acoustic comparison of mimetic and non-mimetic song in a highly conspicuous mimic, the Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos. Using automated acoustic software.we measured 13 acoustic features from the[...]Article
Alejandro Ariel Ríos-Chelén, Auteur ; Xhareni Díaz-Lezama, Auteur ; Bibiana Montoya, AuteurWe quantified variation at the individual, pair and sex levels in acoustic attributes of Vermilion Flycatcher (Pyrocephalus rubinus)’s peent calls. We recorded calls of 15 pairs during the breeding season, and analyzed seven acoustic measures en[...]Article
Gerson M. Muzzi, Auteur ; Marina H.L Duarte, Auteur ; Nathália O. Braga, Auteur ; Rogério P. Bastos, Auteur ; Luciana B. Nascimento, AuteurVocalisation is the main form of communication in frogs. These signals have different social structures and functions. Road noise has increased over the past few decades to the point where it can mask acoustic signals with impacts for animal com[...]Article
Alberto De Rosa, Auteur ; Isabel Castro, Auteur ; Stephen Marsland, AuteurDans Ibis (164(2) 2022)Acoustic playback is commonly used to study wild birds, with applications as diverse as investigating behaviours, ascertaining the presence of rare and elusive species, and attracting individuals to a location. The number of studies employing pl[...]Article
Sabine Baumann, Auteur ; Ulf Beichle, AuteurThe Tooth-billed Pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris) was classified as critically endangered in 2014. A Manumea Recovery Plan 2006–2016 was implemented by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of Samoa (MNRE in Recovery plan for the Ma[...]Article
Maria Perez Tadeo, Auteur ; Martin Gammell, AuteurDans Wildfowl (68 2018)Activity budgets of Light-bellied Brent Geese Branta bernicla bran wintering in Ireland were compared at different sites and associated habitats along the coast of inner Galway Bay. Hourly energy expenditure (HEE) by birds feeding on traditional[...]Article
Eve Mannings, Auteur ; Francesca Servini, Auteur ; Benjamin Tapley, Auteur ; Christopher J. Michaels, AuteurMountain chicken frogs Leptodactylus fallax are assessed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List due to threats including chytridiomycosis and habitat loss. Ex-situ populations underpin species survival, but captive management is hampered [...]Article
Josh Nightingale, Auteur ; Dave Stevenson, Auteur ; Ed Rowsell, AuteurFor wader conservation in the Solent, UK, two ongoing changes are of particular concern: the increase in artificial flood-defence infrastructure, and increasing sea levels. This study describes the ecology of a small population of Purple Sandpip[...]Article
David Aubin, Auteur ; Cécile Riche, Auteur ; Vincent Vande Water, Auteur ; Isabelle La Jeunesse, AuteurClimate change exacerbates climate variability, and makes water governance more complex. The French local water management plans (SAGE) developed an integrated approach that relies on a balance between bottom-up and top-down governance. The aim [...]Article
Elise Isabella Macqueen, Auteur ; Graeme Douglas Ruxton, AuteurSeveral bird species construct multiple nests within a single breeding season that are not used for egg-laying. This behaviour has puzzled researchers for over 100 years, as nests are costly in time and energy to build, and there is no apparent [...]Article
Utku Perktaş, Auteur ; Thilina N. de Silva, Auteur ; Esther Quintero, Auteur ; Cagatay Tavsanoglu, AuteurCapsule: This study documents evidence of interglacial refugia during the Last Interglacial for birds in the Mediterranean region, and emphasizes the importance of the Last Interglacial on the geographic distribution and genetic structure of Med[...]Article
David Cunillera‐Montcusí, Auteur ; Matias Arim, Auteur ; Stéphanie Gascón, Auteur ; Irene Tornero, Auteur ; Jordi Sala, Auteur ; Dani Boix, Auteur ; Ana Inés Borthagaray, Auteur ; Carola Gómez‐Rodríguez, AuteurMediterranean ecosystems are increasingly threatened by disturbances such as wildfires. These disturbances are expected to shift the selective pressures that determine trait-dependent community assembly. In addition, the stochasticity in species[...]Article
Stéphane Duchateau, Auteur ; Gonzalo Chéliz, Auteur ; Juan Antonio Gil, Auteur ; Pascual López-López, AuteurDans Ibis (164(2) 2022)Cosmetic coloration is not a common phenomenon among bird species. Adult Bearded Vultures Gypaetus barbatus typically show orange coloration in head, chest, belly and tarsus feathers that is the result of mud baths in ferruginous substrates. Sev[...]Article
Mitch D. Weegman, Auteur ; Alyn J. Walsh, Auteur ; Malcolm Alexander Ogilvie, Auteur ; Stuart Bearhop, Auteur ; Geoff M. Hilton, Auteur ; David J. Hodgson, Auteur ; Anthony David Fox, AuteurDans Ibis (164(2) 2022)Population growth rates in geese can be sensitive to small changes in survival and/or production of young, and understanding which demographic rates explain more variation in population change can be crucial for implementing effective conservati[...]Article
Michael Brooks, Auteur ; Sanjo Rose, Auteur ; Res Altwegg, Auteur ; Alan TK Lee, Auteur ; Henk Nel, Auteur ; Ulf Ottosson, Auteur ; Ernst Retief, Auteur ; Chevonne Reynolds, Auteur ; Peter G Ryan, Auteur ; Sidney Shema, Auteur ; Talatu Tende, Auteur ; Les G Underhill, Auteur ; Robert L Thomson, AuteurThe African Bird Atlas Project (ABAP) is a citizen-science bird-monitoring programme that relies on a robust, repeatable protocol (BirdMap) and allows insights into the distributions of African birds and their conservation. The protocol involves[...]Article
Ant-following birds have been studied extensively in the Neotropics, but much less information is currently available for the Afrotropics. There are published records of 168 African bird species from 37 families foraging in association with driv[...]Article
Sedat Gündoğdu, Auteur ; Makbule Baylan, AuteurWe collected data on the age at maturity (tm) and maximum reported age (tmax) for 153 stocks of marine fishes in Turkey, belonging to 59 species, 24 families and 2 classes (Actinopterygii and Elasmobranchii). Among Actinopterygii tm had an avera[...]Article
Johann H. van Niekerk, AuteurThis paper describes the plumage and morphology development of 11 age classes of Red-necked Spurfowl Pternistis afer to assist with field observations. Sixteen spurfowl were marked with coloured leg rings in the Cannon Rocks Holiday Resort, East[...]Article
Pablo Santonja, Auteur ; Irene Mestre, Auteur ; Scott Weidensaul, Auteur ; David Brinker, Auteur ; Steve Huy, Auteur ; Norman Smith, Auteur ; Tom Mcdonald, Auteur ; Mike Blom, Auteur ; Dan Zazelenchuck, Auteur ; Drew Weber, Auteur ; Gilles Gauthier, Auteur ; Nicolas Lecomte, Auteur ; Jean-François Therrien, AuteurPatterns of winter irruptions in several owl species apparently follow the 'lack of food' hypothesis, which predicts that individuals leave their breeding grounds in search of food when prey populations do not allow breeding and are too small to[...]Article
Kamila Gach, Auteur ; Tomasz Janiszewski, Auteur ; Radoslaw Wlodarczyk, Auteur ; Bartosz Lesner, Auteur ; Piotr Minias, AuteurThe aim of this study was to evaluate which factors determined immediate mortality of Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) chicks during a heavy rainfall. On 26 June 2013, a heavy rainfall event was recorded at an inland colony of Common Terns in centra[...]Article
Piotr Piliczewski, Auteur ; Łukasz Jankowiak, Auteur ; Dariusz Wysocki, AuteurCapsule: A 19-year study of European Blackbirds Turdus merula confirms that senescence is associated with a decrease in condition measured by wing length but bills become progressively longer with age.Aims: To explore the correlations between bi[...]Article
Mo A. Verhoeven, Auteur ; A. H. Jelle Loonstra, Auteur ; Alice D. McBride, Auteur ; Wiebe Kaspersma, Auteur ; Jos C. E. W. Hooijmeijer, Auteur ; Christiaan Both, Auteur ; Nathan R. Senner, Auteur ; Theunis Piersma, AuteurLongitudinal tracking studies have revealed consistent differences in the migration patterns of individuals from the same populations. The sources or processes causing this individual variation are largely unresolved. As a result, it is mostly u[...]Article
Kevin D. Kohl, Auteur ; Antonio Brun, Auteur ; Enrique Caviedes-Vidal, Auteur ; William H. Karasov, AuteurHere, we document the development of the House Sparrow Passer domesticus gut microbiota for the benefit of future ecological and evolutionary studies in this widely used avian system. We collected and inventoried luminal and mucosal samples from[...]Article
Sarah K. Faegre, Auteur ; Lindsey Nietmann, Auteur ; Phillip Hannon, Auteur ; James C. Ha, Auteur ; Renee R. Ha, AuteurKnowledge of foraging behavior across life stages of endangered species is important for identifying potential drivers of age-dependent mortality. Juvenile mortality is a primary threat to the persistence of the single remaining Mariana Crow (Co[...]Article
Ayfer Şirin, Auteur ; Eyup Baskale, AuteurThe Mediterranean coast of Turkey includes important nesting beaches and marine habitats for the Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta). We studied the demographic structure of this population by applying the skeletochronological method on stranded[...]Article
Gregory Deso, Auteur ; Aloys Crouzet, AuteurDue to environmental constraints, winter aggregations of squamates otherwise considered solitary are becoming increasingly common worldwide (Gardner et al., 2015). Community aggregations in lizards are little known and probably underestimated a[...]Article
Ivana Novcic, AuteurThe objective of this study was to examine aggressive behavior of shorebirds during spring stopover on beaches and other stopover habitats in Delaware Bay, New Jersey, USA. More aggressive interactions were observed between members of the same s[...]Article
Fabian A. Boetzl, Auteur ; Elena Krimmer, Auteur ; Jochen Krauss, Auteur ; Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, AuteurRising demands for agricultural products and high environmental costs of intensive agriculture reinforce the need for ecological replacements in agricultural management. In Europe, agri-environmental schemes (AES) are implemented to enhance spec[...]Article
Nicholas A. Mason, Auteur ; Philip Unitt, Auteur ; Jed P. Sparks, AuteurAgriculture can dramatically alter community composition, food webs, and resource availability, yet the impacts of agriculture on many ecosystems and their constituents remain unstudied. Here, we examined the effect of agriculture on the isotopi[...]Article
Allison R. Fuller, Auteur ; Gerard J. McChesney, Auteur ; Richard T. Golightly, AuteurDevil's Slide Rock, a rock sea stack on the central California coast near San Francisco, USA, hosts a Common Murre (Uria aalge) colony that was recently restored after it was extirpated in the mid-1980s. Since the late 1990s, low-flying aircraft[...]Article
Thierry Durand, Auteur ; Olivier Fleury, Auteur ; Marie Heuret, Auteur ; Thierry Mougey, Auteur ; Christian Schwoehrer, Auteur ; Marion Vittecoq, AuteurOne health and Ecohealth in protected areas in France Protected areas (PAs) are intended to preserve the health of humans, animals and ecosystems and to meet the global challenges of biodiversity and climate change. The key role of French PAs as[...]Article
Juan C. Alonso, Auteur ; Carlos Palacín, AuteurSince 2005, the world population of Great Bustards Otis tarda has decreased at an annual rate of 3.23%. The current world total is estimated at 31,000–36,000 birds, 34% (range 30–38%) less than 16 years ago. The declines have been observed in ni[...]Article
José P. Granadeiro, Auteur ; Letizia Campioni, Auteur ; Paulo Catry, AuteurTracking studies of seabirds have generally focused in identifying areas used for foraging, in the hope of highlighting regions of energy transfer which may be important for seabird and general ecosystem conservation and special management. Howe[...]Article
The American bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus has a natural distribution in North America, but was spread by human activities in different regions around the world. It is listed as the most invasive amphibian species, affecting terrestrial and a[...]Article
Manon C.M. Hess, Auteur ; François Mesléard, Auteur ; Truman P. Young, Auteur ; Benoit de Freitas, Auteur ; Nathan Haveneers, Auteur ; Elise Buisson, AuteurUnderstanding the determinants of early invasion resistance is a major challenge for designing plant communities that efficiently repel invaders. Recent evidence highlighted the significant role of priority effects in early community assembly as t[...]