23 documents found, page 1 of 3
Age mediates access to landfill food resources and foraging proficiency in a lo...
Martins, Bruno Herlander; Soriano-Redondo, Andrea; Franco, Aldina M.A.; Catry, InêsHuman activities have altered the availability of resources for wildlife. Landfill sites now provide abundant and predictable anthropogenic food subsidies worldwide, sustaining increasing numbers of opportunistic species and shaping their foraging behaviour. However, although individuals may differ in their ability to use these resources, the factors influencing this variability within species are still poorly ...
Grassland vegetation height affects bird responses to forest edges in Mediterra...
Faria, João; Reino, Luís; Beja, Pedro; Gonçalves, David; Sánchez-Oliver, Juan S.; Moreira, Francisco; Catry, Inês; Rotenberry, John T.; Morgado, RuiAfforestation affects Mediterranean farmland biodiversity due to loss and fragmentation of grassland habitats. While the influence of landscape context and plantation edges on farmland bird responses to afforestation is well-documented, less is known about the influence of grassland vegetation height and how it interacts with afforestation to influence bird communities. Here, we examined how changes in grasslan...
The effect of climate change on avian offspring production: A global meta-analysis
Halupka, Lucyna; Arlt, Debora; Tolvanen, Jere; Millon, Alexandre; Bize, Pierre; Adamík, Peter; Albert, Pascal; Arendt, Wayne J.; Artemyev, Alexander V.Climate change affects timing of reproduction in many bird species, but few studies have investigated its influence on annual reproductive output. Here, we assess changes in the annual production of young by female breeders in 201 populations of 104 bird species (N = 745,962 clutches) covering all continents between 1970 and 2019. Overall, average offspring production has declined in recent decades, but conside...
Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating a...
Guilherme, João L.; Jones, Victoria R.; Catry, Inês; Beal, Martin; Dias, Maria P.; Oppel, Steffen; Vickery, Juliet A.; Hewson, Chris M.The conservation of long-distance migratory birds requires coordination between the multiple countries connected by the movements of these species. The recent expansion of tracking studies is shedding new light on these movements, but much of this information is fragmented and inaccessible to conservation practitioners and policy makers. We synthesized current knowledge on the connectivity established between c...
Fitness, behavioral, and energetic trade-offs of different migratory strategies...
Soriano-Redondo, Andrea; Franco, Aldina M. A.; Acácio, Marta; Payo-Payo, Ana; Martins, Bruno Herlander; Moreira, Francisco; Catry, InêsAlternative migratory strategies can coexist within animal populations and species. Anthropogenic impacts can shift the fitness balance between these strategies leading to changes in migratory behaviors. Yet some of the mecha- nisms that drive such changes remain poorly understood. Here we investigate the phenotypic differences, and the energetic, behavioral, and fitness trade-offs associated with four differen...
Combining remote sensing and tracking data to quantify species' cumulative expo...
Buchan, Claire; Gilroy, James J.; Catry, Inês; Hewson, Chris M.; Atkinson, Philip W.; Franco, Aldina M. A.Identifying when and where organisms are exposed to anthropogenic change is cru-cial for diagnosing the drivers of biodiversity declines and implementing effective conservation measures. Accurately measuring individual-scale exposure to anthro-pogenic impacts across the annual cycle as they move across continents requires an approach that is both spatially and temporally explicit—now achievable through recent p...
Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating a...
Guilherme, João L.; Jones, Victoria R.; Catry, Inês; Beal, Martin; Dias, Maria P.; Oppel, Steffen; Vickery, Juliet A.; Hewson, Chris; Butchart, StuartThe conservation of long-distance migratory birds requires coordination between the mul-tiple countries connected by the movements of these species. The recent expansion oftracking studies is shedding new light on these movements, but much of this informationis fragmented and inaccessible to conservation practitioners and policy makers. We synthe-sized current knowledge on the connectivity established between c...
Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating a...
Guilherme, João L.; Jones, Victoria R.; Catry, Inês; Beal, Martin; Dias, Maria P.; Oppel, Steffen; Vickery, Juliet A.; Hewson, Chris; Butchart, StuartThe conservation of long-distance migratory birds requires coordination between the multiple countries connected by the movements of these species. The recent expansion of tracking studies is shedding new light on these movements, but much of this information is fragmented and inaccessible to conservation practitioners and policy makers.We synthesized current knowledge on the connectivity established between co...
Antipredator benefits of heterospecific colonial breeding for a predominantly s...
Gameiro, João; Franco, Aldina M.A.; Catry, Teresa; M. Palmeirim, Jorge; Catry, InêsPredation risk profoundly shapes how animals behave and is one of the main forces driving the formation or maintenance of groups. For some species, group living may be facultative, and individuals may live solitarily or aggregate with conspecifics or heterospecifics, but the advantages of each strategy are still poorly known. Here, we investigated whether a predominantly solitary breeding species, the European ...
High trophic niche overlap in mixed‐species colonies using artificial nests
Gameiro, João; Catry, Teresa; Marcelino, Joana; Franco, Aldina M.A.; M. Palmeirim, Jorge; Catry, InêsAlthough successful at recovering endangered populations, conservation actions based on nest provisioning seldom consider how they shape the composition of communities and alter interspecific interactions. Specifically, the extent to which dietary overlap within these communities may affect the conservation of target species has rarely been assessed. In Southern Europe, sites of large-scale nest-site provisioni...