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Differences in dietary specialization, habitat use and susceptibility to human disturbance influence feeding rates and resource partitioning between two migratory Numenius curlew species (2020)
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Li, D., Zhang, J., Liu, Y., Lloyd, H., Pagani-Núñez, E., & Zhang, Z. (2020). Differences in dietary specialization, habitat use and susceptibility to human disturbance influence feeding rates and resource partitioning between two migratory Numenius curlew species. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 245, Article 106990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106990

Migratory shorebirds select stopover sites to fuel their migration across heterogeneous coastal landscapes with abundant prey resources. Quantifying the degree of dietary specialization between closely-related species and how they partition resources... Read More about Differences in dietary specialization, habitat use and susceptibility to human disturbance influence feeding rates and resource partitioning between two migratory Numenius curlew species.

Genetic, phenotypic and ecological differentiation suggests incipient speciation in two Charadrius plovers along the Chinese coast (2019)
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Wang, X., Que, P., Heckel, G., Hu, J., Zhang, X., Chiang, C.-Y., Zhang, N., Huang, Q., Liu, S., Martinez, J., Pagani-Núñez, E., Dingle, C., Yan Leung, Y., Székely, T., Zhang, Z., & Liu, Y. (2019). Genetic, phenotypic and ecological differentiation suggests incipient speciation in two Charadrius plovers along the Chinese coast. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(1), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1449-5

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Speciation with gene flow is an alternative to the nascence of new taxa in strict allopatric separation. Indeed, many taxa have parapatric distributions at present. It is often unclear if these are secondary contacts, e.g. caused by past... Read More about Genetic, phenotypic and ecological differentiation suggests incipient speciation in two Charadrius plovers along the Chinese coast.

Niches in the Anthropocene: passerine assemblages show niche expansion from natural to urban habitats (2019)
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Pagani‐Núñez, E., Liang, D., He, C., Zhou, X., Luo, X., Liu, Y., & Goodale, E. (2019). Niches in the Anthropocene: passerine assemblages show niche expansion from natural to urban habitats. Ecography, 42(8), 1360-1369. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04203

Human-mediated habitat transformation is increasingly evident around the world. Yet, how this transformation influences species’ niche width and overlap remains unclear. On the one hand, human-mediated habitat transformation promotes increased specie... Read More about Niches in the Anthropocene: passerine assemblages show niche expansion from natural to urban habitats.

Isotopic niche overlap between the invasive leiothrix and potential native competitors (2018)
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Pagani–Núñez, E., Renom, M., Furquet, C., Rodríguez, J., Llimona, F., & Senar, J. (2018). Isotopic niche overlap between the invasive leiothrix and potential native competitors. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 41(2), 427-434. https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2018.41.0427

We analysed niche overlap between the red–billed leiothrix Leiothrix lutea, a spreading exotic invasive bird, and the European robin Erithacus rubecula and the blackcap Sylvia atricapilla, similar native species, which are commonly considered as pote... Read More about Isotopic niche overlap between the invasive leiothrix and potential native competitors.

Breath rate of passerines across an urbanization gradient supports the pace‐of‐life hypothesis and suggests diet‐mediated responses to handling stress (2018)
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Liang, D., He, C., Luo, X., Liu, Y., Goodale, E., & Pagani‐Núñez, E. (2018). Breath rate of passerines across an urbanization gradient supports the pace‐of‐life hypothesis and suggests diet‐mediated responses to handling stress. Ecology and Evolution, 8(18), 9526-9535. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4460

The pace-of-life hypothesis predicts no impact of urbanization on stress responses. Accordingly, several studies have been inconsistent in showing differences in breath rate (BR), a proxy of acute stress responses to handling in passerines, between r... Read More about Breath rate of passerines across an urbanization gradient supports the pace‐of‐life hypothesis and suggests diet‐mediated responses to handling stress.

Age and sex differences in niche use at molt and its effect on plumage coloration characteristics in a bird (2018)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Barnett, C. R., & Senar, J. C. (2019). Age and sex differences in niche use at molt and its effect on plumage coloration characteristics in a bird. Current Zoology, 65(3), 251-260. https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoy062

Bird plumage is often very colorful and can communicate the quality of the bearer to conspecifics. These plumage-based signals of quality are composed of multiple pigments (e.g., melanin and carotenoids). Therefore, sex and age classes, which often s... Read More about Age and sex differences in niche use at molt and its effect on plumage coloration characteristics in a bird.

Incubation behaviour of a high-altitude species: the Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda (2018)
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Liang, D., Gao, G., Pagani-Núñez, E., Pang, H., Liu, Y., Luo, X., & Robinson, S. K. (2018). Incubation behaviour of a high-altitude species: the Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda. Bird Study, 65(2), 261-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2018.1446905

The incubation behaviour of the Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda was measured using data loggers in the Hengduan Mountains, China, to test predictions of parental trade-off theory. Overall, female sunbirds prioritized incubation rather than se... Read More about Incubation behaviour of a high-altitude species: the Fire-tailed Sunbird Aethopyga ignicauda.

Are vocal characteristics related to leadership patterns in mixed‐species bird flocks? (2018)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Xia, X., Beauchamp, G., He, R., Husson, J. H., Liang, D., & Goodale, E. (2018). Are vocal characteristics related to leadership patterns in mixed‐species bird flocks?. Journal of Avian Biology, 49(5), Article jav-01674. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01674

What structures the organization of mixed-species bird flocks, so that some ‘nuclear’ species lead the flocks, and others follow? Previous research has shown that species actively listen to each other, and that leaders are gregarious; such gregarious... Read More about Are vocal characteristics related to leadership patterns in mixed‐species bird flocks?.

Ecology of two Pittas (Pitta soror and Pitta nympha) in limestone forests of South China (2017)
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Jiang, A., Yang, G., Pagani-Núñez, E., & Jiang, D. (2017). Ecology of two Pittas (Pitta soror and Pitta nympha) in limestone forests of South China. Journal of Natural History, 51(31-32), 1929-1941. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2017.1355490

The ecology and life history of bird species inhabiting limestone forests, which are under major conservation threats, is currently poorly known. To cover this gap of knowledge, in this study we report for the first time on several aspects of the bre... Read More about Ecology of two Pittas (Pitta soror and Pitta nympha) in limestone forests of South China.