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Complementing urban agriculture and green spaces is important for ecosystem functions and biodiversity in cities: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2025)
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Li, Z., Chen, S., Priyadarshana, T., Lee, M.-B., Xiao, L., Fischer, T. B., He, X., Woodcock, B. A., & Pagani-Núñez, E. (2025). Complementing urban agriculture and green spaces is important for ecosystem functions and biodiversity in cities: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 6(3), Article e70084. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.70084

1. As cities expand, they encroach on agricultural land, impacting food production and natural habitats. While urban agriculture could help address these issues, the impact of increased food production on ecosystem functions—particularly with regards... Read More about Complementing urban agriculture and green spaces is important for ecosystem functions and biodiversity in cities: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Citizen science enabled planning for species conservation in urban landscapes: the case of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica in southern China (2025)
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Chen, S., Liu, Y., Li, P., Patrick, S. C., Goodale, E., Safran, R. J., Zhao, X., Zhuo, X., Fu, J., Herr, C. M., & Pagani-Núñez, E. (2025). Citizen science enabled planning for species conservation in urban landscapes: the case of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica in southern China. Landscape Ecology, 40(3), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-025-02071-7

Context: Urbanization has detrimental effects on biodiversity, yet how species respond to urban planning zoning outcomes and environmental changes at different spatial scales when selecting urban breeding habitats remains understudied. Mitigating suc... Read More about Citizen science enabled planning for species conservation in urban landscapes: the case of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica in southern China.

The direct and indirect effects of road verges and urban greening on butterflies in a tropical city-state (2025)
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Priyadarshana, T. S., Woodcock, B. A., Jain, A., Martínez-Núñez, C., Goodale, E., Pagani-Núñez, E., Gebert, F., Lee, J. S., & Slade, E. M. (2025). The direct and indirect effects of road verges and urban greening on butterflies in a tropical city-state. Landscape and Urban Planning, 258, Article 105335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105335

Road verges have considerable potential to benefit wildlife, but in highly urbanised areas management often limits their value for biodiversity. Evaluating how the management of road verges affects wildlife, both directly and indirectly, provides opp... Read More about The direct and indirect effects of road verges and urban greening on butterflies in a tropical city-state.

Did you learn what to eat from your parents? A test of the early learning of the foraging niche hypothesis in great tits Parus major (2024)
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Olivé-Muñiz, M., Pagani-Núñez, E., Kretzmann, M., & Carlos Senar, J. (2025). Did you learn what to eat from your parents? A test of the early learning of the foraging niche hypothesis in great tits Parus major. Journal of Avian Biology, 2025(1), Article e03335. https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.03335

A growing number of studies suggest that individuals can develop long-term foraging specializations independently of phenotypic or environmental variation, yet little is known about how the foraging niche is acquired. The early learning of the foragi... Read More about Did you learn what to eat from your parents? A test of the early learning of the foraging niche hypothesis in great tits Parus major.

Effects of fishery bycatch-mitigation measures on vulnerable marine fauna and target catch (2024)
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Huang, C., Rice, J., Richter, A., Zhou, K., Wang, Y., Wei, C., Pagani-Núñez, E., Maleko, P. N., Zhang, X., Lee, T. M., & Liu, Y. (2024). Effects of fishery bycatch-mitigation measures on vulnerable marine fauna and target catch. Nature Sustainability, 7, 1535–1545. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01422-7

Reducing fisheries bycatches of vulnerable species is critical to marine biodiversity conservation and sustainable fisheries development. Although various preventive technical measures have been implemented, their overall effects are poorly understoo... Read More about Effects of fishery bycatch-mitigation measures on vulnerable marine fauna and target catch.

Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns (2024)
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Zvereva, E., Adroit, B., Andersson, T., Barnett, C., Branco, S., Castagneyrol, B., Chiarenza, G., Dáttilo, W., del‐Val, E., Filip, J., Griffith, J., Hargreaves, A., Hernández‐Agüero, J., Silva, I., Hong, Y., Kietzka, G., Klimeš, P., Koistinen, M., Kruglova, O., Kumpula, S., …Kozlov, M. (2024). Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 33(11), Article e13899. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13899

Aim: Long‐standing theory predicts that the intensity of biotic interactions increases from high to low latitudes. Studies addressing geographic variation in predation on insect prey have often relied on prey models, which lack many characteristics o... Read More about Predation on Live and Artificial Insect Prey Shows Different Global Latitudinal Patterns.

Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis (2024)
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Priyadarshana, T. S., Martin, E. A., Sirami, C., Woodcock, B. A., Goodale, E., Martínez‐Núñez, C., Lee, M., Pagani‐Núñez, E., Raderschall, C. A., Brotons, L., Rege, A., Ouin, A., Tscharntke, T., & Slade, E. M. (2024). Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters, 27(3), Article e14412. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14412

Agricultural intensification not only increases food production but also drives widespread biodiversity decline. Increasing landscape heterogeneity has been suggested to increase biodiversity across habitats, while increasing crop heterogeneity may s... Read More about Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: A global review and meta‐analysis.

The impacts of host traits on parasite infection of montane birds in southwestern China (2024)
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Zhan, X., Huang, X., Pagani-Núñez, E., Tang, Q., Ho, H., Zhou, W., Liu, Y., & Liang, D. (2024). The impacts of host traits on parasite infection of montane birds in southwestern China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12, Article 1305305. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1305305

Parasitic infections have the potential to impact the hosts’ body condition, elevate physiological responses, and ultimately lead to increased mortality. Host-parasite interactions are tied to the ecological and life-history traits of the hosts. Whil... Read More about The impacts of host traits on parasite infection of montane birds in southwestern China.

A mixed black and whitelist approach for wildlife trade regulation in China: Biodiversity conservation is made of shades of gray (2024)
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Xiao, L., Pagani‐Núñez, E., Han, X., Zhao, P., Li, X., Hong, Y., Hu, R., Zhao, X., Sun, G., Wardhana, C., & Lu, Z. (2024). A mixed black and whitelist approach for wildlife trade regulation in China: Biodiversity conservation is made of shades of gray. Conservation Science and Practice, 6(2), Article e13062. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13062

The Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework requires effective actions to bend the curve of biodiversity loss by 2030. Wildlife trade, a direct drive of biodiversity decline, calls for more effective regulations to both protect wildlife popula... Read More about A mixed black and whitelist approach for wildlife trade regulation in China: Biodiversity conservation is made of shades of gray.

Protecting China’s major urban bird diversity hotspots (2023)
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Li, L., Yan, M., Hong, Y., Feng, W., Xie, D., & Pagani-Núñez, E. (2024). Protecting China’s major urban bird diversity hotspots. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 53, 339-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01943-z

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework puts forward a new conservation target to enhance urban biodiversity. Cities have a great potential for sustaining biodiversity and nurturing a healthy relationship between people and our nearest nat... Read More about Protecting China’s major urban bird diversity hotspots.

A multidimensional framework to quantify the effects of urbanization on avian breeding fitness (2023)
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Chen, S., Liu, Y., Patrick, S. C., Goodale, E., Safran, R. J., & Pagani‐Núñez, E. (2023). A multidimensional framework to quantify the effects of urbanization on avian breeding fitness. Ecology and Evolution, 13(7), Article e10259. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10259

Urbanization has dramatically altered Earth's landscapes and changed a multitude of environmental factors. This has resulted in intense land-use change, and adverse consequences such as the urban heat island effect (UHI), noise pollution, and artific... Read More about A multidimensional framework to quantify the effects of urbanization on avian breeding fitness.

Mammalian predators and vegetated nesting habitat drive reduced protected area nesting success of Kentish plovers, Yellow Sea region, China (2023)
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Li, D., Bai, Y., Lei, W., Que, P., Liu, Y., Pagani‐Núñez, E., Lloyd, H., & Zhang, Z. (2023). Mammalian predators and vegetated nesting habitat drive reduced protected area nesting success of Kentish plovers, Yellow Sea region, China. Ecology and Evolution, 13(3), Article e9884. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9884

Protected areas provide essential habitats for wildlife by conserving natural and semi-natural habitats and reducing human disturbance. However, whether breeding birds vulnerable to nest predation can benefit from strict land management in the protec... Read More about Mammalian predators and vegetated nesting habitat drive reduced protected area nesting success of Kentish plovers, Yellow Sea region, China.

The effect of urbanization and exposure to multiple environmental factors on life-history traits and breeding success of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) across China (2022)
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Zhao, Y., Pagani-Núñez, E., Liu, Y., Xing, X., Zhang, Z., Pan, G., Song, L., Li, X., Zhou, Z., Chen, Y., Li, D., Liu, Y., & Safran, R. J. (2022). The effect of urbanization and exposure to multiple environmental factors on life-history traits and breeding success of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) across China. Avian Research, 13, Article 100048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2022.100048

In addition to landscape changes, urbanization also brings about changes in environmental factors that can affect wildlife. Despite the common referral in the published literature to multiple environmental factors such as light and noise pollution, t... Read More about The effect of urbanization and exposure to multiple environmental factors on life-history traits and breeding success of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) across China.

Trade‐offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation on a tropical island (2022)
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Pagani‐Núñez, E., Xu, Y., Yan, M., He, J., Jiang, Z., & Jiang, H. (2022). Trade‐offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation on a tropical island. Conservation Biology, 36(5), Article e139121. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13912

Resolving trade-offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation needs is crucial in currently developing countries and in particularly sensitive systems harboring high biodiversity. Yet, such a task is challenging because human activi... Read More about Trade‐offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation on a tropical island.

Undergraduates' perceptions on emergency remote learning in ecology in the post‐pandemic era (2022)
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Pagani‐Núñez, E., Yan, M., Hong, Y., Zeng, Y., Chen, S., Zhao, P., & Zou, Y. (2022). Undergraduates' perceptions on emergency remote learning in ecology in the post‐pandemic era. Ecology and Evolution, 12(3), Article e8659. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8659

The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly disrupted academic activities, particularly in disciplines with a strong empirical component among other reasons by limiting our mobility. It is thus essential to assess emergency remote teaching plans by surveying... Read More about Undergraduates' perceptions on emergency remote learning in ecology in the post‐pandemic era.

A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence (2022)
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Turbek, S. P., Schield, D. R., Scordato, E. S., Contina, A., Da, X.-W., Liu, Y., Liu, Y., Pagani-Núñez, E., Ren, Q.-M., & Smith, C. C. (2022). A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence. Evolution, 76(4), 722-736. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14448

Migratory divides are contact zones between breeding populations with divergent migratory strategies during the nonbreeding season. These locations provide an opportunity to evaluate the role of seasonal migration in the maintenance of reproductive i... Read More about A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence.

Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability (2022)
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He, R., Pagani-Núñez, E., Goodale, E., & Barnett, C. (2022). Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 2334. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05600-5

Aposematic organisms defend themselves through various means to increase their unprofitability to predators which they advertise with conspicuous warning signals. Predators learn to avoid aposematic prey through associative learning that leads to low... Read More about Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability.

Dynamic trait-niche relationships shape niche partitioning across habitat transformation gradients (2022)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Liang, D., He, C., Liu, Y., Luo, X., & Goodale, E. (2022). Dynamic trait-niche relationships shape niche partitioning across habitat transformation gradients. Basic and Applied Ecology, 59, 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.01.002

Multidimensional approaches examining complex trait-niche relationships are crucial to understand community assembly. This is particularly important across habitat transformation gradients because specialists are progressively substituted by generali... Read More about Dynamic trait-niche relationships shape niche partitioning across habitat transformation gradients.

Breeding Great Tit Parus major Individuals have Moderately Consistent Foraging Niches Across Years (2021)
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Olivé-Muñiz, M., Pagani-Núñez, E., & Senar, J. C. (2021). Breeding Great Tit Parus major Individuals have Moderately Consistent Foraging Niches Across Years. Ardeola, 68(2), 409-422. https://doi.org/10.13157/arla.68.2.2021.ra6

Diet specialisation during brood rearing has important consequences on parental reproductive success and on the recruitment rate of offspring. However, very little is known about the long-term consistency of parents when feeding their offspring. Here... Read More about Breeding Great Tit Parus major Individuals have Moderately Consistent Foraging Niches Across Years.