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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., …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., …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., …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., …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., …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., Liu, Y., …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.

How to become a generalist species? Individual niche variation across habitat transformation gradients (2020)
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Liang, D., Yang, S., Pagani-Núñez, E., He, C., Liu, Y., Goodale, E., …Hu, J. (2020). How to become a generalist species? Individual niche variation across habitat transformation gradients. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, Article 597450. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.597450

Species in transformed habitats, frequently labeled as environmental generalists, tend to show broader niches than species in natural habitats. However, how population niche expansion translates into changes in the niches of individual organisms rema... Read More about How to become a generalist species? Individual niche variation across habitat transformation gradients.

The impact of urbanization on body size of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis (2020)
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Zhao, Y., Liu, Y., Scordato, E. S., Lee, M., Xing, X., Pan, X., …Pagani‐Núñez, E. (2021). The impact of urbanization on body size of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis. Ecology and Evolution, 11(1), 612-625. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7088

Urbanization implies a dramatic impact on ecosystems, which may lead to drastic phenotypic differences between urban and nonurban individuals. For instance, urbanization is associated with increased metabolic costs, which may constrain body size, but... Read More about The impact of urbanization on body size of Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica gutturalis.

The truth is in the detail: predators attack aposematic prey with less aggression than other prey types (2020)
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Yamazaki, Y., Pagani-Núñez, E., Sota, T., & Barnett, C. R. (2020). The truth is in the detail: predators attack aposematic prey with less aggression than other prey types. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 131(2), 332-343. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa119

Aposematic organisms are often unprofitable to predators (e.g. because of defensive chemicals) which they advertise with a conspicuous signal (e.g. bright and conspicuous colour signals). Aposematism is thought to reduce predation of prey because the... Read More about The truth is in the detail: predators attack aposematic prey with less aggression than other prey types.

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., …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

Background 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.

Foraging in the tropics: relationships among species’ abundances, niche asymmetries and body condition in an urban avian assemblage (2017)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., He, C., Wu, Y. W., Peabotuwage, I., & Goodale, E. (2017). Foraging in the tropics: relationships among species’ abundances, niche asymmetries and body condition in an urban avian assemblage. Urban Ecosystems, 20(6), 1301-1310. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-017-0682-1

Two main theories attempt to explain species coexistence: the neutral theory considers all the species as equivalents so biodiversity is mainly regarded as a function of total available resources (i.e. niche expansion), while the niche theory stresse... Read More about Foraging in the tropics: relationships among species’ abundances, niche asymmetries and body condition in an urban avian assemblage.

To be so bold: boldness is repeatable and related to within individual behavioural variability in North Island robins (2017)
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He, R., Pagani-Núñez, E., Chevallier, C., & Barnett, C. R. (2017). To be so bold: boldness is repeatable and related to within individual behavioural variability in North Island robins. Behavioural Processes, 140, 144-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2017.04.014

Behavioural research traditionally focusses on the mean responses of a group of individuals rather than variation in behaviour around the mean or among individuals. However, examining the variation in behaviour among and within individuals may also y... Read More about To be so bold: boldness is repeatable and related to within individual behavioural variability in North Island robins.

The diet of great tit nestlings: Comparing observation records and stable isotope analyses (2016)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Renom, M., Mateos-Gonzalez, F., Cotín, J., & Senar, J. C. (2017). The diet of great tit nestlings: Comparing observation records and stable isotope analyses. Basic and Applied Ecology, 18, 57-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2016.11.004

The diet of wild animals has been studied using many different strategies, approaches and methods in recent decades. In this regard, stable isotopes analysis (SIA) is becoming a widespread tool, but no study has yet, to our knowledge, compared diet e... Read More about The diet of great tit nestlings: Comparing observation records and stable isotope analyses.

More ornamented Great Tit Parus major fathers start feeding their offspring earlier (2016)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., & Senar, J. C. (2016). More ornamented Great Tit Parus major fathers start feeding their offspring earlier. Ardea, 104(2), 167-176. https://doi.org/10.5253/arde.v104i2.a1

Carotenoid-based ornaments have been proposed to signal the ability to find food. The good-parent hypothesis suggests that females may rely on these carotenoid-based traits to assess male parental quality. A key question is whether the quality of the... Read More about More ornamented Great Tit Parus major fathers start feeding their offspring earlier.

The need for new categorizations of dietary specialism incorporating spatio‐temporal variability of individual diet specialization (2016)
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Pagani‐Núñez, E., Barnett, C., Gu, H., & Goodale, E. (2016). The need for new categorizations of dietary specialism incorporating spatio‐temporal variability of individual diet specialization. Journal of Zoology, 300(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12364

In the last decade, an increasing body of research has addressed the extent to which different individuals within a species or population specialize in their exploitation of different food resources, which is referred to as individual diet specializa... Read More about The need for new categorizations of dietary specialism incorporating spatio‐temporal variability of individual diet specialization.

The breeding ecology of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica gutturalis in South China (2016)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., He, C., Li, B., Li, M., He, R., Jiang, A., & Goodale, E. (2016). The breeding ecology of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica gutturalis in South China. Journal of Tropical Ecology, 32(3), 260-263. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467416000201

Some animal species are found in many environments and over wide distributions and may have adaptations to live in such different areas. The barn swallow Hirundo rustica is an example of a species that is able to thrive over a large geographic range... Read More about The breeding ecology of the barn swallow Hirundo rustica gutturalis in South China.

Comparing prey composition and prey size delivered to nestlings by great tits, Parus major, and blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, in a Mediterranean sclerophyllous mixed forest (2016)
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Navalpotro, H., Pagani–Núñez, E., Hernández–Gómez, S., & Senar, J. (2016). Comparing prey composition and prey size delivered to nestlings by great tits, Parus major, and blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, in a Mediterranean sclerophyllous mixed forest. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 39(1), 129-139. https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2016.39.0129

Resource partitioning is a central issue in ecology because it can establish to which point similar species can coexist in the same habitat. Great tits and blue tits have been classical model species in studies of trophic competence. However, most st... Read More about Comparing prey composition and prey size delivered to nestlings by great tits, Parus major, and blue tits, Cyanistes caeruleus, in a Mediterranean sclerophyllous mixed forest.

Metal exposure influences the melanin and carotenoid-based colorations in great tits (2015)
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Giraudeau, M., Mateos-Gonzalez, F., Cotín, J., Pagani-Nuñez, E., Torné-Noguera, A., & Senar, J. (2015). Metal exposure influences the melanin and carotenoid-based colorations in great tits. Science of the Total Environment, 532, 512-516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.021

Metals are naturally found in the environment but are also emitted through anthropogenic activities, raising some concerns about the potential deleterious effects of these elements on wildlife. The potential effects of metals on bird coloration have... Read More about Metal exposure influences the melanin and carotenoid-based colorations in great tits.

Diet specialization in a generalist population: the case of breeding great tits Parus major in the Mediterranean area (2015)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Valls, M., & Senar, J. (2015). Diet specialization in a generalist population: the case of breeding great tits Parus major in the Mediterranean area. Oecologia, 179(3), 629-640. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3334-2

The analysis of diet specialization provides key information on how different individuals deal with similar food and habitat constraints within populations. Characterizing parental diet specialization at the moment of breeding, and the consistency of... Read More about Diet specialization in a generalist population: the case of breeding great tits Parus major in the Mediterranean area.

Year-round preference for spiders by Mediterranean Great Tits Parus major (2014)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Hernández-Gómez, S., Riyahi, S., & Senar, J. (2014). Year-round preference for spiders by Mediterranean Great Tits Parus major. Ardeola, 61(2), 257-267. https://doi.org/10.13157/arla.61.2.2014.257

A key topic in foraging ecology is whether a particular prey type is consumed because it is more abundant or easier to catch, or because there is a specific preference for it. The great tit Parus major is an ideal species for studying this topic. Alt... Read More about Year-round preference for spiders by Mediterranean Great Tits Parus major.

Habitat structure and prey composition generate contrasting effects on carotenoid-based coloration of great tit Parus major nestlings (2014)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Uribe, F., Hernández-Gómez, S., Muñoz, G., & Senar, J. C. (2014). Habitat structure and prey composition generate contrasting effects on carotenoid-based coloration of great tit Parus major nestlings. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113(2), 547-555. https://doi.org/10.1111/bij.12352

Carotenoid-based coloration of nestling plumage is generally considered a reliable signal of quality and has consistently been related to habitat structure. The main hypothesis proposed to explain this correlation is that high quality habitats contai... Read More about Habitat structure and prey composition generate contrasting effects on carotenoid-based coloration of great tit Parus major nestlings.

Wintering location and moult patterns of juvenile Common Chiffchaffs Phylloscopus collybita (2014)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Fregenal, J., Hernández-Gómez, S., & Domínguez-Santaella, M. (2014). Wintering location and moult patterns of juvenile Common Chiffchaffs Phylloscopus collybita. Bird Study, 61(2), 270-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2014.907237

The pattern of moult of juvenile Common Chiffchaffs Phylloscopus collybita wintering in two distant localities of the Iberian Peninsula, Málaga (south) and Barcelona (north) differed. Individuals wintering in the northern locality moulted more contou... Read More about Wintering location and moult patterns of juvenile Common Chiffchaffs Phylloscopus collybita.

Are colorful males of great tits Parus major better parents? Parental investment is a matter of quality (2013)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., & Senar, J. C. (2014). Are colorful males of great tits Parus major better parents? Parental investment is a matter of quality. Acta oecologica, 55, 23-28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2013.11.001

Given the known influence of parental investment on breeding success of great tits Parus major, females should be expected to use male parental quality as an essential criterion in mate choice. Since parental quality cannot usually be observed direct... Read More about Are colorful males of great tits Parus major better parents? Parental investment is a matter of quality.

Great Tit (Parus major) breath rate in response to handling stress: urban and forest birds differ (2013)
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Torné-Noguera, A., Pagani-Núñez, E., & Senar, J. C. (2014). Great Tit (Parus major) breath rate in response to handling stress: urban and forest birds differ. Journal of Ornithology, 155(1), 315-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-013-1025-5

Animal research commonly requires temporary handling of study animals. In this study, we compared the response to handling stress in urban and forest Great Tits (Parus major). We measured breath rate, which has been suggested as a proxy of the stress... Read More about Great Tit (Parus major) breath rate in response to handling stress: urban and forest birds differ.

One hour of sampling is enough: Great Tit Parus major parents feed their nestlings consistently across time (2013)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., & Senar, J. C. (2013). One hour of sampling is enough: Great Tit Parus major parents feed their nestlings consistently across time. Acta Ornithologica, 48(2), 194-200. https://doi.org/10.3161/000164513X678847

Parental investment is a key topic in avian ecology, and many authors have focused on nestling-feeding behaviour to analyse this issue. Surprisingly, most studies have based their results on feeding patterns recorded over periods of only one or two h... Read More about One hour of sampling is enough: Great Tit Parus major parents feed their nestlings consistently across time.

Red-billed Leiothrix sexing is a matter of colour (2012)
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Senar, J. C., & Tella, J. L. (2013). Red-billed Leiothrix sexing is a matter of colour. Bird Study, 60(2), 285-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2012.753024

Capsule The Red-billed Leiothrix (Leiothrix lutea) is a superficially sexually monochromatic colourful bird native to the Indian subcontinent, which has colonized many locations across the world as an introduced species. We investigated the best meth... Read More about Red-billed Leiothrix sexing is a matter of colour.

The diet of Great Tit Parus major nestlings in a Mediterranean Iberian forest: the important role of spiders (2011)
Journal Article
Pagani–Núñez, E., Ruiz, Í., Quesada, J., Negro, J. J., & Senar, J. C. (2011). The diet of Great Tit Parus major nestlings in a Mediterranean Iberian forest: the important role of spiders. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 34(2), 355-361. https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2011.34.0355

The diet of the Great Tit Parus major when rearing chicks has been described in many studies. However, data from the Mediterranean area is scarce. Here we describe the diet of nestlings in a population of Great Tits in a Mediterranean forest in Barce... Read More about The diet of Great Tit Parus major nestlings in a Mediterranean Iberian forest: the important role of spiders.

Changes in carotenoid‐based plumage colour in relation to age in European Serins Serinus serinus (2011)
Journal Article
Pagani-Núñez, E., & Senar, J. C. (2012). Changes in carotenoid‐based plumage colour in relation to age in European Serins Serinus serinus. Ibis, 154(1), 155-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01197.x

Yearling birds generally display duller colours than adults. This may be due to selection favouring birds with more intensely coloured plumage or to an increase in colour after the first complete moult. Most research to date on the topic has been car... Read More about Changes in carotenoid‐based plumage colour in relation to age in European Serins Serinus serinus.