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Dr Emilio Pagani-Nunez's Outputs (5)

How to become a generalist species? Individual niche variation across habitat transformation gradients (2020)
Journal Article
Liang, D., Yang, S., Pagani-Núñez, E., He, C., Liu, Y., Goodale, E., Liao, W. B., & 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)
Journal Article
Zhao, Y., Liu, Y., Scordato, E. S., Lee, M., Xing, X., Pan, X., Liu, Y., Safran, R. J., & 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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.