Rainy springs linked to poor nestling growth in a declining avian aerial insectivore (Tachycineta bicolor)

AR Cox, RJ Robertson, ÁZ Lendvai… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
As species shift their ranges and phenology to cope with climate change, many are left
without a ready supply of their preferred food source during critical life stages. Food …

An Arduino-based RFID platform for animal research

ES Bridge, J Wilhelm, MM Pandit, A Moreno… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been broadly applied in the biological
sciences to yield new insights into behavior, cognition, population biology, and distributions …

Methods for collecting data about the breeding biology of Neotropical birds

K Fierro‐Calderón, M Loaiza‐Muñoz… - Journal of Field …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The study of avian nesting biology in North America and Europe has a long history, resulting
in an expansive and information‐rich literature. In contrast, the tropics have been relatively …

The effects of humidity on thermoregulatory physiology of a small songbird

CK Porter, KM Cortes, O Levy… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Scholander–Irving curves describe the relationship between ambient temperature and
metabolic rate and are fundamental to understanding the energetic demands of …

How to quantify animal activity from radio‐frequency identification (RFID) recordings

A Iserbyt, M Griffioen, B Borremans… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Automated animal monitoring via radio‐frequency identification (RFID) technology allows
efficient and extensive data sampling of individual activity levels and is therefore commonly …

Comparison of manual, machine learning, and hybrid methods for video annotation to extract parental care data

AHH Chan, J Liu, T Burke, WD Pearse… - Journal of Avian …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Measuring parental care behaviour in the wild is central to the study of animal ecology and
evolution, but it is often labour‐and time‐intensive. Efficient open‐source tools have recently …

Organismal effects of heat in a fixed ecological niche: Implications on the role of behavioral buffering in our changing world

MJ Woodruff, LO Sermersheim, SE Wolf… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves generate new challenges for many organisms.
Our understanding of the ecological predictors of thermal vulnerability is improving, yet, at …

Hidden in plain sight: migration routes of the elusive Anadyr bar‐tailed godwit revealed by satellite tracking

YC Chan, TL Tibbitts, D Dorofeev… - Journal of Avian …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite and GPS tracking technology continues to reveal new migration patterns of birds
which enables comparative studies of migration strategies and distributional information …

Do baseline glucocorticoids simultaneously represent fitness and environmental quality in a declining aerial insectivore?

CL Madliger, OP Love - Oikos, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are often interpreted as indicators of disturbance, habitat quality, and
fitness in wild populations. However, since most investigations have been unable to …

Oxidative physiology of reproduction in a passerine bird: a field experiment

PL Pap, O Vincze, A Fülöp, O Székely-Béres… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2018 - Springer
Organisms face resource trade-offs to support their parental effort and survival. The life-
history oxidative stress hypothesis predicts that an individual's redox state modulates the …