Interactions of melanin with electromagnetic radiation: From fundamentals to applications

W **e, A Dhinojwala, NC Gianneschi… - Chemical …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Melanin, especially integumentary melanin, interacts in numerous ways with
electromagnetic radiation, leading to a set of critical functions, including radiation protection …

Bird and bat species' global vulnerability to collision mortality at wind farms revealed through a trait-based assessment

CB Thaxter, GM Buchanan, J Carr… - … of the Royal …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mitigation of anthropogenic climate change involves deployments of renewable energy
worldwide, including wind farms, which can pose a significant collision risk to volant …

Global abundance estimates for 9,700 bird species

CT Callaghan, S Nakagawa, WK Cornwell - Proceedings of the National …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Quantifying the abundance of species is essential to ecology, evolution, and conservation.
The distribution of species abundances is fundamental to numerous longstanding questions …

Origins of music in credible signaling

SA Mehr, MM Krasnow, GA Bryant… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2021‏ - cambridge.org
Music comprises a diverse category of cognitive phenomena that likely represent both the
effects of psychological adaptations that are specific to music (eg, rhythmic entrainment) and …

Large-bodied birds are over-represented in unstructured citizen science data

CT Callaghan, AGB Poore, M Hofmann, CJ Roberts… - Scientific reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Citizen science platforms are quickly accumulating hundreds of millions of biodiversity
observations around the world annually. Quantifying and correcting for the biases in citizen …

Evolutionary predictors of the specific colors of birds

K Delhey, M Valcu, C Muck, J Dale… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Animal coloration is one of the most conspicuous aspects of human-perceived organismal
diversity, yet also one of the least understood. In particular, explaining why species have …

New insights from female bird song: towards an integrated approach to studying male and female communication roles

K Riebel, KJ Odom, NE Langmore… - Biology …, 2019‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Historically, bird song has been regarded as a sex-specific signalling trait; males sing to
attract females and females drive the evolution of signal exaggeration by preferring males …

[كتاب][B] The biology of moult in birds

L Jenni, R Winkler - 2020‏ - books.google.com
The first comprehensive review of all aspects of the biology of moult, drawing information
from across the literature and in all birds, from penguins to passerines. Feathers are …

Multifaceted origins of sex differences in the brain

MM McCarthy - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Studies of sex differences in the brain range from reductionistic cell and molecular analyses
in animal models to functional imaging in awake human subjects, with many other levels in …

Ornaments are equally informative in male and female birds

S Nolazco, K Delhey, S Nakagawa, A Peters - Nature Communications, 2022‏ - nature.com
Female ornaments are often reduced, male-like traits. Although these were long perceived
as non-functional, it is now broadly accepted that female ornaments can be adaptive …