Passive acoustic monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions

SRPJ Ross, DP O'Connell, JL Deichmann… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has emerged as a transformative tool for applied
ecology, conservation and biodiversity monitoring, but its potential contribution to …

Environmental impacts of artificial light at night

KJ Gaston, A Sánchez de Miguel - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The nighttime is undergoing unprecedented change across much of the world, with natural
light cycles altered by the introduction of artificial light emissions. Here we review the extent …

[HTML][HTML] New frontiers in bird migration research

A Flack, EO Aikens, A Kölzsch, E Nourani, KRS Snell… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Bird migrations are impressive behavioral phenomena, representing complex
spatiotemporal strategies to balance costs of living while maximizing fitness. The field of bird …

11 pressing research questions on how light pollution affects biodiversity

F Hölker, J Bolliger, TW Davies, S Giavi… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is closely associated with modern societies and is rapidly
increasing worldwide. A dynamically growing body of literature shows that ALAN poses a …

Daily activity timing in the Anthropocene

NA Gilbert, KA McGinn, LA Nunes, AA Shipley… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Animals are facing novel 'timescapes' in which the stimuli entraining their daily activity
patterns no longer match historical conditions due to anthropogenic disturbance. However …

The surface urban heat island effect decreases bird diversity in Chinese cities

Z Cai, FA La Sorte, Y Chen, J Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The audiovisual experience of observing birds in cities provides numerous benefits to
residents, but their diversity is endangered by urbanization. Although the magnitude of the …

Pre-and postnatal noise directly impairs avian development, with fitness consequences

A Meillère, KL Buchanan, JR Eastwood, MM Mariette - Science, 2024 - science.org
Noise pollution is expanding at an unprecedented rate and is increasingly associated with
impaired reproduction and development across taxa. However, whether noise sound waves …

Inconsistent shifts in warming and temperature variability are linked to reduced avian fitness

CC Taff, JR Shipley - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
As the climate has warmed, many birds have advanced their breeding timing. However, as
climate change also changes temperature distributions, breeding earlier might increase …

Why and how we should join the shift from significance testing to estimation

D Berner, V Amrhein - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A paradigm shift away from null hypothesis significance testing seems in progress. Based on
simulations, we illustrate some of the underlying motivations. First, p‐values vary strongly …

A framework for contextualizing social‐ecological biases in contributory science data

EJ Carlen, CO Estien, T Caspi, D Perkins… - People and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Contributory science—including citizen and community science—allows scientists to
leverage participant‐generated data while providing an opportunity for engaging with local …