Climate change, air quality, and respiratory health: a focus on particle deposition in the lungs

JH Chang, YL Lee, LT Chang, TY Chang… - Annals of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This review article delves into the multifaceted relationship between climate change, air
quality, and respiratory health, placing a special focus on the process of particle deposition …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between urbanization and avian communities in the Afrotropics: Evidence from taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity

AG Awoyemi, Y Barshep, S Manu… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urbanization negatively affects biodiversity worldwide, with the rapidly urbanizing
Afrotropical area being understudied. Furthermore, most previous studies investigating this …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence that multiple anthropogenic stressors cumulatively affect foraging and vigilance in an urban-living bird

G Blackburn, BJ Ashton, AR Ridley - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Few studies investigate the impact of multiple simultaneous anthropogenic
stressors.•Heat stress and anthropogenic noise are two stressors that often co …

Exposure of African ape sites to climate change impacts

R Kiribou, P Tehoda, O Chukwu, G Bempah… - PLOS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Large gaps remain in our understanding of the vulnerability of specific animal taxa and
regions to climate change, especially regarding extreme climate impact events. Here, we …

Contrasting morphometric responses to increasing urbanisation in congeneric sparrow species

SK Naidoo, D Chamberlain, C Reynolds - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Increased urbanisation influences the morphometric traits of various species, often resulting
in urban individuals being smaller than their non-urban counterparts. Urbanisation can affect …

The importance of investigating the impact of simultaneous anthropogenic stressors: the effects of rising temperatures and anthropogenic noise on avian behaviour …

G Blackburn, C Soravia, AR Ridley - Journal of Avian Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Rising temperatures and anthropogenic noise are two of the most pervasive and well
researched anthropogenic stressors affecting avian species globally. Despite often …

Urbanisation-associated shifts in the avian metabolome within the annual cycle

H Watson, JÅ Nilsson, E Smith, F Ottosson… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
While organisms have evolved to cope with predictable changes in the environment, the
rapid rate of current global change presents numerous novel and unpredictable stressors to …

The genomics of adaptation to climate in European great tit (Parus major) populations

JC Stonehouse, LG Spurgin, VN Laine… - Evolution …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The recognition that climate change is occurring at an unprecedented rate means that there
is increased urgency in understanding how organisms can adapt to a changing …

From eggs to adulthood: sustained effects of early developmental temperature and corticosterone exposure on physiology and body size in an Australian lizard

OL Crino, KH Wild, CR Friesen… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Develo** animals are increasingly exposed to elevated temperatures as global
temperatures rise as a result of climate change. Vertebrates can be affected by elevated …