Urban landscapes are associated with abiotic and biotic environmental changes that may
result in potential stressors for wild vertebrates. Urban exploiters have physiological …

Dietary changes linked to the availability of anthropogenic food resources can have complex
implications for species and ecosystems, especially when species are in decline. Here, we …

Multi-colony studies of breeding seabirds may provide insights into the mechanistic links
between large-scale climate variability and local changes in prey availability. In the North …

Forage fish are ecologically important to the marine environment, creating a wasp-waist
trophic structure whereby many piscivorous diets are composed of a low diversity of mid …

Measuring corticosterone in feathers has become an informative tool in avian ecology,
enabling researchers to investigate carry‐over effects and responses to environmental …

In long-lived animals, the challenges that threaten individual homeostasis, and the way they
are dealt with, are expected to vary in an age-related manner, encompassing the …

Methods to assess environmental pollution and stress responses in birds with scarcely
invasive or non-invasive sampling are highly sought after in ecology and conservation. For …

Metal pollution is a global environmental issue with adverse biological effects on wildlife.
Long-term studies that span declines in metal emissions due to regulation, resulting in …

The effects of acute environmental stressors on reproduction in wildlife are often difficult to
measure because of the labour and disturbance involved in collecting accurate reproductive …

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are still globally distributed and some have been
shown to interact with the endocrine system of birds. However, the relationship between …