Insect declines in the Anthropocene

DL Wagner - Annual review of entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Insect declines are being reported worldwide for flying, ground, and aquatic lineages. Most
reports come from western and northern Europe, where the insect fauna is well-studied and …

Evidence for multiple drivers of aerial insectivore declines in North America

KJ Spiller, R Dettmers - The Condor, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Aerial insectivores (birds that forage on aerial insects) have experienced significant
population declines in North America. Numerous hypotheses have been proposed for these …

Differences in spatial synchrony and interspecific concordance inform guild‐level population trends for aerial insectivorous birds

NL Michel, AC Smith, RG Clark, CA Morrissey… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many animal species exhibit spatiotemporal synchrony in population fluctuations, which may
provide crucial information about ecological processes driving population change. We …

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 …

Change points in the population trends of aerial-insectivorous birds in North America: synchronized in time across species and regions

AC Smith, MAR Hudson, CM Downes, CM Francis - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
North American populations of aerial insectivorous birds are in steep decline. Aerial
insectivores (AI) are a group of bird species that feed almost exclusively on insects in flight …

Nutritional composition of the preferred prey of insectivorous birds: popularity reflects quality

E Razeng, DM Watson - Journal of Avian Biology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Food availability is emerging as a key determinant of avian occurrence and habitat use in a
variety of systems, but insectivores have received less attention than other groups and the …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of open data in agriculture

J Chamorro-Padial, R García, R Gil - Computers and Electronics in …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this work, we perform a systematic literature review of Open Data and Public Domain
datasets in Agriculture. We use the PRISMA method to analyze the existing academic …

Experimental anthropogenic noise impacts avian parental behaviour, nestling growth and nestling oxidative stress

AS Injaian, CC Taff, GL Patricelli - Animal behaviour, 2018 - Elsevier
Human-produced noise, from transport, urbanization and industry, is widespread. Studies of
noise pollution show a wide range of effects on birds, such as alterations in communication …

Collapse of breeding success in desert-dwelling hornbills evident within a single decade

NB Pattinson, TMFN van de Ven, MJ Finnie… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Rapid anthropogenic climate change potentially severely reduces avian breeding success.
While the consequences of high temperatures and drought are reasonably well-studied …