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Does urbanization cause stress in wild birds during development? Insights from feather corticosterone levels in juvenile house sparrows (
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- The impact of urbanization on health depends on the health metric, life stage and level of urbanization: a global meta-analysis on avian species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Pooled it
- Stress in the city: meta-analysis indicates no overall evidence for stress in urban vertebrates.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Pooled it
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- Urbanization and the Gut Microbiome: Insights From the Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) in California.Integrative and comparative biology · 2025Article
- Artificial light at night weakens body condition but does not negatively affect physiological markers of health in great tits.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Exploring stress and morphology in two songbird species across urban, agricultural, and natural habitats on San Cristobal Island, Galapagos.BMC zoology · 2025Article
- Feather corticosterone levels in the southern lapwing revealed no association with the degree of urbanization.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Urbanization enhances body condition, but not innate immune defences, in a common waterbird.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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- To Flee or Not to Flee: How Age, Reproductive Phase, and Mate Presence Affect White Stork Flight Decisions.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Feather corticosterone reveals that urban great tits experience lower corticosterone exposure than forest individuals during dominance-rank establishment.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Innate immune function and antioxidant capacity of nestlings of an African raptor covary with the level of urbanisation around breeding territories.The Journal of animal ecology · 2023Article
- Stress in wildlife: comparison of the stress response among domestic, captive, and free-ranging animals.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Review
- Dopamine receptor activation elicits a possible stress-related coping behavior in a wild-caught songbird.PeerJ · 2022Article
- Avian corticosteroid-binding globulin: biological function and regulatory mechanisms in physiological stress responses.Frontiers in zoology · 2021Review
- Physiological and morphological correlates of blood parasite infection in urban and non-urban house sparrow populations.PloS one · 2020Article
- Does urbanization cause stress in wild birds during development? Insights from feather corticosterone levels in juvenile house sparrows (Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
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Abstract
Urban landscapes are associated with abiotic and biotic environmental changes that may result in potential stressors for wild vertebrates. Urban exploiters have physiological, morphological, and behavioral adaptations to live in cities. However, there is increasing evidence that urban exploiters themselves can suffer from urban conditions, especially during specific life-history stages. We looked for a link between the degree of urbanization and the level of developmental stress in an urban exploiter (the house sparrow,
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