ArticleEvolutionary applications2021
Growing in the city: Urban evolutionary ecology of avian growth rates.
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- Adjusting to urban stress: How Eurasian tree sparrows modulate multiple physiological and nutritional markers across sexes.Current zoology · 2025Article
- Gut microbiome variation in juvenile blue tits in a European urban mosaic.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Urban developmental environments alter tadpole phenotypes depending on origin.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Continental Patterns of Phenotypic Variation Along Replicated Urban Gradients: A Mega-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2025Review
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- Haemosporidian intensity and nestlings' life-history along an urban-to-rural gradient.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Ecological drivers of nesting behavior in a subtropical city: An observational study on spotted doves.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- The magnitude of selection on growth varies among years and increases under warming conditions in a subarctic seabird.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Extra-pair paternity, breeding density, and synchrony in natural cavities versus nestboxes in two passerine birds.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Urban tree composition is associated with breeding success of a passerine bird, but effects vary within and between years.Oecologia · 2023Article
- Breeding in the pandemic: short-term lockdown restrictions in a European capital city did not alter the life-history traits of two urban adapters.Urban ecosystems · 2022Article
- Double-brooding and annual breeding success of great tits in urban and forest habitats.Current zoology · 2022Article
- Growth model analysis of wild hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) nestlings based on long-term monitoring in the Brazilian Pantanal.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Are behaviour and stress-related phenotypes in urban birds adaptive?The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionRapid environmental change driven by urbanization offers a unique insight into the adaptive potential of urban-dwelling organisms. Urban-driven phenotypic differentiation is increasingly often demonstrated, but the impact of urbanization (here modelled as the percentage of impervious surface (ISA) around each nestbox) on offspring developmental rates and subsequent survival remains poorly understood. Furthermore, the role of selection on urban-driven phenotypic divergence was rarely investigated to date. METHODS AND
resultsData on nestling development and body mass were analysed in a gradient of urbanization set in Warsaw, Poland, in two passerine species: great tits ( DISCUSSION: This study confirms the considerable negative impact of imperviousness-a proxy for urbanization level-on offspring development, body mass and survival, and highlights increased selection on avian mass at hatching in a high ISA environment.
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