Anthropogenic pollution is increasingly pervasive throughout all ecosystems worldwide. In
recent years, negative consequences on many taxa, such as birds, have been observed. We …

Water pollution has become one of the leading causes of human health problems. Low
molecular weight pollutants, even at trace concentrations in water sources, have aroused …

Human landscape transformation, especially urbanization, strongly affects ecosystems
worldwide. Both urban stressors and parasites have negative effects on organism health …

The human population is rapidly urbanizing, and the negative impacts of urban cover on
biodiversity and ecosystem function are expected to increase. Trophic dynamics have been …

The powerful owl (Ninox strenua) is a threatened apex predator that consumes mainly
arboreal marsupial prey. Low density populations reside in urban landscapes where their …

Urbanization is increasing at a rapid pace globally. Understanding the links among
environmental characteristics, phenotypes, and fitness enables researchers to predict the …

Urban environments are evolutionarily novel and differ from natural environments in many
respects including food and/or water availability, predation, noise, light, air quality …

Brilliant, diverse colour ornaments of birds were one of the crucial cues that led Darwin to
the idea of sexual selection. Although avian colouration plays many functions, including …

Stressing agents can cause morphophysiological and behavioural changes in several
animals, including birds, which are good study models for environmental biomonitoring. The …

Anthropogenic noise is a ubiquitous disturbance factor, which, owing to the extensive nature
of transportation networks, and ability of sound waves to penetrate distances, has wide …