There is a growing recognition that animal behavior can affect wildlife conservation, but
there have been few direct studies of animal behavior in conservation programs. However, a …

From its first appearance in early vertebrates, the spine evolved the function of protecting the
spinal cord, avoiding excessive straining during body motion. Its stiffness and strength …

Ecologists studying bird foraging ecology have generally focused on food quantity over
quality. Emerging work suggests that food quality, in terms of highly unsaturated omega‐3 …

The first comprehensive review of all aspects of the biology of moult, drawing information
from across the literature and in all birds, from penguins to passerines. Feathers are …

Powered flight evolved independently in vertebrates in the pterosaurs, birds and bats, each
of which has a different configuration of the bony elements and epidermal structures that …

Enantiornithes are the most successful group of Mesozoic birds, arguably representing the
first global avian radiation, 1–4 and commonly resolved as the sister to the Ornithuromorpha …

Avian wing shape is highly variable across species but only coarsely associated with flight
behavior, performance, and body mass. An underexplored but potentially explanatory …

The explosive radiation of early birds has been well documented by the extraordinary
discoveries of the Early Cretaceous fossil birds in China in the past three decades. They …

The Cretaceous is a critical time interval that encompasses explosive diversifications of
terrestrial vertebrates, particularly the period when the earliest-branching birds, after …

Spatial genetic structure (SGS) of plants results from the nonrandom distribution of related
individuals. SGS provides information on gene flow and spatial patterns of genetic diversity …