Humans have altered ecosystems worldwide, and it is important to understand how this land
use change impacts infectious disease transmission in humans and animals. We conducted …

Around the world the development and growth of cities and towns are having a significant
impact on local and global biodiversity. There is growing interest in the adaptation of …

Sturkie's Avian Physiology is the classic comprehensive single volume on the physiology of
domestic as well as wild birds. The Sixth Edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and …

Novel or changing environments expose animals to diverse stressors that likely require
coordinated hormonal and behavioral adaptations. Predicted adaptations to urban …

Over the past few decades, there has been a steep increase in the number of conservation-
related field studies that measure glucocorticoid hormones (corticosterone or cortisol) as a …

Human‐induced landscape change associated with habitat loss and fragmentation places
wildlife populations at risk. One issue in these landscapes is a change in the prevalence of …

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 …

Rates of urbanization are accelerating worldwide. The increases in temperature associated
with 'urban heat island'effects provide both an ecological imperative and a unique …

The concept of a pace‐of‐life syndrome describes inter‐and intraspecific variation in several
life‐history traits along a slow‐to‐fast pace‐of‐life continuum, with long lifespans, low …

Urbanization dramatically changes the landscape, presenting organisms with novel
challenges and often leading to reduced species diversity. Urban ecologists have …