The effects of urban life on animal immunity: Adaptations and constraints

P Minias - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Land transformation, including urbanization, is a dominant form of anthropogenic change to
the global environment at the dawn of the Anthropocene epoch. More and more species are …

Birds in arid regions have depauperate louse communities: Climate change implications?

SE Bush, MM Waller, KM Davis, SF Clayton… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental factors such as temperature and humidity influence the distribution of free‐
living organisms. As climates change, the distributions of these organisms change along …

[HTML][HTML] Unveiling the urban colonization of the Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) across its distribution range using citizen science

Á Luna, A Rausell-Moreno - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Background This study aims to investigate the urban colonization of the Asian water monitor
(Varanus salvator) across its entire range of distribution, addressing the paucity of research …

Co‐parasitism in the face of predation: Effects of natural enemies on a neotropical mockingbird

JM Herman, VD Fiorini, I Crudele… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Co‐parasitism is ubiquitous and has important consequences for the ecology and evolution
of wild host populations. Studies of parasite co‐infections remain limited in scope, with few …

Explorational analysis of the abundance and prevalence of chigger and gamasid mites parasitic on small mammals in Vietnam

AA Antonovskaia, EP Altshuler… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We studied chigger and gamasid mite loads on small mammals during the dry season in
Vietnam and used both our field data and museum collections to estimate the influence of …

Health Assessment of Three Species of Free-Living Raptors Inhabiting a Pampas Agroecosystem in Central Argentina

MD Saggese, SL Deem, H Ferreyra… - Journal of Raptor …, 2025 - meridian.allenpress.com
Resumen EVALUACIÓN DEL ESTADO DE SALUD EN TRES ESPECIES DE AVES
RAPACES DE VIDA LIBRE DE UN AGROECOSISTEMA PAMPEANO EN EL CENTRO DE …

From green spaces to concrete jungles: exploring the influence of urbanisation on arthropod communities in bird nests

LF Baardsen - 2024 - repository.uantwerpen.be
Urbanization has profound effects on ecological interactions and the composition of various
taxa, including arthropod communities. Recent research has endeavoured to examine …

Distribution and Habitat Use by Western Burrowing Owls (Athene Cunicularia Hypugaea) in Alameda, Contra Costa and San Joaquin Counties, California

J Taylor - 2023 - search.proquest.com
Grasslands are regularly altered for development, agriculture, and animal farming which
leads to habitat destruction and fragmentation and, ultimately, a loss of wildlife species …

[PDF][PDF] Co-occurrence of Amblyomma cordiferum Neumann and Amblyomma helvolum Koch (Ixodida: Ixodidae) on Elaphe carinata (Günther)(Squamata: Colubridae) …

AKS Amarga, RG Robbins - rnhm.org
Elaphe carinata (Günther), the Taiwan stink snake, is a colubrid species native to East Asia
and Southeast Asia, where it is known to host various Asiatic tick species. This study …