The world is struggling to solve a devastating biodiversity loss that not only affects the
extinction of treasured species and irreplaceable genetic variation, but also jeopardizes the …

Fecal contamination of water constitutes a serious health risk to humans and environmental
ecosystems. This is mainly due to the fact that fecal material carries a variety of …

Trophic niche partitioning is a mechanism that facilitates the coexistence of ecologically
similar species by sharing their resource use. However, detailed information of the trophic …

Abstract Knowledge of feeding ecology of declining species, such as farmland birds, is
essential to address their conservation requirements, especially when their habitats are …

Examination of faecal material has demonstrated how a broad range of organisms are
distributed by bird movements. Such research has largely focused on dispersal of plant …

Simple Summary Zoonoses are a growing threat to human health. Therefore, their
surveillance is especially important in densely populated areas such as cities. Modern cities …

Monitoring zoonoses in urban environments is of great relevance, where the incidence of
certain pathogens may be higher and where population density makes the spread of any …

The intensification of agriculture is impacting farmland and is recognised as a main driver for
biodiversity loss in these environments. Many farmland bird populations have been …

The migratory and omnivorous common crane (Grus grus) uses a nature reserve with crucial
ecological value that provides supplementary food resources, although the extent of their …

What are the relative costs and benefits of mounting immune responses? Practitioners of
ecoimmunology have grappled with this central question since the field's inception with the …