Urbanization poses a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. We focused on birds as a well-
studied taxon of interest, in order to review literature on traits that influence responses to …

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 …

Stressors associated with urban habitats have been linked to poor wildlife health but
whether a general negative relationship between urbanization and animal health can be …

Urbanisation is a world‐wide phenomenon converting natural habitats into new artificial
ones. Environmental conditions associated with urbanisation represent great challenges for …

Urbanization transforms many aspects of natural landscapes and poses many new
challenges for individual survival and population persistence. Thus, urbanization provides …

Urban sprawl is one of the most common landscape alterations occurring worldwide, and
there is a growing list of species that are recognised to have adapted to urban life. To be …

Extensive transformation of natural land cover into urbanized areas enhances accumulation
of phenotypic differences between animals from urban and nonurban populations, but there …

Neophobia (ie the degree of avoidance to novel situations) is a personality trait that may
predict the ability to exploit new resources, which potentially affects the success of …

Although flight initiation distance (FID) has been shown to be shorter in urban compared to
rural populations of birds, less is known about how the characteristics of the urban …

Eggshell pigmentation is generated by 2 major pigments, biliverdin and protoporphyrin. The
latter is mostly deposited in red, brown, and black egg spots and it has been hypothesized …