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Wesley G. Gush, Auteur ; David H. Maphisa, Auteur ; Chevonne Reynolds, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, AuteurRudd’s Lark Heteromirafra ruddi is a globally threatened species endemic to eastern South Africa’s highland grasslands, where climate envelope modelling has predicted a dramatic reduction in its already small and fragmented distribution. Here we[...]
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Wenfei Tong, Auteur ; Nicholas P. C. Horrocks, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, AuteurHosts of brood-parasitic birds typically evolve anti-parasitism defences, including mobbing of parasitic intruders at the nest and the ability to recognize and reject foreign eggs from their clutches. The Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator i[...]
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Wenfei Tong, Auteur ; Nicholas P. C. Horrocks, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, AuteurHosts of brood-parasitic birds typically evolve anti-parasitism defences, including mobbing of parasitic intruders at the nest and the ability to recognize and reject foreign eggs from their clutches. The Greater Honeyguide Indicator indicator i[...]
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Antagonistic effect of helpers on breeding male and female survival in a cooperatively breeding bird
Matthieu Paquet, Auteur ; Claire Doutrelant, Auteur ; Ben J. Hatchwell, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Rita Covas, AuteurCooperatively breeding species are typically long lived and hence, according to theory, are expected to maximize their lifetime reproductive success through maximizing survival. Under these circumstances, the presence of helpers could be used to[...]
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Joseph A. Tobias, Auteur ; Nathalie Seddon, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; John D. Pilgrim, Auteur ; Lincoln D. C. Fishpool, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, AuteurSpecies are the fundamental units of biology, ecology and conservation, and progress in these fields is therefore hampered by widespread taxonomic bias and uncertainty. Numerous operational techniques based on molecular or phenotypic data have b[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Yilma Dellelegn Abebe, Auteur ; Merid N. Gabremichael, Auteur ; M. A. Kiragu Mwangi, Auteur ; Paul Kariuki Ndang'ang'a, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Mengistu Wondafrash, AuteurThe Critically Endangered Liben Lark (formerly Sidamo Lark) is known only from the Liben Plain of southern Ethiopia, where rapid grassland deterioration is driving the species towards extinction. Fieldwork on the Liben Plain in May 2009 to asses[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Yilma Dellelegn Abebe, Auteur ; Merid N. Gabremichael, Auteur ; M. A. Kiragu Mwangi, Auteur ; Paul Kariuki Ndang'ang'a, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Mengistu Wondafrash, Auteur
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Marjorie C. Sorensen, Auteur ; Muhammad Asghar, Auteur ; Staffan Bensch, Auteur ; Graham D. Fairhurst, Auteur ; Susanne Jenni-Eiermann, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, AuteurMalaria parasites can have strong effects on the population dynamics and evolution of migratory bird species. In many species, parasite transmission occurs on the wintering grounds, but studies to determine the consequences of infection have tak[...]
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Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Urban Olsson, Auteur ; Michael S. L. Mills, Auteur ; Callan Cohen, Auteur ; Julian E. Francis, Auteur ; Negussie Toye, Auteur ; David Hoddinott, Auteur ; Abiy Dagne, Auteur ; Chris Wood, Auteur ; Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Per Alström, AuteurThe African lark genus Heteromirafra is thought to consist of three threatened species inhabiting mid-altitude grasslands, one in South Africa and two in the Horn of Africa. One of the latter, Archer's Lark H. archeri of Somaliland, has not been[...]
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Paul F. Donald, Auteur ; Kai Gedeon, Auteur ; Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Mengistu Wondafrash, Auteur ; Graeme M. Buchanan, AuteurWe attempt to describe and explain the peculiarly restricted distribution of the globally threatened Ethiopian Bush-crow Zavattariornis stresemanni. At a regional scale, models containing only correlates of land cover suggested a far wider distr[...]
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Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; I. Hassam Patel, Auteur ; Eric Herrmann, Auteur ; Jonathan Timberlake, Auteur ; Julian Bayliss, AuteurThe montane forests of northern Mozambique and southern Malawi support several bird species of global conservation concern, and particularly in Malawi are seriously threatened by deforestation. However, the status of these in northern Mozambique[...]
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Nigel J. Collar, Auteur ; Lincoln D. C. Fishpool, Auteur ; Josep del Hoyo, Auteur ; John D. Pilgrim, Auteur ; Nathalie Seddon, Auteur ; Claire N. Spottiswoode, Auteur ; Joseph A. Tobias, Auteur
