Commonness and ecology, but not bigger brains, predict urban living in birds

Urbanisation tolerance and the loss of avian diversity

(2014) Daniel Sol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological generalism and behavioural innovation in birds: technical intelligence or the simple incorporation of new foods?

(2014) Simon Ducatez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evolution of sperm structure and energetics in passerine birds

(2013) M. Rowe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Are Reserves Enough? Value of Protected Areas for Boreal Forest Birds in Southeastern Norway

(2012) Astrid Haavik et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

High urban population density of birds reflects their timing of urbanization

(2012) Anders Pape Møller et al.   OECOLOGIA

Brains and the city: big-brained passerine birds succeed in urban environments

(2011) A. A. Maklakov et al.   Biology Letters

Inter-Individual Variability in Fear of Humans and Relative Brain Size of the Species Are Related to Contemporary Urban Invasion in Birds

(2011) Martina Carrete et al.   PLoS One

Resolving variation in the reproductive tradeoff between sperm size and number

(2011) S. Immler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

What makes an urban bird?

(2010) KARL L. EVANS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Divergence in Brain Size between Migratory and Resident Birds

(2010) Daniel Sol et al.   PLoS One

The Role of Propagule Pressure in Biological Invasions

(2009) Daniel Simberloff   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Successful city dwellers: a comparative study of the ecological characteristics of urban birds in the Western Palearctic

(2009) Anders Pape Møller   OECOLOGIA

Independent colonization of multiple urban centres by a formerly forest specialist bird species

(2009) K. L. Evans et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flight distance and population trends in European breeding birds

(2008) Anders Pape Møller   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

DOES URBANIZATION FILTER BIRDS ON THE BASIS OF THEIR BIOLOGICAL TRAITS?

(2008) SOLÈNE CROCI et al.   CONDOR

The role of species traits in the establishment success of exotic birds

(2008) TIM M. BLACKBURN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Habitat influences on urban avian assemblages

(2008) KARL L. EVANS et al.   IBIS

Avian productivity in urban landscapes: a review and meta-analysis

(2008) D. E. CHAMBERLAIN et al.   IBIS