Urban health and ecology: the promise of an avian biomonitoring tool

Seasons and neighborhoods of high lead toxicity in New York City: The feral pigeon as a bioindicator

(2016) Fayme Cai et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

How do ecologists select and use indicator species to monitor ecological change? Insights from 14 years of publication in Ecological Indicators

(2016) Ahmed A.H. Siddig et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Negative impact of urban habitat on immunity in the great tit Parus major

(2016) Juliette Bailly et al.   OECOLOGIA

Get off my lawn: increased aggression in urban song sparrows is related to resource availability

(2015) Sarah L. Foltz et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Linking anthropogenic resources to wildlife-pathogen dynamics: a review and meta-analysis

(2015) Daniel J. Becker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Urbanization, oxidative stress and inflammation: a question of evolving, acclimatizing or coping with urban environmental stress

(2015) Caroline Isaksson   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Influence of Urbanization on Body Size, Condition, and Physiology in an Urban Exploiter: A Multi-Component Approach

(2015) Alizée Meillère et al.   PLoS One

Heavy metals in selected tissues and histopathological changes in liver and kidney of common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus) from Anzali Wetland, the south Caspian Sea, Iran

(2014) Negin Salamat et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of emerging and classical flame retardants in bird eggs of 14 species from Doñana Natural Space and surrounding areas (South-western Spain)

(2014) E. Barón et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

The effect of lead intoxication on endocrine functions

(2014) K. K. Doumouchtsis et al.   JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION

Does urban life change blood oxidative status in birds?

(2014) D. Costantini et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Novel Aspects of Glucocorticoid Actions

(2014) E. T. Uchoa et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Parasites in the City: Degree of Urbanization Predicts Poxvirus and Coccidian Infections in House Finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)

(2014) Mathieu Giraudeau et al.   PLoS One

Brominated and phosphorus flame retardants in White-tailed Eagle Haliaeetus albicilla nestlings: Bioaccumulation and associations with dietary proxies (δ13C, δ15N and δ34S)

(2014) Igor Eulaers et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Relationships Between Metals Exposure and Epidemiological Parameters of Two Pathogens in Urban Pigeons

(2013) J. Gasparini et al.   BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Species-specific accumulation of halogenated flame retardants in eggs of terrestrial birds from an ecological station in the Pearl River Delta, South China

(2013) Yu-Xin Sun et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Urbanization and its effects on personality traits: a result of microevolution or phenotypic plasticity?

(2013) Ana Catarina Miranda et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Candidate gene polymorphisms for behavioural adaptations during urbanization in blackbirds

(2013) J. C. Mueller et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Urbanization, Trace Metal Pollution, and Malaria Prevalence in the House Sparrow

(2013) Coraline Bichet et al.   PLoS One

The Viruses of Wild Pigeon Droppings

(2013) Tung Gia Phan et al.   PLoS One

Legacy and current-use brominated flame retardants in the Barn Owl

(2013) Igor Eulaers et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Local and Landscape-Level Factors Affecting the Density and Distribution of the Feral PigeonColumba liviavar.domesticain an Urban Environment

(2012) Katarzyna Przybylska et al.   ACTA ORNITHOLOGICA

Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation

(2012) Jonathan W. Atwell et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Partitioning of Cd and Pb in the blood of European blackbirds (Turdus merula) from a smelter contaminated site and use for biomonitoring

(2012) Michaël Coeurdassier et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Dietary exposure to technical hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) alters courtship, incubation and parental behaviors in American kestrels (Falco sparverius)

(2012) Sarah C. Marteinson et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Ecological implications of behavioural syndromes

(2012) Andrew Sih et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Contrasting levels of heavy metals in the feathers of urban pigeons from close habitats suggest limited movements at a restricted scale

(2012) Adrien Frantz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

After the PBDE Phase-Out: A Broad Suite of Flame Retardants in Repeat House Dust Samples from California

(2012) Robin E. Dodson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Hormones in the city: Endocrine ecology of urban birds

(2012) Frances Bonier   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis

(2012) Stephen S Morse et al.   LANCET

Bringing together emerging and endemic zoonoses surveillance: shared challenges and a common solution

(2012) J. Halliday et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brain Arginine Vasotocin Immunoreactivity Differs between Urban and Desert Curve-Billed Thrashers, Toxostoma curvirostre: Relationships with Territoriality and Stress Physiology

(2011) H. Bobby Fokidis et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Comparative Tissue Distribution of Heavy Metals in House Sparrow (Passer domesticus, Aves) in Polluted and Reference Sites in Turkey

(2011) Tamer Albayrak et al.   BULLETIN OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY

Diet exposure to technical hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) affects testes and circulating testosterone and thyroxine levels in American kestrels (Falco sparverius)

(2011) Sarah C. Marteinson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Urban habituation, ecological connectivity and epidemic dampening: the emergence of Hendra virus from flying foxes (Pteropus spp.)

(2011) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A global review of polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardant contamination in birds

(2010) Da Chen et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Lead pellet retention time and associated toxicity in northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus)

(2010) Richard Kerr et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Factors Associated With the Risk of West Nile Virus Among Crows in New York State

(2010) C. H. DeCarlo et al.   Zoonoses and Public Health

The Deadly Chytrid Fungus: A Story of an Emerging Pathogen

(2010) Erica Bree Rosenblum et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Growth and nutritional state of American Crow nestlings vary between urban and rural habitats

(2009) Rebecca S. Heiss et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments

(2009) Mark A. Goddard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

CADMIUM, LEAD, AND MERCURY LEVELS IN FEATHERS OF SMALL PASSERINE BIRDS: NONINVASIVE SAMPLING STRATEGY

(2008) Nicola Bianchi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Corticosterone and corticosteroid binding globulin in birds: Relation to urbanization in a desert city

(2008) H. Bobby Fokidis et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

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

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

Lean birds in the city: body size and condition of house sparrows along the urbanization gradient

(2008) A. Liker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY