Brain Size and Life History Interact to Predict Urban Tolerance in Birds

Generalists are the most urban-tolerant of birds: a phylogenetically controlled analysis of ecological and life history traits using a novel continuous measure of bird responses to urbanization

(2019) Corey T. Callaghan et al.   OIKOS

Behaviour, life history and persistence in novel environments

(2019) Joan Maspons et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrating behaviour and ecology into global biodiversity conservation strategies

(2019) Joseph A. Tobias et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Alternative ecological strategies lead to avian brain size bimodality in variable habitats

(2019) Trevor S. Fristoe et al.   Nature Communications

Predictable evolution towards larger brains in birds colonizing oceanic islands

(2018) Ferran Sayol et al.   Nature Communications

Are Urban Vertebrates City Specialists, Artificial Habitat Exploiters, or Environmental Generalists?

(2018) Simon Ducatez et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

One strategy does not fit all: determinants of urban adaptation in mammals

(2018) Luca Santini et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

What makes specialized food-caching mountain chickadees successful city slickers?

(2017) Dovid Y. Kozlovsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Big brains stabilize populations and facilitate colonization of variable habitats in birds

(2017) Trevor S. Fristoe et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Relative Brain Size and Its Relation with the Associative Pallium in Birds

(2016) Ferran Sayol et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Larger brain size indirectly increases vulnerability to extinction in mammals

(2016) Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer et al.   EVOLUTION

Light enough to travel or wise enough to stay? Brain size evolution and migratory behavior in birds

(2016) Orsolya Vincze   EVOLUTION

The life-history basis of behavioural innovations

(2016) Daniel Sol et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Brain size predicts problem-solving ability in mammalian carnivores

(2016) Sarah Benson-Amram et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds

(2016) Ferran Sayol et al.   Nature Communications

The town bird and the country bird: problem solving and immunocompetence vary with urbanization

(2015) Jean-Nicolas Audet et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

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

(2015) Svein Dale et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Brain size and urbanization in birds

(2015) Anders Pape Møller et al.   Avian Research

MCMC Methods for Multi-Response Generalized Linear Mixed Models: TheMCMCglmmRPackage

(2015) Jarrod D. Hadfield   Journal of Statistical Software

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

Using species co-occurrence patterns to quantify relative habitat breadth in terrestrial vertebrates

(2014) S. Ducatez et al.   Ecosphere

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Brains and the city in passerine birds: re-analysis and confirmation of the original result

(2013) A. A. Maklakov et al.   Biology Letters

Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments

(2012) Hélène Lowry et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unraveling the Life History of Successful Invaders

(2012) D. Sol et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

Colonisation of urban environments is associated with reduced migratory behaviour, facilitating divergence from ancestral populations

(2011) Karl L. Evans et al.   OIKOS

Exploring or Avoiding Novel Food Resources? The Novelty Conflict in an Invasive Bird

(2011) Daniel Sol et al.   PLoS One

Smart Moves: Effects of Relative Brain Size on Establishment Success of Invasive Amphibians and Reptiles

(2011) Joshua J. Amiel et al.   PLoS One

A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion

(2011) Karen C. Seto et al.   PLoS One

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

What makes an urban bird?

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

Technical innovations drive the relationship between innovativeness and residual brain size in birds

(2009) Sarah E. Overington et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2009) Anders Pape Møller   OECOLOGIA

Larger groups are more successful in innovative problem solving in house sparrows

(2009) A. Liker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Urban mockingbirds quickly learn to identify individual humans

(2009) D. J. Levey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Brain Size Predicts the Success of Mammal Species Introduced into Novel Environments

(2008) Daniel Sol et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Revisiting the cognitive buffer hypothesis for the evolution of large brains

(2008) D. Sol   Biology Letters

Brains, Lifestyles and Cognition: Are There General Trends?

(2008) Louis Lefebvre et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Life history buffering in Antarctic mammals and birds against changing patterns of climate and environmental variation

(2008) JAUME FORCADA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global Change and the Ecology of Cities

(2008) N. B. Grimm et al.   SCIENCE