How to Become a Generalist Species? Individual Niche Variation Across Habitat Transformation Gradients

The worldwide impact of urbanisation on avian functional diversity

(2020) Daniel Sol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Environmental stress shapes life-history variation in the swelled-vented frog (Feirana quadranus)

(2019) Xiaoyi Wang et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Niches in the Anthropocene: passerine assemblages show niche expansion from natural to urban habitats

(2019) Emilio Pagani‐Núñez et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Urban exploiters have broader dietary niches than urban avoiders

(2019) Facundo Xavier Palacio   IBIS

Beyond trophic morphology: stable isotopes reveal ubiquitous versatility in marine turtle trophic ecology

(2019) Christine Figgener et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Spatial patterns in habitat specialization of European bird communities

(2019) Javier Rivas-Salvador et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Ecological opportunity drives individual dietary specialization in leopards

(2019) Guy A. Balme et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

From wetland specialist to hand-fed generalist: shifts in diet and condition with provisioning for a recently urbanized wading bird

(2018) Maureen H. Murray et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Multidimensional nutritional ecology and urban birds

(2018) Sean C. P. Coogan et al.   Ecosphere

Inferring ecological explanations for biogeographic boundaries of parapatric Asian mountain frogs

(2018) Junhua Hu et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

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

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

Breath rate of passerines across an urbanization gradient supports the pace-of-life hypothesis and suggests diet-mediated responses to handling stress

(2018) Dan Liang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

China's Environment on a Metacoupled Planet

(2018) Jianguo Liu et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Widespread winners and narrow-ranged losers: Land use homogenizes biodiversity in local assemblages worldwide

(2018) Tim Newbold et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Individual diet variation in a marine fish assemblage: Optimal Foraging Theory, Niche Variation Hypothesis and functional identity

(2017) M. Cachera et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Shifting individual habitat specialization of a successful predator living in anthropogenic landscapes

(2017) J Navarro et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Shifting individual habitat specialization of a successful predator living in anthropogenic landscapes

(2017) J Navarro et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Different prey resources suggest little competition between non-native frogs and insectivorous birds despite isotopic niche overlap

(2016) Robyn L. Smith et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

The life-history basis of behavioural innovations

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

Multi-tissue stable-isotope analyses can identify dietary specialization

(2016) Alexander L. Bond et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Latitudinal variation in ecological opportunity and intraspecific competition indicates differences in niche variability and diet specialization of Arctic marine predators

(2016) David J. Yurkowski et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The empty temporal niche: breeding phenology differs between coexisting native and invasive birds

(2015) Ana Sanz-Aguilar et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Individual-level niche specialization within populations: emerging areas of study

(2015) Craig A. Layman et al.   OECOLOGIA

Diet specialization in a generalist population: the case of breeding great tits Parus major in the Mediterranean area

(2015) E. Pagani-Núñez et al.   OECOLOGIA

The interaction of intraspecific competition and habitat on individual diet specialization: a near range-wide examination of sea otters

(2015) Seth D. Newsome et al.   OECOLOGIA

Stable Isotope Turnover and Half-Life in Animal Tissues: A Literature Synthesis

(2015) M. Jake Vander Zanden et al.   PLoS One

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

Avian claw morphometry and growth determine the temporal pattern of archived stable isotopes

(2014) Steffen Hahn et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

RInSp: anrpackage for the analysis of individual specialization in resource use

(2013) Nicola Zaccarelli et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

On the Use of Stable Isotopes in Trophic Ecology

(2011) William J. Boecklen et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Applying stable isotopes to examine food-web structure: an overview of analytical tools

(2011) Craig A. Layman et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The ecological causes of individual specialisation

(2011) Márcio S. Araújo et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion

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

A New Species of the Genus Feirana (Amphibia: Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Western Qinling Mountains of China

(2011) YANG Xin et al.   Asian Herpetological Research

Impacts of traffic noise on anuran and bird communities

(2011) Maria Isabel Herrera-Montes et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Worldwide decline of specialist species: toward a global functional homogenization?

(2010) Joanne Clavel et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Overlap and partitioning of the ecological and isotopic niches

(2010) Elizabeth A. Flaherty et al.   OIKOS

Intrapopulation niche partitioning in a generalist predator limits food web connectivity

(2009) Mario Quevedo et al.   ECOLOGY

Niches versus neutrality: uncovering the drivers of diversity in a species-rich community

(2009) Remi Vergnon et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Individual-level diet variation in four species of Brazilian frogs

(2009) M. S. Araújo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa

(2008) Dan F. B. Flynn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Applications of stable isotope analyses to avian ecology

(2008) RICHARD INGER et al.   IBIS

Landscape heterogeneity and marine subsidy generate extensive intrapopulation niche diversity in a large terrestrial vertebrate

(2008) Chris T. Darimont et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Distribution of specialist and generalist species along spatial gradients of habitat disturbance and fragmentation

(2008) Vincent Devictor et al.   OIKOS

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Functional biotic homogenization of bird communities in disturbed landscapes

(2007) Vincent Devictor et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY