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  1. Spatio-temporal hotspots of wildlife-vehicle collisions in Poland: How congruent are mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians?
  2. Identifying Landscape Characteristics That Maximize Ecosystem Services Provision
  3. Use of synanthropic roosts by bats in Europe and North America
  4. Comparison of hunting site strategies of the common buzzard Buteo buteo in open landscapes and along expressways
  5. Conservation of more evolutionary unique amphibian communities in Türkiye: The role of protected areas
  6. Dynamic interactions at birdfeeders: Attracting both prey and predators across urban and rural habitats
  7. Crepuscular and small but not evolutionary unique species are the reptiles less affected by roadkill in Europe
  8. Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence
  9. Global distribution range of birds is negatively correlated with their level of diet specialization
  10. A meta-analysis of the relationship between flock size and flight initiation distance in birds
  11. Urban noise slows down the antipredator reaction of Eurasian Magpies
  12. An extensive database on the traits and occurrences of amphibian species in Turkey
  13. Dense city centers support less evolutionary unique bird communities than sparser urban areas
  14. Little Owl Aggression and Territory in Urban and Rural Landscapes
  15. Ecological filtering shapes the impacts of agricultural deforestation on biodiversity
  16. Which bird traits most affect the goodness-of-fit of species distribution models?
  17. Climate change is associated with asynchrony in arrival between two sympatric cuckoos and both host arrival and prey emergence
  18. Urban landscape organization is associated with species-specific traits in European birds
  19. Effects of human depopulation and warming climate on bird populations in Japan
  20. Potential hotspots of amphibian roadkill risk in Spain
  21. Population trends of ground-nesting birds indicate increasing environmental impacts from Eastern to Western Europe: different patterns for open-habitat and woodland species
  22. Spatial Overlap and Habitat Selection of Corvid Species in European Cities
  23. Effects of light and noise pollution on avian communities of European cities are correlated with the species’ diet
  24. EVI and NDVI as proxies for multifaceted avian diversity in urban areas
  25. Are birds more afraid in urban parks or cemeteries? A Latin American study contrasts with results from Europe
  26. Bird diversity-environment relationships in urban parks and cemeteries of the Neotropics during breeding and non-breeding seasons
  27. Large‐scale spatial variability in urban tolerance of birds
  28. Estrategias de escape de aves en ambientes urbanos
  29. Habitat-specific diversity in Central European birds
  30. Flight initiation distance and refuge in urban birds
  31. Occupancy-frequency distribution of birds in land-sharing and -sparing urban landscapes in Europe
  32. Assessing protected area network effectiveness through the temporal change in avian communities’ composition
  33. Urban birds’ flight responses were unaffected by the COVID-19 shutdowns
  34. Birds’ ecological characteristics differ among habitats: an analysis based on national citizen science data
  35. Resident birds are more behaviourally plastic than migrants
  36. Spatial Distribution and Habitat Overlap of Five Columbidae Species in the Czech Republic
  37. Detection Rate of Bird Species and What It Depends on: Tips for Field Surveys
  38. How are Natura 2000 protected areas covering different components of avian diversity in Spain?
  39. Top ten birds indicators of high environmental quality in European cities
  40. Effects of urbanization on taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic avian diversity in Europe
  41. Face mask-wear did not affect large-scale patterns in escape and alertness of urban and rural birds during the COVID-19 pandemic
  42. Distribution and protection of avian specialization in Europe
  43. Sacred oak woods increase bird diversity and specialization: Links with the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
  44. Electric vehicles minimize disturbance to mammals
  45. Selection of Urbanized Areas by Magpie Pica pica in a Medium Size City in Poland
  46. On the origin of species on road warning signs: A global perspective
  47. Eiders, nutrients and eagles: Bottom‐up and top‐down population dynamics in a marine bird
  48. Urban tolerance of birds changes throughout the full annual cycle
  49. Behavioural Responses of Adult and Young White Storks Ciconia ciconia in Nests to an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
  50. Global distribution and conservation of avian diet specialization
  51. Urban tolerance of birds changes throughout the full annual cycle
  52. Historical natural disturbances shape spruce primary forest structure and indirectly influence bird assemblage composition
  53. Validation of a globally-applicable method to measure urban tolerance of birds using citizen science data
  54. Urban birds
  55. Avian roadkills occur regardless of bird evolutionary uniqueness across Europe
  56. A large‐scale survey of bird plumage colour aberrations reveals a collection bias in Internet‐mined photographs
  57. Combining the potential resilience of avian communities with climate change scenarios to identify areas of conservation concern
  58. A forecasting map of avian roadkill-risk in Europe: A tool to identify potential hotspots
  59. Avian trait specialization is negatively associated with urban tolerance
  60. Ecological specialization and population trends in European breeding birds
  61. Tick parasitism is associated with home range area in the sand lizard, Lacerta agilis
  62. Amphibian diversity in Polish cities: Taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and evolutionary distinctiveness
  63. Dung beetles: functional identity, not functional diversity, accounts for ecological process disruption caused by the use of veterinary medical products
  64. Diet specialization and brood parasitism in cuckoo species
  65. Biodiversity within the city: Effects of land sharing and land sparing urban development on avian diversity
  66. Editorial: Partitioning the Effects of Urbanization on Biodiversity: Beyond Wildlife Behavioural Responses to a Multilevel Assessment of Community Changes in Taxonomic, Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity
  67. Insurance for the future? Potential avian community resilience in cities across Europe
  68. Land‐sharing vs. land‐sparing urban development modulate predator–prey interactions in Europe
  69. Spatial associations among avian diversity, regulating and provisioning ecosystem services in Italy
  70. Bird response to woody pastoral management of ancient chestnut orchards: A case study from the southern Alps
  71. Functional evenness of bird communities varies along the elevational gradient in Europe: Conservation implications
  72. Avian trait specialization is negatively associated with urban tolerance
  73. Human-Leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) Co-Existence in Jhalana Forest Reserve, India
  74. A simple measure to quantify species specialization
  75. The Holy Grail is just a myth! Response to Haest 2019
  76. Ecotourism affects breeding in sergeant major damselfish (Abudefduf saxatilis)
  77. Contagious fear: Escape behavior increases with flock size in European gregarious birds
  78. Make EU trade with Brazil sustainable
  79. Global congruence between cuckoo species richness and biodiversity hotspots
  80. Towards an integrative approach to evaluate the environmental ecosystem services provided by urban forest
  81. Comparative urbanization of birds in China and Europe based on birds associated with trees
  82. Spatial distribution of animal roadkills
  83. Congruence between breeding and wintering biodiversity hotspots: A case study in farmlands of Western Poland
  84. Cemeteries support avian diversity likewise urban parks in European cities: Assessing taxonomic, evolutionary and functional diversity
  85. Diet and habitat affinities in six raptor species in India
  86. Functional significance of cuckoo Cuculus canorus calls: responses of conspecifics, hosts and non-hosts
  87. Is vertebrate mortality correlated to potential permeability by underpasses along low-traffic roads?
  88. Number of syllables in cuckoo Cuculus canorus calls: A test using a citizen science project
  89. Birds adapt escape behavior against humans in parks and cemeteries.
  90. Ionizing radiation and taxonomic, functional and evolutionary diversity of bird communities
  91. Birds respond similarly to taxidermic models and live cuckoos Cuculus canorus
  92. High nature value farmland increases taxonomic diversity, functional richness and evolutionary uniqueness of bird communities
  93. Landscape heterogeneity measures as indicators of avian diversity
  94. Food preferences by birds using bird-feeders in winter: a large-scale experiment
  95. Associations among taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and evolutionary distinctiveness vary among environments
  96. Real-time distribution of pelagic fish: combining hydroacoustics, GIS and spatial modelling at a fine spatial scale
  97. Cuckoos host range is associated positively with distribution range and negatively with evolutionary uniqueness
  98. Effects of habitat and time of day on flock size of Turkey Vultures in Cuba (Cathartes aura)
  99. Multiple species of cuckoos are superior predictors of bird species richness in Asia
  100. Spatial covariance between ecosystem services and biodiversity pattern at a national scale (France)
  101. Cuckoos vs. top predators as prime bioindicators of biodiversity in disturbed environments
  102. Bird diversity in urban green space: A large-scale analysis of differences between parks and cemeteries in Central Europe
  103. Neglected effects of transport corridors: attractiveness to wildlife and role in conservation planning
  104. Pattern of evolutionarily distinct species among four classes of animals and their conservation status: a comparison using evolutionary distinctiveness scores
  105. Spatial mismatch analysis among hotspots of alien plant species, road and railway networks in Germany and Austria
  106. The common cuckoo is an effective indicator of high bird species richness in Asia and Europe
  107. Social media and scientific research are complementary—YouTube and shrikes as a case study
  108. Taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and evolutionary uniqueness in bird communities of Beijing's urban parks: Effects of land use and vegetation structure
  109. Water on the Fen Mire as a Problem in the Protection of Globally Threatened Species: Long-Term Changes in Aquatic Warbler Numbers
  110. Seasonal changes in avian communities living in an extensively used farmland of Western Poland
  111. Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands
  112. Introduction
  113. Discussion and Final Considerations
  114. Suitable Methods for Monitoring HNV Farmland Using Bird Species
  115. Case Study 3. Using Indicator Species Analysis IndVal to Identify Bird Indicators of HNV in Farmlands from Western Poland
  116. Case Study 1. Bird as Indicators of HNV: Case Study in Farmlands from Central Italy
  117. Cuckoo folklore and human well-being: Cuckoo calls predict how long farmers live
  118. Cuckoo as indicator of high functional diversity of bird communities: A new paradigm for biodiversity surrogacy
  119. Cuckoos as bioindicators
  120. Global loss of avian evolutionary uniqueness in urban areas
  121. Differences between niches of anthropocentric and biocentric conservationists: Wearing old clothes to look modern?
  122. The dark side of the “redundancy hypothesis” and ecosystem assessment
  123. Cities reduce the evolutionary uniqueness of bird communities
  124. The number of syllables in Chernobyl cuckoo calls reliably indicate habitat, soil and radiation levels
  125. Urbanization affects neophilia and risk-taking at bird-feeders
  126. Bats as prey of diurnal birds: a global perspective
  127. Brood sex ratio in expansive and non-expansive tern species in east-central Poland
  128. Testing bird response to roads on a rural environment: A case study from Central Italy
  129. Cuckoo and biodiversity: Testing the correlation between species occurrence and bird species richness in Europe
  130. Saving the best for last: Differential usage of impaled prey by red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) during the breeding season
  131. The symbolic importance of vultures for human beings
  132. Indicator species for avian biodiversity hotspots: Combination of specialists and generalists is necessary in less natural environments
  133. Presence of Cuckoo reliably indicates high bird diversity: A case study in a farmland area
  134. Who started first? Bird species visiting novel birdfeeders
  135. Habitat structure, breeding stage and sex affect hunting success of breeding Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)
  136. Ecology in Europe: is there an ‘empty’ niche for the new journal among competitors, predators and parasites?
  137. Concerns about the use of ecosystem services as a tool for nature conservation: From misleading concepts to providing a “price” for nature, but not a “value”
  138. No species is an island: testing the effects of biotic interactions on models of avian niche occupation
  139. Associations between species can influence the goodness of fit of species distribution models: The case of two passerine birds
  140. Can roads, railways and related structures have positive effects on birds? – A review
  141. Habitat Preferences and Spatial Overlap Between Three Species of Bunting (Emberiza hortulana, emberiza cirlus, miliaria calandra) in Farmlands of Central Italy
  142. Birds as useful indicators of high nature value (HNV) farmland in Central Italy
  143. Are the nesting probabilities of the red-backed shrike related to proximity to roads?
  144. Buntings (Emberizidae) as indicators of HNV of farmlands: a case of study in Central Italy
  145. Landscape heterogeneity metrics as indicators of bird diversity: Determining the optimal spatial scales in different landscapes
  146. Relative importance of marginal vegetation (shrubs, hedgerows, isolated trees) surrogate of HNV farmland for bird species distribution in Central Italy
  147. Quantifying Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity of Farmlands on Bird Species Richness by Means of Similarity Index Pairwise
  148. Modelling the environmental niche of a declining farmland bird species
  149. Breeding habitat of red-backed shrikeLanius collurioon farmland hilly areas of Central Italy: is functional heterogeneity one important key?
  150. Plasticity of Habitat Selection By Red-Backed Shrikes (Lanius collurio) Breeding In Different Landscapes
  151. A Peregrine Falcon in Flight Retrieves Nestling Falling from a Cliff
  152. European Cities