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Glądalski M, Podstawczyńska A, Bańbura M, Kaliński A, Markowski M, Wawrzyniak J, Mańkowska D, Zieliński P, Znajewska A, Skwarska J, Bańbura J. Effect of extreme weather on the breeding parameters of great tits Parus major: comparison of two very different seasons. The European Zoological Journal 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2022.2099990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- M. Glądalski
- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Meteorology and Climatology, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Museum of Natural History, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Łódź Botanical Garden, Urban Greenery Management, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland
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Lambrechts MM, Caro SP. Egg cooling associated with nest size in a passerine bird. J Therm Biol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2022.103383] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 10/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Ortega S, Rodríguez C, Drummond H. Seasonal weather effects on offspring survival differ between reproductive stages in a long-lived neotropical seabird. Oecologia 2022; 199:611-623. [PMID: 35829792 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05219-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
Weather conditions can profoundly affect avian reproduction. It is known that weather conditions prior to and after the onset of reproduction can affect the breeding success of birds. However, little is known about how seasonal weather variability can affect birds' breeding performance, particularly for species with a slow pace of life. Long-term studies are key to understanding how weather variability can affect a population's dynamics, especially when extreme weather events are expected to increase with climate change. Using a 32-year population study of the Blue-footed booby (Sula nebouxii) in Mexico, we show that seasonal variation in weather conditions, predominantly during the incubation stage, affects offspring survival and body condition at independence. During most of the incubation period, warm sea surface temperatures were correlated with low hatching success, while rainfall in the middle of the incubation stage was correlated with high fledging success. In addition, chicks from nests that experienced warm sea surface temperatures from the pre-laying stage to near-fledging had lower body condition at 70 days of age. Finally, we show that variable annual SST conditions before and during the incubation stage can impair breeding performance. Our results provide insight into how seasonal and interannual weather variation during key reproductive stages can affect hatching success, fledging success, and fledgling body condition in a long-lived neotropical seabird.
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- Santiago Ortega
- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04500, Mexico City, México. .,Posgrado en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, Mexico City, México.
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04500, Mexico City, México
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- Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04500, Mexico City, México
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Surmacki A, Podkowa P. The use of trail cameras to monitor species inhabiting artificial nest boxes. Ecol Evol 2022; 12:e8550. [PMID: 35154649 PMCID: PMC8820111 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Artificial boxes are commonly used in studies of cavity-dwelling animals of various taxa. One advantage of nest boxes is that cameras can be used to monitor animals inside the cavity, however, most cameras used today have to be built de novo or modified or are expensive.Here, we describe a method for monitoring nest boxes using off-the-shelf models of trail cameras that can record photographs and videos in daylight and darkness (TCM; Trail Camera Method). The cameras can record sequentially within a given time lapse or an infra-red motion sensor can be triggered by activity in the nest box.Using TCM in a Great Tit (Parus major) nest box population, we studied the hourly pattern of the first egg laying and the first egg hatching. We found that Great Tits laid eggs within 2 h of the sunrise while the timing of hatching spanned the 24-h day. Moreover, we found that the hour of hatching affects the nestlings' mass on the 2nd day of life, but not on the 12th day of life.Comparing to traditional nest box checks, TMC requires about 75% less time to obtain data on the timing of egg laying and hatching. Moreover, the hour estimation error was several orders of magnitude greater with the traditional method.Our data demonstrate that commercially available trail cameras are an affordable and convenient method of monitoring artificial cavities. Trail cameras are small, standalone, weather-proof devices with integrated powering, memory storage, lighting, and recording systems. They could be easily swapped between boxes or removed. After small modifications of the box, they could be used to monitor a wide variety of behaviors of many animal taxa.
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- Adrian Surmacki
- Department of Avian Biology and EcologyFaculty of BiologyAdam Mickiewicz UniversityPoznańPoland
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- Department of Avian Biology and EcologyFaculty of BiologyAdam Mickiewicz UniversityPoznańPoland
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Bründl AC, Sallé L, Lejeune LA, Sorato E, Thiney AC, Chaine AS, Russell AF. Elevational Gradients as a Model for Understanding Associations Among Temperature, Breeding Phenology and Success. Front Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.563377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Lambrechts MM, Caizergues AE, Perrier C, Charmantier A, Caro SP. Surface temperatures of non-incubated eggs in great tits (Parus major) are strongly associated with ambient temperature. Int J Biometeorol 2020; 64:1767-1775. [PMID: 32594247 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-020-01958-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2018] [Revised: 06/17/2020] [Accepted: 06/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Temperature is one of the best investigated environmental factors in ecological life-history studies and is increasingly considered in the contexts of climate change and urbanization. In avian ecology, few studies have examined the associations between thermal dynamics in the nest environment and its neighbouring air. Here, we placed avian nests and non-incubated eggs inside nest boxes at various air temperatures that ranged from 0.3 to 33.1 °C, both in the field and in laboratory conditions. We measured how the design of the boxes, their compass orientation and their location in more or less urbanized environments affected the surface temperature of nests and eggs. We also assessed whether covering the eggs with lining material influenced their surface temperature. Overall, across all performed tests, we found that the surface temperature of nests and eggs strongly reflected the air temperature measured outside of the nest boxes. While the design of the nest boxes had little influence on the temperature of nests and eggs, orienting the nest boxes to the north or to the west significantly decreased their surface temperature. The presence of lining material also kept eggs slightly warmer when air temperatures were low. Altogether these results suggest that non-incubated eggs are not well protected against extreme air temperatures prior to the onset of incubation. From an evolutionary point of view, producers of ectotherm eggs need therefore to time egg-laying appropriately in order to avoid unfavourable thermal nest environments.
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- Marcel M Lambrechts
- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive CEFE, UMR 5175, Campus CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, EPHE, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive CEFE, UMR 5175, Campus CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, EPHE, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations UMR CBGP, INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive CEFE, UMR 5175, Campus CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, EPHE, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive CEFE, UMR 5175, Campus CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, EPHE, 1919 route de Mende, 34293, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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Glądalski M, Mainwaring MC, Bańbura M, Kaliński A, Markowski M, Skwarska J, Wawrzyniak J, Bańbura J, Hartley IR. Consequences of hatching deviations for breeding success: a long-term study on blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus. The European Zoological Journal 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2020.1787532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- M. Glądalski
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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- Museum of Natural History, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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Seress G, Sándor K, Evans KL, Liker A. Food availability limits avian reproduction in the city: An experimental study on great tits Parus major. J Anim Ecol 2020; 89:1570-1580. [PMID: 32419138 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2019] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The altered ecological and environmental conditions in towns and cities strongly affect demographic traits of urban animal populations, for example avian reproductive success is often reduced. Previous work suggests that this is partly driven by low insect availability during the breeding season, but robust experimental evidence that supports this food limitation hypothesis is not yet available. We tested core predictions of the food limitation hypothesis using a controlled experiment that provided supplementary insect food (nutritionally enhanced mealworms supplied daily to meet 40%-50% of each supplemented brood's food requirements) to great tit nestlings in urban and forest habitats. We measured parental provisioning rates and estimated the amount of supplementary food consumed by control and experimental nestlings, and assessed their body size and survival rates. Provisioning rates were similar across habitats and control and supplemented broods, but supplemented (and not control) broods consumed large quantities of supplementary food. As predicted by the food limitation hypothesis we found that nestlings in (a) urban control broods had smaller body size and nestling survival rates than those in forest control broods; (b) forest supplemented and control broods had similar body size and survival rates; (c) urban supplemented nestlings had larger body size and survival rates than those in urban control broods; and crucially (d) urban supplemented broods had similar body size and survival rates to nestlings in forest control broods. Our results provide rare experimental support for the strong negative effects of food limitation during the nestling rearing period on urban birds' breeding success. Furthermore, the fact that supplementary food almost completely eliminated habitat differences in survival rate and nestling body size suggest that urban stressors other than food shortage contributed relatively little to the reduced avian breeding success. Finally, given the impacts of the amount of supplementary food that we provided and taking clutch size differences into account, our results suggest that urban insect populations in our study system would need to be increased by a factor of at least 2.5 for urban and forest great tits to have similar reproductive success.
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- Gábor Seress
- MTA-PE Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
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- Department of Limnology, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
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- Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
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- MTA-PE Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
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Glądalski M, Bańbura M, Kaliński A, Markowski M, Skwarska J, Wawrzyniak J, Zieliński P, Bańbura J. Extreme temperature drop alters hatching delay, reproductive success, and physiological condition in great tits. Int J Biometeorol 2020; 64:623-629. [PMID: 31915916 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-019-01851-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/21/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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It has been suggested that extreme weather events may be treated as natural experiments that may unravel the mechanisms by which birds adjust their phenology and breeding parameters to environmental variability. In 2017, a sudden and heavy drop of temperatures for several days affected many European bird populations. This event occurred during the laying-early incubation period in the great tit (Parus major) population in central Poland, causing a large delay in hatching and had sustained reproductive consequences. This cold snap occurring once breeding activity had already started in 2017 was followed by the warm and invariable breeding season of 2018. This natural experiment had an essential influence on great tit reproductive parameters. We found a significant difference in hatching date, number of fledglings, hatching success, and fledging success between 2017 and 2018. In 2017, there were about two fledglings per nest fewer than in 2018. Fledging success was positively associated with hatching delay in 2017, while the relation was negative in 2018. Hatching success differed significantly between both years, being higher in 2018. Mean level of hemoglobin (used as index of body, physiological condition) in the blood of nestling great tits was higher in 2017 than in 2018. We argue that the moment of hatching may be (at least in some years) more tightly related to the moment of maximum food demand of tit nestlings than the traditionally used laying date. Also in extreme years, phenotypic plasticity of hatching delays may be insufficient to adjust the timing of breeding to the upcoming extreme weather events. Further examining its limits may be an important goal for future research.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michał Glądalski
- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland.
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- Museum of Natural History, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Kilińskiego 101, 90-011, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Vertebrate Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237, Łódź, Poland
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Glądalski M, Kaliński A, Wawrzyniak J, Bańbura M, Markowski M, Skwarska J, Bańbura J. Physiological condition of nestling great tits Parus major in response to experimental reduction in nest micro- and macro-parasites. Conserv Physiol 2018; 6:coy062. [PMID: 30483402 PMCID: PMC6249426 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coy062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2018] [Revised: 10/04/2018] [Accepted: 10/31/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
Abstract
Most passerines use nests as the exclusive place to lay and incubate eggs and bring nestlings up to fledging. Nests of secondary cavity nesters, like tits, provide a moist, warm and protected habitat for reproduction of blood parasites. Offspring fitness depends on interactions between parental care and environmental constraints. Life-history theory suggests that macro- and micro-parasites may generate selection pressures by affecting host health. In the present study, we replaced natural great tit Parus major nests in two, structurally and floristically contrasting sites (an urban parkland and a rich deciduous forest, located 10 km apart in Łódź, central Poland), with fresh, sterilized, artificial moss-cotton wool nests, twice, on the fifth and tenth day of nestlings life. We then examined haematological condition indicators (haemoglobin and glucose concentrations) of about 14-day-old nestlings. Nestlings that were developing in treated nests improved their health status in comparison with control nestlings. The mean haemoglobin and glucose concentrations (treated and control) also varied between both study areas. Our study confirms that the level of haemoglobin and especially the level of glucose may be treated as reliable indicator of environmental characteristics in great tits.
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Affiliation(s)
- Michał Glądalski
- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Łódź, Poland
- Corresponding author: Michał Glądalski. Tel: +48 42 635 44 90.
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Łódź, Poland
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- Museum of Natural History, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Kilińskiego 101, 90-011 Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Łódź, Poland
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- Department of Experimental Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Banacha 12/16, 90-237 Łódź, Poland
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