The impacts of host traits on parasite infection of montane birds in southwestern China
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Zhan, X., Huang, X., Pagani-Núñez, E., Tang, Q., Ho, H., Zhou, W., …Liang, D. (2024)
The impacts of host traits on parasite infection of montane birds in southwestern China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12, Article 1305305. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1305305
Parasitic infections have the potential to impact the hosts’ body condition, elevate physiological responses, and ultimately lead to increased mortality. Host-parasite interac...
A mixed black and whitelist approach for wildlife trade regulation in China: Biodiversity conservation is made of shades of gray
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Xiao, L., Pagani‐Núñez, E., Han, X., Zhao, P., Li, X., Hong, Y., …Lu, Z. (2024)
A mixed black and whitelist approach for wildlife trade regulation in China: Biodiversity conservation is made of shades of gray. Conservation Science and Practice, 6(2), Article e13062. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13062
The Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework requires effective actions to bend the curve of biodiversity loss by 2030. Wildlife trade, a direct drive of biodiversity de...
Protecting China’s major urban bird diversity hotspots
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Li, L., Yan, M., Hong, Y., Feng, W., Xie, D., & Pagani-Núñez, E. (2024)
Protecting China’s major urban bird diversity hotspots. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, 53, 339-350. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01943-z
The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework puts forward a new conservation target to enhance urban biodiversity. Cities have a great potential for sustaining biodivers...
The effect of urbanization and exposure to multiple environmental factors on life-history traits and breeding success of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) across China
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Zhao, Y., Pagani-Núñez, E., Liu, Y., Xing, X., Zhang, Z., Pan, G., …Safran, R. J. (2022)
The effect of urbanization and exposure to multiple environmental factors on life-history traits and breeding success of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica) across China. Avian Research, 13, Article 100048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avrs.2022.100048
In addition to landscape changes, urbanization also brings about changes in environmental factors that can affect wildlife. Despite the common referral in the published litera...
Trade‐offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation on a tropical island
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Pagani‐Núñez, E., Xu, Y., Yan, M., He, J., Jiang, Z., & Jiang, H. (2022)
Trade‐offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation on a tropical island. Conservation Biology, 36(5), Article e139121. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13912
Resolving trade-offs between economic development and biodiversity conservation needs is crucial in currently developing countries and in particularly sensitive systems harbor...
Undergraduates' perceptions on emergency remote learning in ecology in the post‐pandemic era
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Pagani‐Núñez, E., Yan, M., Hong, Y., Zeng, Y., Chen, S., Zhao, P., & Zou, Y. (2022)
Undergraduates' perceptions on emergency remote learning in ecology in the post‐pandemic era. Ecology and Evolution, 12(3), Article e8659. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8659
The COVID-19 pandemic has strongly disrupted academic activities, particularly in disciplines with a strong empirical component among other reasons by limiting our mobility. I...
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence
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Turbek, S. P., Schield, D. R., Scordato, E. S., Contina, A., Da, X., Liu, Y., …Smith, C. C. (2022)
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence. Evolution, 76(4), 722-736. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14448
Migratory divides are contact zones between breeding populations with divergent migratory strategies during the nonbreeding season. These locations provide an opportunity to e...
Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability
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He, R., Pagani-Núñez, E., Goodale, E., & Barnett, C. (2022)
Avian predators taste reject mimetic prey in relation to their signal reliability. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 2334. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05600-5
Aposematic organisms defend themselves through various means to increase their unprofitability to predators which they advertise with conspicuous warning signals. Predators le...
Dynamic trait-niche relationships shape niche partitioning across habitat transformation gradients
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Liang, D., He, C., Liu, Y., Luo, X., & Goodale, E. (2022)
Dynamic trait-niche relationships shape niche partitioning across habitat transformation gradients. Basic and Applied Ecology, 59, 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.01.002
Multidimensional approaches examining complex trait-niche relationships are crucial to understand community assembly. This is particularly important across habitat transformat...
Editorial: Impacts of Habitat Transformation on Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Asia
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Pagani-Núñez, E., Barnett, C. R., Dingle, C., Goodale, E., Hu, J., Li, Y., …Zou, Y. (2021)
Editorial: Impacts of Habitat Transformation on Species, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in Asia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, Article 777175. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.777175