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A Remote Sensing-Based Inventory of West Africa Tropical Forest Patches: A Basis for Enhancing Their Conservation and Sustainable Use by Wingate, Vladimir R., Akinyemi, Felicia O., Iheaturu, Chima J., Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe

“…The rate of tropical deforestation is increasing globally, and the fragmentation of remaining forests is particularly high in arable landscapes of West Africa…”
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Aggressive hosts are undeterred by a cuckoo's hawk mimicry, but probably make good foster parents by Attwood, Mairenn C, Lund, Jess, Nwaogu, Chima J, Moya, Collins, Spottiswoode, Claire N

“…Parasites face a trade-off if the highest quality hosts are also most resistant to exploitation. For brood parasites, well-defended host nests may be both…”
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Quantification of Above-Ground Biomass over the Cross-River State, Nigeria, Using Sentinel-2 Data by Amuyou, Ushuki A., Wang, Yi, Ebuta, Bisong Francis, Iheaturu, Chima J., Antonarakis, Alexander S.

“…Higher-resolution wall-to-wall carbon monitoring in tropical Africa across a range of woodland types is necessary in reducing uncertainty in the global carbon…”
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Weak breeding seasonality of a songbird in a seasonally arid tropical environment arises from individual flexibility and strongly seasonal moult by Nwaogu, Chima J., Tieleman, B. Irene, Cresswell, Will

“…In some tropical birds, breeding seasonality is weak at the population level, even where there are predictable seasonal peaks in environmental conditions. It…”
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A fruit diet rather than invertebrate diet maintains a robust innate immunity in an omnivorous tropical songbird by Nwaogu, Chima J., Galema, Annabet, Cresswell, Will, Dietz, Maurine W., Tieleman, B. Irene, Ardia, Daniel

“…Diet alteration may lead to nutrient limitations even in the absence of food limitation, and this may affect physiological functions, including immunity…”
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Routine Vaccination Coverage in Northern Nigeria: Results from 40 District-Level Cluster Surveys, 2014-2015 by Gunnala, Rajni, Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U, Adegoke, Oluwasegun J, Scobie, Heather M, Uba, Belinda V, Wannemuehler, Kathleen A, Ruiz, Alicia, Elmousaad, Hashim, Ohuabunwo, Chima J, Mustafa, Mahmud, Nguku, Patrick, Waziri, Ndadilnasiya Endie, Vertefeuille, John F

“…Despite recent success towards controlling poliovirus transmission, Nigeria has struggled to achieve uniformly high routine vaccination coverage. A lack of…”
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Seasonal differences in baseline innate immune function are better explained by environment than annual cycle stage in a year‐round breeding tropical songbird by Nwaogu, Chima J., Cresswell, Will, Versteegh, Maaike A., Tieleman, B. Irene, Ardia, Daniel

“…Seasonal variation in innate immunity is often attributed to either temporal environmental variation or to life‐history trade‐offs that arise from specific…”
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Supplementing a grain diet with insects instead of fruits sustains the body condition of an omnivorous bird by Simon, Ojodomo G., Manu, Shiiwua A., Nwaogu, Chima J., Omotoriogun, Taiwo C.

“…Omnivores utilize dietary sources which differ in nutrients, hence dietary limitations due to environmental change or habitat alteration could cause nutrient…”
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Geographic variation in baseline innate immune function does not follow variation in aridity along a tropical environmental gradient by Nwaogu, Chima J., Cresswell, Will, Tieleman, B. Irene

“…Geographic variation in aridity determines environmental productivity patterns, including large-scale variability in pathogens, vectors and associated…”
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Local timing of rainfall predicts the timing of moult within a single locality and the progress of moult among localities that vary in the onset of the wet season in a year-round breeding tropical songbird by Nwaogu, Chima J., Cresswell, Will

“…Rainfall seasonality is likely an important cue for timing key annual cycle events like moult in birds living in seasonally arid environments, but its precise…”
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Differences in phenology across three trophic levels between two Afrotropical sites separated by four degrees latitude by Jarrett, Crinan, Simon, Ojodomo Godday, Tchana, Christian N., Pev, Thaddeus Apezan, Meigang Kamkeng, Michelle Fany, Wandji, Alain Christel, Manu, Shiiwua A., Tchoumbou, Mélanie Adèle, Helm, Barbara, Powell, Luke L., Nwaogu, Chima J.

“…Birds time their life cycle events to favourable windows in environmental conditions. In tropical environments, where photoperiod variation is small, birds…”
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A retrospective cross-national examination of COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries: a multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis (January 11-June 28, 2020) by Iyanda, Ayodeji Emmanuel, Adeleke, Richard, Lu, Yongmei, Osayomi, Tolulope, Adaralegbe, Adeleye, Lasode, Mayowa, Chima-Adaralegbe, Ngozi J., Osundina, Adedoyin M.

“…This study retrospectively examined the health and social determinants of the COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries from a spatial epidemiological approach. We…”
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Dynamics of Land Cover Change in the Anambra River Basin of Nigeria and Implications for Sustainable Land Management by Njar, Nnanjar G., Iheaturu, Chima J., Inyang, Utibe B., Okolie, Chukwuma J., Daramola, Olagoke E., Orji, Michael J.

“…Land cover change and its consequences such as environmental degradation and biodiversity loss pose significant global challenges, including in Nigeria’s…”
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The reuse of avian samples: opportunities, pitfalls, and a solution by Brlík, Vojtěch, Pipek, Pavel, Brandis, Kate, Chernetsov, Nikita, Costa, Fábio J. V., Herrera M., L. Gerardo, Kiat, Yosef, Lanctot, Richard B., Marra, Peter P., Norris, D. Ryan, Nwaogu, Chima J., Quillfeldt, Petra, Saalfeld, Sarah T., Stricker, Craig A., Thomson, Robert L., Zhao, Tianhao, Procházka, Petr

“…Tissue samples are frequently collected to study various aspects of avian biology, but in many cases these samples are not used in their entirety and are…”
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Biafra and the discourse on the Igbo Genocide by Korieh, Chima J

“…There has been a reluctance or indifference to a systematic study and documentation of the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria. In the main, the reason has been due to…”
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Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation by van der Wal, Jessica E. M., Spottiswoode, Claire N., Uomini, Natalie T., Cantor, Mauricio, Daura‐Jorge, Fábio G., Afan, Anap I., Attwood, Mairenn C., Amphaeris, Jenny, Balasani, Fatima, Begg, Colleen M., Blair, Cameron J., Bronstein, Judith L., Buanachique, Iahaia O., Cuthill, Rion R. T., Das, Jewel, Deb, Apurba, Dixit, Tanmay, Dlamini, Gcina S., Dounias, Edmond, Gedi, Isa I., Gruber, Martin, Hoffmann, Lilian S., Holzlehner, Tobias, Isack, Hussein A., Laltaika, Eliupendo A., Lloyd‐Jones, David J., Lund, Jess, Machado, Alexandre M. S., Mahadevan, L., Moreno, Ignacio B., Nwaogu, Chima J., Pereira, Valdomiro L., Pierotti, Raymond, Rucunua, Seliano A., dos Santos, Wilson F., Serpa, Nathalia, Smith, Brian D., Tolkova, Irina, Tun, Tint, Valle‐Pereira, João V. S., Wood, Brian M., Wrangham, Richard W., Cram, Dominic L.

“…Human–wildlife cooperation occurs when humans and free‐living wild animals actively coordinate their behavior to achieve a mutually beneficial outcome. These…”
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An Assessment of the Reasons for Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Refusals in Northern Nigeria by Michael, Charles A., Ogbuanu, Ikechukwu U., Storms, Aaron D., Ohuabunwo, Chima J., Corkum, Melissa, Ashenafi, Samra, Achari, Panchanan, Biya, Oladayo, Nguku, Patrick, Mahoney, Frank

“…Background. Accumulation of susceptible children whose caregivers refuse to accept oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) contributes to the spread of poliovirus in…”
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Temperature and aridity determine body size conformity to Bergmann’s rule independent of latitudinal differences in a tropical environment by Nwaogu, Chima J., Tieleman, B. Irene, Bitrus, Kwanye, Cresswell, Will

“…Bergmann’s rule, defined as the tendency for endotherms to be larger in colder environments, is a biophysical generalization of body size variation that is…”
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The ecology and evolution of human‐wildlife cooperation by Cram, Dominic L., Wal, Jessica E. M., Uomini, Natalie, Cantor, Mauricio, Afan, Anap I., Attwood, Mairenn C., Amphaeris, Jenny, Balasani, Fatima, Blair, Cameron J., Bronstein, Judith L., Buanachique, Iahaia O., Cuthill, Rion R. T., Das, Jewel, Daura‐Jorge, Fábio G., Deb, Apurba, Dixit, Tanmay, Dlamini, Gcina S., Dounias, Edmond, Gedi, Isa I., Gruber, Martin, Hoffmann, Lilian S., Holzlehner, Tobias, Isack, Hussein A., Laltaika, Eliupendo A., Lloyd‐Jones, David J., Lund, Jess, Machado, Alexandre M. S., Mahadevan, L., Moreno, Ignacio B., Nwaogu, Chima J., Pierotti, Raymond, Rucunua, Seliano A., Santos, Wilson F., Serpa, Nathalia, Smith, Brian D., Sridhar, Hari, Tolkova, Irina, Tun, Tint, Valle‐Pereira, João V. S., Wood, Brian M., Wrangham, Richard W., Spottiswoode, Claire N.

“…Human‐wildlife cooperation is a type of mutualism in which a human and a wild, free‐living animal actively coordinate their behaviour to achieve a…”
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The Women's War of 1929: a history of anti-colonial resistance in eastern Nigeria by Toyin Falola and Adam Paddock (review) by Korieh, Chima J

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