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Behavioural plasticity is associated with reduced extinction risk in birds by Ducatez, Simon, Sol, Daniel, Sayol, Ferran, Lefebvre, Louis

“…Behavioural plasticity is believed to reduce species vulnerability to extinction, yet global evidence supporting this hypothesis is lacking. We address this…”
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Niche expansion and adaptive divergence in the global radiation of crows and ravens by Garcia-Porta, Joan, Sol, Daniel, Pennell, Matt, Sayol, Ferran, Kaliontzopoulou, Antigoni, Botero, Carlos A.

“…The processes that allow some lineages to diversify rapidly at a global scale remain poorly understood. Although earlier studies emphasized the importance of…”
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Environmental variation and the evolution of large brains in birds by Sayol, Ferran, Maspons, Joan, Lapiedra, Oriol, Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Székely, Tamás, Sol, Daniel

“…Environmental variability has long been postulated as a major selective force in the evolution of large brains. However, assembling evidence for this…”
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Relative brain size is associated with natal dispersal rate and species' vulnerability to climate change in seabirds by Constanti Crosby, Laurel, Sayol, Ferran, Horswill, Catharine

“…The cognitive buffer hypothesis proposes that species with larger brains (relative to their body size) exhibit greater behavioural flexibility, conferring an…”
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Predictable evolution towards larger brains in birds colonizing oceanic islands by Sayol, Ferran, Downing, Philip A., Iwaniuk, Andrew N., Maspons, Joan, Sol, Daniel

“…Theory and evidence suggest that some selective pressures are more common on islands than in adjacent mainland habitats, leading evolution to follow…”
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Brain Size and Life History Interact to Predict Urban Tolerance in Birds by Sayol, Ferran, Sol, Daniel, Pigot, Alex L.

“…Urbanization is a major driver of local biodiversity losses, but the traits that determine whether species are able to tolerate urban environments remain…”
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Coexistence of predators in time: Effects of season and prey availability on species activity within a Mediterranean carnivore guild by Vilella, Marc, Ferrandiz‐Rovira, Mariona, Sayol, Ferran

“…The degree of coexistence among predators can determine the structure of ecological communities. Niche partitioning is a common strategy applied by species to…”
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The origin of excavator nesting behavior and its impact on the evolution of Neotropical parrots by Ramírez‐Herranz, Myriam, Sayol, Ferran, Rios, Rodrigo S., Antonelli, Alexandre, Squeo, Francisco A.

“…How the origin of novel behaviors can shape the evolutionary trajectory of organisms in response to environmental change remains poorly understood. Birds,…”
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Undiscovered bird extinctions obscure the true magnitude of human-driven extinction waves by Cooke, Rob, Sayol, Ferran, Andermann, Tobias, Blackburn, Tim M., Steinbauer, Manuel J., Antonelli, Alexandre, Faurby, Søren

“…Birds are among the best-studied animal groups, but their prehistoric diversity is poorly known due to low fossilization potential. Hence, while many…”
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Validation of a globally-applicable method to measure urban tolerance of birds using citizen science data by Callaghan, Corey T., Sayol, Ferran, Benedetti, Yanina, Morelli, Federico, Sol, Daniel

“…•Monitoring organism responses to urbanization is critical in the face of increasing urbanization around the world.•Broad-scale, repeatable methods, are…”
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Evolutionary transitions in diet influence the exceptional diversification of a lizard adaptive radiation by Ocampo, Mauricio, Pincheira-Donoso, Daniel, Sayol, Ferran, Rios, Rodrigo S

“…Diet is a key component of a species ecological niche and plays critical roles in guiding the trajectories of evolutionary change. Previous studies suggest…”
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Host Cognition and Parasitism in Birds: A Review of the Main Mechanisms by Ducatez, Simon, Lefebvre, Louis, Sayol, Ferran, Audet, Jean-Nicolas, Sol, Daniel

“…Parasites can have important detrimental effects on host fitness, thereby influencing their ecology and evolution. Hosts can, in turn, exert strong selective…”
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The life-history basis of behavioural innovations by Sol, Daniel, Sayol, Ferran, Ducatez, Simon, Lefebvre, Louis

“…The evolutionary origin of innovativeness remains puzzling because innovating means responding to novel or unusual problems and hence is unlikely to be…”
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Are Urban Vertebrates City Specialists, Artificial Habitat Exploiters, or Environmental Generalists? by Ducatez, Simon, Sayol, Ferran, Sol, Daniel, Lefebvre, Louis

“…Although urbanization is a major threat to biodiversity, some species are able to thrive in cities. This might be because they have specific adaptations to…”
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Niche shifts after island colonization spurred adaptive diversification and speciation in a cosmopolitan bird clade by Lapiedra, Oriol, Sayol, Ferran, Garcia-Porta, Joan, Sol, Daniel

“…Islands have long been recognized as key contributors to biodiversity because they facilitate geographic isolation and ecological divergence from mainland…”
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Relative Brain Size and Its Relation with the Associative Pallium in Birds by Sayol, Ferran, Lefebvre, Louis, Sol, Daniel

“…Despite growing interest in the evolution of enlarged brains, the biological significance of brain size variation remains controversial. Much of the…”
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Niche filling predicts evolutionary trajectories in insular bird communities by Dufour, Paul, Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Cooke, Rob, Faurby, Søren

“…Abstract Different theories have been proposed to explain the phenotypic changes observed in island lineages, but it remains unclear if predictable…”
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Extinction selectivity obscures patterns of trait‐dependent endangerment in Columbiformes by Martínez‐Rubio, Natàlia, Sayol, Ferran, Lapiedra, Oriol

“…Aim Understanding how extinction has occurred in the recent past is crucial to unravel its main drivers as well as to implement effective conservation…”
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Larger brains spur species diversification in birds by Sayol, Ferran, Lapiedra, Oriol, Ducatez, Simon, Sol, Daniel

“…Evidence is accumulating that species traits can spur their evolutionary diversification by influencing niche shifts, range expansions, and extinction risk…”
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The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds by Dufour, Paul, Sayol, Ferran, Cooke, Rob, Blackburn, Tim M, Gallien, Laure, Griesser, Michael, Steinbauer, Manuel J, Faurby, Søren

“…Seasonal migration is an underappreciated driver of animal diversification. Changes in migratory behaviour may favour the establishment of sedentary founder…”
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