Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments
- H. Lowry, A. Lill, B. Wong
- Environmental ScienceBiological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical…
- 1 August 2013
It is argued that individuals that can adjust their behaviours to the new selection pressures presented by cities should have greater success in urban habitats, and members of species that are less ‘plastic’ or naturally timid in temperament are likely to be disadvantaged in high‐disturbance environments and consequently may be precluded from colonizing cities and towns.
Interpreting indices of physiological stress in free-living vertebrates
- Christopher P. Johnstone, R. Reina, A. Lill
- BiologyJournal of Comparative Physiology □ B
- 14 March 2012
How stress metrics can be confounded when estimates of HPA-axis activation are collected for free-living vertebrates is examined and some approaches that can be used to help circumvent the influence of potentially confounding factors are outlined.
Longevity Records for Some Neotropical Land Birds
These percentages are far higher than those recorded for European and North American passerines, for which annual survival rates of adults are predominantly in the 30-50% range (Lack 1954, Table 21).
Development of parameters influencing blood oxygen carrying capacity in the welcome swallow and fairy martin.
- Prue Simmons, A. Lill
- BiologyComparative biochemistry and physiology. Part A…
- 1 April 2006
Use of erythrocyte indicators of health and condition in vertebrate ecophysiology: a review and appraisal
- Christopher P. Johnstone, A. Lill, R. Reina
- Biology, MedicineBiological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical…
- 1 February 2017
Evidence for and against the use of erythrocyte indicators of health status and condition, parasite infection level and physiological stress in free‐living vertebrates is reviewed and researchers should validate a metricfres utility before use.
Avian fruit consumption and seed dispersal in a temperate Australian woodland
- M. Stanley, A. Lill
- Biology
- 1 April 2002
Fruits consumed by silvereyes and Rhagodia parabolica fruit was consumed by a large number of bird species in the community, including species often thought of as exclusively insectivorous or nectarivorous.
Oxytocin enhances the appropriate use of human social cues by the domestic dog (Canis familiaris) in an object choice task
- J. Oliva, J. Rault, B. Appleton, A. Lill
- Psychology, BiologyAnimal Cognition
- 3 February 2015
Oxytocin enhanced performance using momentary distal pointing cues, and this enhanced level of performance was maintained over 5–15 days time in the absence of oxytocin.
Does habitat fragmentation cause stress in the agile antechinus? A haematological approach
- Christopher P. Johnstone, A. Lill, R. Reina
- MedicineJournal of Comparative Physiology □ B
- 2011
Where anthropogenic activity results in habitat fragmentation and degradation, chronic stress could contribute to a decline in agile antechinus populations, and the broader implication is that chronic Stress could be both symptomatic of, and contributing to, decline of some vertebrate populations in anthropogenically fragmented and degraded habitats.
Sources of Variation in Blood Glucose Concentrations of Free-Living Birds
- A. Lill
- Environmental Science
- 1 July 2011
Three issues concerning avian peripheral blood glucose concentrations that require more investigation are: (a) whether they are as variable and high in free-living as in captive and domesticated…
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