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Bird Evolution
Daniel J Field
Feb 22, 2019
New fossils help pinpoint when some birds started relying on a seed-based diet and reveal that disparate bill shapes evolved repeatedly throughout bird evolutionary history.
Three Faculty Members Tapped for Awards for Outstanding Work
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
On May 4, President Dan Mahony will present the Jane LaRoche Graduate Faculty Award to Siobhan Brownson, an associate professor of English. During the May 6 undergraduate Commencement ceremonies, the president will bestow the...
Published by: Winthrop University
The Bird That Flew Backwards
Robin Gow
Jan 01, 0001
The Bird that Flew Backwards examines women poets from literary Modernism in the 1910s and Beat culture in the 1950s. Analyzing these eras in tandem reveals contrasting historical constructions of American womanhood and how...
modernism Beat movement Bohemian Greenwich Village Suffrage women's rights Elise Cowen Mina Loy Diane di Prima American Studies Arts and Humanities Digital Humanities English Language and Literature Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Published by: Ursinus College
IPR Policy Brief - Climate change regulation
Regulators’ efforts to shape business responses to climate change centre on the development of CO2 markets. These are designed to deliver significant CO2 emission reductions at the lowest possible cost to industry. However, the...
Published by: University of Bath
IPR Policy Brief - Climate change regulation
Regulators’ efforts to shape business responses to climate change centre on the development of CO2 markets. These are designed to deliver significant CO2 emission reductions at the lowest possible cost to industry. However, the...
Published by: University of Bath
Thomas and Bird Tapped for University's Teaching Awards
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Marketing Professor Jane Thomas will receive the Kinard Award for teaching. English Professor John Bird will serve as the Thompson Scholar to help teach critical thinking.
Published by: Winthrop University
Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years.
Marius Somveille, Martin Wikelski, Robert M Beyer, Ana S L Rodrigues, Andrea Manica, Walter Jetz
Mar 25, 2020
Migration is a widespread response of birds to seasonally varying climates. As seasonality is particularly pronounced during interglacial periods, this raises the question of the significance of bird migration during past...
Published by: Nature Communications
English Professor John Bird Discovers Never-Before-Published Mark Twain Children's Story
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Called "The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine," it is the story of a young boy who eats a flower sprouted by a magical seed and gains the ability to talk to animals. Bird said he spotted Twain's notes on the story while...
Published by: Winthrop University
Simulation-based reconstruction of global bird migration over the past 50,000 years.
Marius Somveille, Martin Wikelski, Robert M Beyer, Ana SL Rodrigues, Andrea Manica, Walter Jetz
Mar 30, 2020
Migration is a widespread response of birds to seasonally varying climates. As seasonality is particularly pronounced during interglacial periods, this raises the question of the significance of bird migration during past...
Riparian reserves help protect forest bird communities in oil palm dominated landscapes
Conversion of forest to oil palm agriculture is a significant and ongoing threat to tropical biodiversity. Despite this, little is known about the value of riparian reserves in oil palm and how these conservation set‐asides...
Mortality cost of sex-specific parasitism in wild bird populations
Jose O. Valdebenito, András Liker, Naerhulan Halimubieke, Jordi Figuerola, Tamas Szekely
Dec 02, 2020
Sex-specific mortality is frequent in animals although the causes of different male versus female mortalities remain poorly understood. Parasitism is ubiquitous in nature with widespread detrimental effects to hosts, making...
Molecular exploration of fossil eggshell uncovers hidden lineage of giant extinct bird.
Alicia Grealy, Gifford H Miller, Matthew J Phillips, Simon J Clarke, Marilyn Fogel, Diana Patalwala, Paul Rigby, Alysia Hubbard, Beatrice Demarchi, Matthew Collins, Meaghan Mackie, Jorune Sakalauskaite, Josefin Stiller, Julia A Clarke, Lucas J Legendre, Kristina Douglass, James Hansford, James Haile, Michael Bunce
Mar 31, 2023
The systematics of Madagascar's extinct elephant birds remains controversial due to large gaps in the fossil record and poor biomolecular preservation of skeletal specimens. Here, a molecular analysis of 1000-year-old fossil...
Published by: Nature Communications
Evaluating the Evidence for Enclothed Cognition
Enclothed cognition refers to the systematic influence that clothes can have on the wearer’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviors through their symbolic meaning. It has attracted considerable academic and nonacademic interest...
Mortality cost of sex-specific parasitism in wild bird populations
Jose O. Valdebenito, András Liker, Naerhulan Halimubieke, Jordi Figuerola, Tamas Szekely
Dec 02, 2020
Sex-specific mortality is frequent in animals although the causes of different male versus female mortalities remain poorly understood. Parasitism is ubiquitous in nature with widespread detrimental effects to hosts, making...
On the maintenance of bird song dialects
Many bird species, especially song birds but also for instance some
hummingbirds and parrots, have noted dialects. By this we mean that locally a particular song is sung by the majority of the birds, but that neighbouring...
hummingbirds and parrots, have noted dialects. By this we mean that locally a particular song is sung by the majority of the birds, but that neighbouring...
A biomechanical approach to evaluate overload and specificity characteristics within physical preparation exercises
An essential component of any physical preparation programme is the selection of training exercises to facilitate desired performance outcomes, with practitioners balancing the principles of sports training to inform exercise...
A biomechanical approach to evaluate overload and specificity characteristics within physical preparation exercises
An essential component of any physical preparation programme is the selection of training exercises to facilitate desired performance outcomes, with practitioners balancing the principles of sports training to inform exercise...
On the maintenance of bird song dialects
Many bird species, especially song birds but also for instance some
hummingbirds and parrots, have noted dialects. By this we mean that locally a particular song is sung by the majority of the birds, but that neighbouring...
hummingbirds and parrots, have noted dialects. By this we mean that locally a particular song is sung by the majority of the birds, but that neighbouring...
Evaluating the Evidence for Enclothed Cognition
Enclothed cognition refers to the systematic influence that clothes can have on the wearer’s feelings, thoughts, and behaviors through their symbolic meaning. It has attracted considerable academic and nonacademic interest...
Lead ammunition residues in a hunted Australian grassland bird, the stubble quail (Coturnix pectoralis)
Jordan O Hampton, Heath Dunstan, Simon D Toop, Jason S Flesch, Alessandro Andreotti, Deborah J Pain
May 22, 2022
Scavenging and predatory wildlife can ingest lead (Pb) from lead-based ammunition and become poisoned when feeding on shot game animals. Humans can similarly be exposed to ammunition-derived lead when consuming wild-shot game...
Lower limb joint kinetics in the starting blocks and first stance in athletic sprinting
Adam Brazil, Timothy Exell, Cassie Wilson, Steffen Willwacher, Ian Bezodis, Gareth Irwin
Jan 01, 0001
The aim of this study was to examine lower limb joint kinetics during the block and first stance phases in athletic sprinting. Ten male sprinters (100 m PB, 10.50 ± 0.27 s) performed maximal sprint starts from blocks. External...
Joint kinetic determinants of starting block performance in athletic sprinting
The aim of this study was to explore the relationships between lower limb joint kinetics, external force production and starting block performance (normalised average horizontal power, NAHP). Seventeen male sprinters (100 m PB...
Lower limb joint kinetics in the starting blocks and first stance in athletic sprinting
Adam Brazil, Timothy Exell, Cassie Wilson, Steffen Willwacher, Ian Bezodis, Gareth Irwin
Jan 01, 0001
The aim of this study was to examine lower limb joint kinetics during the block and first stance phases in athletic sprinting. Ten male sprinters (100 m PB, 10.50 ± 0.27 s) performed maximal sprint starts from blocks. External...
Roads as a contributor to landscape-scale variation in bird communities
Abstract: Roads and their traffic can affect wildlife over large areas and, in regions with dense road networks, may influence a high proportion of the ecological landscape. We assess the abundance of 75 bird species in relation...
Bird conservation and the land sharing-sparing continuum in farmland-dominated landscapes of lowland England.
Tom Finch, Simon Gillings, Rhys E Green, Dario Massimino, Will J Peach, Andrew Balmford
Jul 05, 2019
Empirical evidence from many regions suggests that most species would be least negatively affected if human food demand were met through high-yield agricultural production and conservation of nonfarm ecosystems (land sparing)...
agricultura agricultura amigable con la fauna agriculture aves de clima templado conservación CONSERVATION dosificación de suelo Land sharing land sparing partición de suelo temperate birds wildlife-friendly farming 农业 保护 土地分离 土地共享 野生动物友好型农业 温带鸟类 agriculture Animals Biodiversity Birds Conservation of Natural Resources Ecosystem England Europe Farms Humans
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