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José Antonio González-Oreja
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Using variation partitioning techniques to quantify the effects of invasive alien species on native urban bird assemblages
Quantifying the impacts that invasive alien species (IAS) cause on affected systems is not an easy task. Here, we explore the application of variation partitioning techniques to measure and control for the eff...
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Foraging movements of Eurasian griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus): implications for supplementary feeding management
The outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy provoked restrictive European sanitary legislation that forced farmers to remove livestock carcasses from the wild. This had serious repercussions for the scave...
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The relationship between brood size and prey selection in a Peregrine Falcon population located in a strategic region on the Western European Flyway
In raptors, brood size seems to be closely related to the size of prey brought to the nest, the delivery rate and the degree of parental effort. In the case of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus), any increase ...
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Assessing the performance of nonparametric estimators of species richness in meadows
To accurately measure the number of species in a biological community, a complete inventory should be performed, which is generally unfeasible; hopefully, estimators of species richness can help. Our main obje...
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Stress in estuarine communities: Lessons from the highly-impacted Bilbao estuary (Spain)
The highly-impacted Bilbao estuary was studied toquantify the response of estuarine communities tostress. Total heterotrophic biomass, a measure ofsediment infauna, declined sharply from the mouth tothe upper ...
