Concepción Salaberria

TL;DR: The results suggest that optimal nest choice is constrained by varying environmental conditions in birds breeding over prolonged periods, and that there should be selection for parents to switch from sun-exposed to sun-protected nest-sites as the season progresses, but nest-site availability and competition for sites are likely to impose constraints on this choice.

TL;DR: Comparison of patterns of song adjustment to noise in oscines and suboscines in Brazil and Mexico City suggests that song learning and/or song plasticity allows adaptation to new habitats and that this selective advantage may be linked to the evolution ofsong learning and plasticity.

TL;DR: The study reveals that CMI response can be considered as a good predictor of post-fledging recruitment and adds to the evidence of the role played by immune defences in determining survival prospects in natural populations.

TL;DR: The data suggest that the PHA swelling response may not be considered as the only consequence of processes of specific and induced immunity –T lymphocytes proliferation- but also of constitutive and nonspecific immunity –heterophiles and monocytes phagocytosis.

TL;DR: This work recorded the songs of great tits in 22 different locations throughout parks and green areas of the city of Madrid, and analysed the relationship between song characteristics and the amplitude of urban noise.