Jelmer M. Samplonius

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of artificial night lighting and daytime traffic noise on the timing of dawn and dusk singing in 6 common songbirds shows that artificialNight lighting leads to an earlier start of dawn singing in 5 out of 6 species, and this effect was strongest at higher light intensities.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the differential effect of climate change on species groups with overlapping breeding ecology affects the phenological interval between them, potentially affecting interspecific interactions.

TL;DR: Both descriptive and experimental data showed preferential feeding of spiders when nestlings were <7 days old and receiving more spiders during this phase was positively correlated with tarsus growth, highlighting the need for a more inclusive framework to study phenological mismatch in nature.

TL;DR: A literature review of 109 papers studying 129 taxa finds that all five criteria that all need to be met to demonstrate that temperature-mediated trophic asynchrony poses a growing risk to consumers are not met.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the breeding population of the resident great tit Parus major and the migratory pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca is buffered against detrimental effects of competition, and it is expected that if buffers are diminished, population consequences of interspecific competition may become apparent, especially after warm winters that are benign to resident species.