Published in Physiol Biochem Zool on September 10, 2008
Immune function in a free-living bird varies over the annual cycle, but seasonal patterns differ between years. Oecologia (2012) 1.02
Why fly the extra mile? Using stress biomarkers to assess wintering habitat quality in migratory shorebirds. Oecologia (2016) 0.89
No evidence for melatonin-linked immunoenhancement over the annual cycle of an avian species. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol (2009) 0.80
Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 infection in a long-distance migrant shorebird under migratory and non-migratory states. PLoS One (2011) 0.79
Offspring pay sooner, parents pay later: experimental manipulation of body mass reveals trade-offs between immune function, reproduction and survival. Front Zool (2013) 0.78
Sex-specific variation in brown-headed cowbird immunity following acute stress: a mechanistic approach. Oecologia (2012) 0.76
Cheetahs have a stronger constitutive innate immunity than leopards. Sci Rep (2017) 0.76
Vitally important - does early innate immunity predict recruitment and adult innate immunity? Ecol Evol (2016) 0.75
Baseline immune activity is associated with date rather than with moult stage in the Arctic-breeding barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis). PLoS One (2014) 0.75
Innate immunity and testosterone rapidly respond to acute stress, but is corticosterone at the helm? J Comp Physiol B (2016) 0.75
Extreme endurance flights by landbirds crossing the Pacific Ocean: ecological corridor rather than barrier? Proc Biol Sci (2009) 3.02
Shellfish dredging pushes a flexible avian top predator out of a marine protected area. PLoS Biol (2006) 2.02
Rapid population decline in red knots: fitness consequences of decreased refuelling rates and late arrival in Delaware Bay. Proc Biol Sci (2004) 1.87
Reversed optimality and predictive ecology: burrowing depth forecasts population change in a bivalve. Biol Lett (2009) 1.86
Stress and the city: urbanization and its effects on the stress physiology in European blackbirds. Ecology (2006) 1.84
A three-stage symbiosis forms the foundation of seagrass ecosystems. Science (2012) 1.71
Travelling on a budget: predictions and ecological evidence for bottlenecks in the annual cycle of long-distance migrants. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2008) 1.66
Landscape-scale experiment demonstrates that Wadden Sea intertidal flats are used to capacity by molluscivore migrant shorebirds. J Anim Ecol (2009) 1.55
Reinterpretation of gizzard sizes of red knots world-wide emphasises overriding importance of prey quality at migratory stopover sites. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 1.51
Stopover decision during migration: physiological conditions predict nocturnal restlessness in wild passerines. Biol Lett (2009) 1.47
Scaling up ideals to freedom: are densities of red knots across western Europe consistent with ideal free distribution? Proc Biol Sci (2011) 1.34
Permanent female mimics in a lekking shorebird. Biol Lett (2006) 1.34
Cost-benefit analysis of mollusc-eating in a shorebird. II. Optimizing gizzard size in the face of seasonal demands. J Exp Biol (2003) 1.31
Seasonal redistribution of immune function in a migrant shorebird: annual-cycle effects override adjustments to thermal regime. Am Nat (2008) 1.30
Do uniparental sanderlings Calidris alba increase egg heat input to compensate for low nest attentiveness? PLoS One (2011) 1.28
Low ambient temperature increases food intake and dropping production, leading to incorrect estimates of hormone metabolite concentrations in European stonechats. Horm Behav (2006) 1.27
Migration tendency delays distributional response to differential survival prospects along a flyway. Am Nat (2013) 1.24
Baseline and stress-induced plasma corticosterone during long-distance migration in the bar-tailed godwit, Limosa lapponica. Physiol Biochem Zool (2002) 1.21
Long flights do not influence immune responses of a long-distance migrant bird: a wind-tunnel experiment. J Exp Biol (2007) 1.20
Mechanisms promoting higher growth rate in arctic than in temperate shorebirds. Oecologia (2002) 1.19
Parallel ecological networks in ecosystems. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2009) 1.18
Capture stress and the bactericidal competence of blood and plasma in five species of tropical birds. Physiol Biochem Zool (2006) 1.18
The role of environmental variables in structuring landscape-scale species distributions in seafloor habitats. Ecology (2010) 1.18
Hormonal mechanisms of cooperative behaviour. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2010) 1.18
Baseline and stress-induced levels of corticosterone during different life cycle substages in a shorebird on the high arctic breeding grounds. Physiol Biochem Zool (2002) 1.16
Variation in the innate and acquired arms of the immune system among five shorebird species. J Exp Biol (2006) 1.15
Acclimation to different thermal conditions in a northerly wintering shorebird is driven by body mass-related changes in organ size. J Exp Biol (2006) 1.14
Sex-role reversal is reflected in the brain of African black coucals (Centropus grillii). Dev Neurobiol (2007) 1.13
Sandpipers (Scolopacidae) switch from monoester to diester preen waxes during courtship and incubation, but why? Proc Biol Sci (2002) 1.13
Diet selection in a molluscivore shorebird across Western Europe: does it show short- or long-term intake rate-maximization? J Anim Ecol (2009) 1.12
Incompletely informed shorebirds that face a digestive constraint maximize net energy gain when exploiting patches. Am Nat (2003) 1.12
Switch to diester preen waxes may reduce avian nest predation by mammalian predators using olfactory cues. J Exp Biol (2005) 1.12
Females alter their song when challenged in a sex-role reversed bird species. Behav Ecol Sociobiol (2009) 1.11
Urban-like night illumination reduces melatonin release in European blackbirds (Turdus merula): implications of city life for biological time-keeping of songbirds. Front Zool (2013) 1.10
Food availability but not melatonin affects nocturnal restlessness in a wild migrating passerine. Horm Behav (2010) 1.08
Circannual basis of geographically distinct bird schedules. J Exp Biol (2009) 1.08
Fuel use and metabolic response to endurance exercise: a wind tunnel study of a long-distance migrant shorebird. J Exp Biol (2002) 1.06
Stochastic atmospheric assistance and the use of emergency staging sites by migrants. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.06
Immune function in a free-living bird varies over the annual cycle, but seasonal patterns differ between years. Oecologia (2012) 1.02
How do migratory species stay healthy over the annual cycle? A conceptual model for immune function and for resistance to disease. Integr Comp Biol (2010) 1.02
Baseline haptoglobin concentrations are repeatable and predictive of certain aspects of a subsequent experimentally-induced inflammatory response. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol (2012) 1.01
A dominant allele controls development into female mimic male and diminutive female ruffs. Biol Lett (2013) 1.01
Progesterone modulates aggression in sex-role reversed female African black coucals. Proc Biol Sci (2008) 1.01
How well do food distributions predict spatial distributions of shorebirds with different degrees of self-organization? J Anim Ecol (2010) 0.99
An experimental test of the relationship between temporal variability of feeding opportunities and baseline levels of corticosterone in a shorebird. J Exp Zool (2002) 0.98
Plasma metabolites reflect seasonally changing metabolic processes in a long-distance migrant shorebird (Calidris canutus). Zoology (Jena) (2002) 0.97
Disentangling the roles of frequency-vs. state-dependence in generating individual differences in behavioural plasticity. Ecol Lett (2011) 0.97
Hormonal responses to male-male social challenge in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus: single-broodedness as an explanatory variable. Physiol Biochem Zool (2007) 0.96
Metabolic profile of long-distance migratory flight and stopover in a shorebird. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 0.96
Foraging in a tidally structured environment by Red Knots (Calidris canutus): ideal, but not free. Ecology (2006) 0.96
Economic design in a long-distance migrating molluscivore: how fast-fuelling red knots in Bohai Bay, China, get away with small gizzards. J Exp Biol (2013) 0.95
Limited access to food and physiological trade-offs in a long-distance migrant shorebird. II. Constitutive immune function and the acute-phase response. Physiol Biochem Zool (2009) 0.94
Tropical field endocrinology: ecology and evolution of testosterone concentrations in male birds. Gen Comp Endocrinol (2008) 0.94
How salinity and temperature combine to affect physiological state and performance in red knots with contrasting non-breeding environments. Oecologia (2015) 0.93
Hormonal correlates and thermoregulatory consequences of molting on metabolic rate in a northerly wintering shorebird. Physiol Biochem Zool (2009) 0.92
Immune indexes of larks from desert and temperate regions show weak associations with life history but stronger links to environmental variation in microbial abundance. Physiol Biochem Zool (2012) 0.92
One problem, many solutions: simple statistical approaches help unravel the complexity of the immune system in an ecological context. PLoS One (2011) 0.92
Wild skylarks seasonally modulate energy budgets but maintain energetically costly inflammatory immune responses throughout the annual cycle. PLoS One (2012) 0.91
Use of ethanol for preserving steroid and indoleamine hormones in bird plasma. Gen Comp Endocrinol (2006) 0.90
Impact of season and social challenge on testosterone and corticosterone levels in a year-round territorial bird. Horm Behav (2010) 0.89
A novel mitochondrial gene order in shorebirds (Scolopacidae, Charadriiformes). Mol Phylogenet Evol (2010) 0.88
Testosterone and corticosterone during the breeding cycle of equatorial and European stonechats (Saxicola torquata axillaris and S. t. rubicola). Horm Behav (2006) 0.88
Effects of immune supplementation and immune challenge on oxidative status and physiology in a model bird: implications for ecologists. J Exp Biol (2010) 0.88
Thermogenic side effects to migratory predisposition in shorebirds. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol (2006) 0.88
Avian migration: temporal multitasking and a case study of melatonin cycles in waders. Prog Brain Res (2012) 0.88
Site selection and resource depletion in black-tailed godwits Limosa l. limosa eating rice during northward migration. J Anim Ecol (2010) 0.87
Plasma steroid hormones in two Arctic-breeding shorebirds: monogamy versus polygyny. Gen Comp Endocrinol (2006) 0.87
Ignoring the challenge? Male black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros) do not increase testosterone levels during territorial conflicts but they do so in response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 0.87
Toxin constraint explains diet choice, survival and population dynamics in a molluscivore shorebird. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 0.86
Stressful dieting: nutritional conditions but not compensatory growth elevate corticosterone levels in zebra finch nestlings and fledglings. PLoS One (2010) 0.86
Immune response to an endotoxin challenge involves multiple immune parameters and is consistent among the annual-cycle stages of a free-living temperate zone bird. J Exp Biol (2013) 0.86
Does growth rate determine the rate of metabolism in shorebird chicks living in the Arctic? Physiol Biochem Zool (2007) 0.86
Pathogen pressure puts immune defense into perspective. Integr Comp Biol (2011) 0.85
Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for the measurement of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta). Gen Comp Endocrinol (2012) 0.85
Digestive capacity and toxicity cause mixed diets in red knots that maximize energy intake rate. Am Nat (2014) 0.85
Lipids of the stratum corneum vary with cutaneous water loss among larks along a temperature-moisture gradient. Physiol Biochem Zool (2004) 0.85
Trophic cascade induced by molluscivore predator alters pore-water biogeochemistry via competitive release of prey. Ecology (2012) 0.85
Expression of annual cycles in preen wax composition in red knots: constraints on the changing phenotype. J Exp Zool A Ecol Genet Physiol (2007) 0.85
A tropical bird can use the equatorial change in sunrise and sunset times to synchronize its circannual clock. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 0.84
Persistent diel melatonin rhythmicity during the Arctic summer in free-living willow warblers. Horm Behav (2009) 0.84
Hormonal correlates of social status and courtship display in the cooperatively lekking lance-tailed manakin. Horm Behav (2010) 0.84
Ecological and evolutionary physiology of desert birds: a progress report. Integr Comp Biol (2002) 0.84
Role of the low-affinity glucocorticoid receptor in the regulation of behavior and energy metabolism in the migratory red knot Calidris canutus islandica. Physiol Biochem Zool (2004) 0.84
Hidden haemosporidian infections in Ruffs (Philomachus pugnax) staging in Northwest Europe en route from Africa to Arctic Europe. Parasitol Res (2013) 0.84
Keeping time under the midnight sun: behavioral and plasma melatonin profiles of free-living Lapland longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) during the arctic summer. J Exp Zool A Ecol Genet Physiol (2012) 0.83
Phenotypic flexibility in cutaneous water loss and lipids of the stratum corneum. J Exp Biol (2003) 0.82
Personality drives physiological adjustments and is not related to survival. Proc Biol Sci (2014) 0.82
Repeatability and individual correlates of basal metabolic rate and total evaporative water loss in birds: a case study in European stonechats. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol (2008) 0.82
Natural selection by pulsed predation: survival of the thickest. Ecology (2015) 0.82
Testosterone affects song modulation during simulated territorial intrusions in male black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros). PLoS One (2012) 0.81
Vision and touch in relation to foraging and predator detection: insightful contrasts between a plover and a sandpiper. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 0.81
A gentler method to raise melatonin levels in birds. J Biol Rhythms (2008) 0.81