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Csenge Sinkovics

Csenge Sinkovics
Independent Researcher · Department of Limnology, University of Pannonia

PhD
Biologist, researcher, conservation activist, folk craftswoman (feltmaker)

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Introduction
My PhD has focused on the chick-feeding behaviour and the breeding success of great tits in urban and natural environments. I'm also a conservation activist and particularly interested in how the change of our civilization's mentality and lifestyle could lead to a healthy Planet. If you have any questions or ideas, don't hesitate to contact me.

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Publications (11)
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Urbanization can have marked effects on plant and animal populations’ phenology, population size, predator‐prey interactions and reproductive success. These aspects are rarely studied simultaneously in a single system, and some are rarely investigated, e.g. how insect phenology responds to urban development. Here, we study a tri‐trophic system of t...
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Video recordings are commonly used to study the types, amount, and size of food items provided to nestling birds. However, the accuracy and repeatability of estimates of the size of food items from video recordings has not been examined. We assessed three aspects of the reliability of measuring prey size from video recordings of Great Tits (Parus m...
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Rapidly increasing urbanisation is one of the most significant anthropogenic environmental changes which can affect demographic traits of animal populations, for example resulting in reduced reproductive success. The food limitation hypothesis suggests that the shortage of high-quality nestling food in cities is a major factor responsible for the r...
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Climate change and urbanisation are among the most salient human-induced changes affecting Earth’s biota. Extreme weather events can have high biological impacts and are becoming more frequent recently. In cities, the urban heat island can amplify the intensity and frequency of hot weather events. However, the joint effects of heat events and urban...
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To understand why early broods tend to be more successful than late broods we investigated the nestling diet and reproductive success of great tit pairs that had both a first and a second brood in the same breeding season. We found that in forest habitats great tit parents delivered similar composition and amount of food per nestlings throughout th...
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Urbanization is one of the strongest habitat transforming processes today that has resulted in changes in the ecological conditions for wild populations. In birds, the limitation of natural food sources and a warmer microclimate in cities can potentially influence the development and functioning of the plumage that may have important fitness conseq...
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Urban areas differ from natural habitats in several environmental features that influence the characteristics of animals living there. For example, birds often start breeding seasonally earlier and fledge fewer offspring per brood in cities than in natural habitats. However, longer breeding seasons in cities may increase the frequency of double-bro...
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Urban animals often show bolder behaviour towards humans than their nonurban conspecifics. However, it is unclear to what extent this difference is due to consistent individual characteristics or to plasticity such as habituation. To address this question, we investigated parental risk-taking behaviour in 371 female great tits in urban and forest p...
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The plumage of birds plays an essential role in thermal insulation and influences the heat tolerance of birds. These plumage functions are mainly determined by the number and the density of feathers, but it is unclear how feather density responds to environmental changes in wild populations. In urban birds, both high temperature and limited food co...
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Climate change and urbanization are among the most salient human-induced changes affecting Earth’s biota. Extreme weather events can have high biological impacts and are becoming more frequent recently. In cities, the urban heat island can amplify the intensity and frequency of hot weather events. However, the joint effects of heat events and urban...

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