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Assalaam O Alaikum

I was sensing it earlier, and my collegue also pointed this out day before, but yesterday I found it hard proof. Do not trust ChatGPT for citing and delegating your LR, except for areas in which you are new and need a bird eye view. See following post that I did on LinkedIn for what happened.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-dangerous-could-chatgpt-muhammad-asif-jaffer

Bird coffee was promoted in Africa? What was the relevance of promoting it

fish servers as intermediate host and birds as definite hosts to these parasites.

Is there a chemical product that will kill rats without causing secondary poisoning to birds or to humans?

When rever what is waterbird the obvious answer always said that waterbird is a type of bird that lives and depend their live around body of water. But is it just that? Does waterbird itself has special taxonomy like subclass or other? or is it classify by only their morphology?

My intention is to make visible part of the most important specimens deposited in the Colección Zoológica Dr. Eustorgio Méndez in Panama City.

I’m a field biologist working on social evolution. I want to switch from micro-satellites to SNPs to determine kinship and sex of individuals (I'm working on a corvid bird). Does anybody know which commercial companies that can do Dartseq for the SNP discovery step and the subsequent SNP typing (e.g. with DD-RAD methods or similar) in Europe or North America? And, what would the first step and the second step cost for 3000 individuals?

Thanks a lot!

Hello everyone,

When it comes to using a protopatagial tag in birds, I wonder if it is essential to tag both wings to retain birds‘ "balance", or if one tag is alright. While browsing papers, I could come across both alternatives, individuals carrying only one protopatagial tag or birds with both wings marked. Thank you for sharing your experience and clarification.

Dear Community,

I’m searching for a researcher / research group who is working on behavioural tests – colour discrimination in birds of prey. I would be very grateful for advice and hints! Best, Dominique

I would like to know the equation that shows the relationship between the flight speed of a bird and its wingspan.

Thanks

For example I have an cellulase solution of 3.50 iu/ml. And I need to adjust to a concentration of 100, 250 or 500 iu/ bird/ to feed my experimental poutry bird. How do I calculate this pls

Birds like Himalayan & Tibetan snowcocks, Tibetan partridges, and Tibetan sandgrouse (comparatively larger birds) are considered good indicators of ecosystem health, particularly regarding Ladakh and the Indian trans-Himalaya. Any publications you could recommend to me or comments you have on this would be greatly appreciated.

Do wood mice attack birds in hollows or artificial nests? For example, the mouse Sylvaemus tauricus attacks birds?

It is a known fact that ticks can migrate to other continents by parasitizing on the body surface of migratory birds. There are some specific influencing factors that affect this, and I would like to know the interrelationship between them.

Thanks

I would like to extract coding sequences of bird genomes. I am not an ornithologist. So, I would like to know about any resource which tells us the details of all annotated bird genomes.

I'm planning to explore the avian seed dispersal and needed help in planning the research. I'm stuck with collection of bird feces from the floor (paved and unpaved) and the equipments required to collect the sample. Additionally, what is the maximum time limit to collect the poop sample after the roosting period to avoid collecting dry samples?

Note: I'm not considering to use mist nets to capture birds. I'm only focussing on collection of feces available directly on the ground.

Is there any equation to calculate the number of animal needed for the study?

Hi everyone

I am looking for gape sizes of the following species. I would be grateful if you have data or references that specifically mention these species (I am not tlooking for references to general papers on gape size).

Auriparus flaviceps (Verdin)

Brotogeris versicolorus (White-winged Parakeet)

Onychognathus tristramii (Tristram's grackle)

Psittacara holochlorus (Green Parakeet)

Psittacula krameri (Rose-ringed Parakeet)

Pycnonotus cafer (Red-vented Bulbul)

Pycnonotus jocosus (Red-whiskered Bulbul)

Pycnonotus xanthopygos (White-spectacled Bulbul)

Rousettus aegyptiacus (Egyptian Fruit bat )

Setophaga coronata (Yellow-rumped Warbler)

Sialia currocoides (Mountain Bluebird)

Any help is much appreciated

Hi all,

I am trying to import fastq.gz files in qiime2, but the following error appears:

There was a problem importing /home/manuel_os/bird:

Missing one or more files for CasavaOneEightSingleLanePerSampleDirFmt: '.+_.+_L[0-9][0-9][0-9]_R[12]_001\\.fastq\\.gz'

I am using the following code:

qiime tools import --type 'SampleData[PairedEndSequencesWithQuality]' --input-path /home/manuel_os/bird --input-format CasavaOneEightSingleLanePerSampleDirFmt --output-path demux-single-end.qza

Any help will be deeply appreciated, thanks a lot!

Human activities have greatly changed the natural environment since the Industrial Revolution. Have migratory birds changed their migration routes? Why can migratory birds do this?

Which software do you recommend for analyzing computed tomography images?

The project is about bird brains so it involves measurements and anatomical reconstructions. I have heard about Avizo, Mimics and SlicerMorph. Which do you suggest and why?

Thank you all in advance.

HI! There is some evidence that the Cackling Geese in an urban lake are consuming small (less than 5cm) fish. Has anyone heard of these birds eating non-vegetative items? I can't find publications that substantiate anything but plants in their diet. Thanks in advance for any leads/observations you might have!

The popular IRES from HCV or EMCV was used in quite a few plasmid. I am wondering any one try them in fish or bird?

Dear Research Gate community,

I’m conducting a study on how different management practices in wetland (ponds) affects the diversity and abundance of species in the wetlands. The different ponds are next to each other. Some ponds are control without any management practices. The water in the treatment ponds is regularly drawn down and filled up again with water from the river. We recorded the waterbird species number and abundance of each pond regularly (record the bird data of all the ponds at the same time for each survey).

- In the first year, we conducted a baseline study in which no treatment was done for all the ponds (data were collected monthly).

- In the second year, we conducted the treatment (operational study), and data of birds were collected weekly.

We’re now trying to study:

1) first, if there is any difference between the treatment ponds and control ponds during the operation

2) if there is any difference between baseline study and operational study of the same pond.

We wonder what kind of statistics are suitable for statistically analysing our data.

Some problems we are encountering is:

1. The data do look like normally distributed. The data collected are time series data, there are natural seasonal variation in the number of waterbirds in our region (a lot of migratory birds in fall and winter). How to take into account of influence of the time of survey.

2. The sample frequency for baseline year (12 times) and operational year is different (52 times), how to compare the difference between baseline and operational year.

Highly appreciate any help or suggestion!

Best regards

Hello,

I am fitting Generalized Mixed Models using a logistic-exposure link function (which accounts for exposure periods) to model birds nest survival (i.e., probability of surviving a certain time interval).

I need to compute Marginal and Conditional R^2 for the models. However, I am struggling to find an R function to compute these given this specific link function. Particularly, I used the r.squaredGLMM() [MuMin package] and the rsquared() [piecewiseSEM package] functions, which both return errors, "Error in r.squaredGLMM.merMod(m11) :

do not know how to calculate variance for binomial(“logexp(carpint$Exposure)”)" and "Error in make.link(link) : ‘logexp(carpint$Exposure)’ link not recognised", respectively.

Model:

m11 <- glmer(Surv~Volume + (1|nest)+(1|season),

family=binomial(logexp(exposure = carpint$Exposure)),

data=carpint)

Any help is appreciated!

Dear RG community members,

I hope you are well and helthy and ready for small discussion. My question is, can we efficiently increase the population of wetfowls in wetland areas by constracting and using artificial nests suitable for specific taxa? If you also have any reference on that issue, I would be grateful.

Thank you.

Zlatko

I'm interested in estimating how much time do birds (independent of their taxonomic group) spend in contact with soil, particularly on heathland ecosystems. I would use this information as a proxy to assess whether birds would be more or less likely to pick up (either accidental or active -phoresy-) non-parasitic soil arthropods in comparison to other groups (e.g. rodents, herpetofauna, etc.). This approach is at an exploratory stage, so depending on how detailed is this information -if available-, I will decide if it makes sense to use it or not.

Dear Researchers

Kindly suggest me the potent chemicals, which can be used in depredatory bird management in horticultural and agricultural crops

I have two species of birds, for each species I measured 4 replicates of an enzyme for each individual. When I ran the tests for normality it came out that my data are not normally distributed so I cannot use the repeated measures ANOVA to test for differences between species. Transformations didn't work for my data. Which non parametric test should I use?

Is there a tried and true technique for collecting pollen from bird feathers for metabarcoding purposes? I have been told by a very reliable source that fuchsine gel will not work, and tape seems troublesome; both for metabarcoding, and for partnerships with banding stations that I hope to implement. I am hoping to test out different swab types in the next few days (namely foam and flocked), but perhaps someone here has a better idea or has tried a given technique successfully?

I am currently working on a project that aims to characterise in R on a pool of 500 bird species the traits that may be at the origin of their introduction outside their natural habitat and thus allowing them to become invasive or not.

Thus, out of my pool of 500 species, I ended up with 150 bird species that were introduced elsewhere (introduction = 1) versus 350 others that were not introduced (introduction = 0), with approximately 80 life history traits for each of them.

My idea was therefore to use PGLS (linear models correcting for the phylogenetic effect of species on their traits) on my pool of 500 species and see which traits could explain the "introduction" variable.

The problem is that by doing this my results are biased by the presence of many more non-introduced birds than introduced birds. My initial idea was to use bootstrapping to resample my n=350 birds to n=150 and run my PGLS on this new pool of 300 species (n=150 introduced and n=150 unintroduced), repeat it and then do some model averaging.

However by doing this my final models obtained in this way are completely different at each of my R sessions. I have tried increasing the number of bootstrap runs to 10,000 but this does not solve the problem. When I do this with basic GLMs I do not encounter this problem of non-repeatability.

Would you have a solution to solve this problem of repeatability with the PGLS in my process?

Hello,

I want to extract testosterone from plasma samples, but I don't have diethyl ether, as generally recommended for ELISA assay. Thus I am looking for an alternative and considering other organic solvents Methanol, Dichloromethane or Ethanol. I used Dichloromethane to extract corticosterone but I'm not sure that testosterone would have the same affinity as dichloromethane. My aim is to compare circulating testosterone levels between individuals.

Thank you in advance

Dear colleagues

I am looking for recommendations for assessment of diet selectivity of a fish-eating bird.

I have data on relative numbers and weight, as well as sizes, of prey species estimated from bird diet samples. I also have results from gill-net monitoring fisheries (length, weight and number of fish) from the same area.

For a beginner in this field (i.e. me), what would be a straightforward way to start looking at the diet selectivity of the birds?

Are there indices that look at selectivity of both species size distribution?

Kind regards,

Karl

Does vegetation structure (e.g. tree raminification pattern) affect bird nesting activity and nest abundance? Could you please recommend studies related to this topic? Thanks

Greetings to all those interested and eager to help.

In short: During 12 breeding seasons, my colleagues and I researched the nesting of one bird species on an area of ​​about 11,000 hectares. We spent the first two years looking exclusively for territories/nests. We recorded a total of 34 different territories/nests. For the next ten years, we had in mind to monitor the reproductive parameters (laying dates, number of eggs, number of offspring, etc.) for all 34 territorial pairs found. However, due to the vast study area, hard mountain relief, bad weather conditions and lack of time in general, we did not visit every territorial pair every year (we did it completely randomly). So, in some years, we followed the nesting parameters in only five territories, while in others, we managed to monitor up to 20 territories and collect reproductive data. For each year collected data table contained: year, number of controlled nests, number of nests with incubation, number of successful pairs, number of fledglings, productivity and nesting success. We defined productivity as the number of fledged juveniles divided by the number of successful nesting attempts. Nesting success was defined as the number of fledged juveniles divided by the total number of nesting attempts during one calendar year. My question is whether it is possible and in what way (statistical modelling, simple formula, etc.) to express the population trend for the entire monitored population with the help of partially collected reproductive data? So is it possible to project a ten-year overall population trend based on annual productivity and nesting performance data?

Thanks in advance for the comments, suggestions and literature.

Sincerely yours,

If you calculate the coefficients of diversity, how correct the indicators will be. There are 6 research sites, almost the same species of birds are found on each of them???

Techniques, methods, practices, tips & tricks for bird species identification.

Hello,

I would like to measure provisioning rates in Eurasian Blue tits. My plan is to color ring them, so that I can distinguish between male and female.

In my system they breed in nest boxes, however I do not have the possibility to place a camera within a nest box. PIT tags are also not an option for me. Visual surveys can have problems because If the bird does not land on the nest box hole, then it would be impossible to know if it was a male or female.

I need a camera that could film at least 6h (with batteries). I plan to film at least 30 nests and to move the cameras around, so I may need about 12 cameras.

Of course I have a quality vs quantity vs cost trade off.

Somebody suggested using a security camera, but the problem is that there is no screen to see what you are filming and no WIFI for me to connect the camera to my phone in the field.

Others have suggested camcorders, but their models are no longer being sold and they can get pretty expensive.

Any technical suggestions will be super helpful.

Sincerely,

Chase

Currently, my research object is crested lark Galerida cristata. I need to obtain measurements from adult birds, but they are difficult to catch. Standard catching methods such as ornithological mist nets or spring traps are not effective enough. Could someone recommend other methods of catching not only Galerida cristata, but generally birds species from Alaudidae larks?

I will be very grateful for any suggestions or advice you can provide.

I work with zebra finch embryos (~E4-hatching). I would like to know the sex of the embryos so that I can test whether males and females differ in their responses to my experiments. Our lab is not equipped to do molecular work. I would appreciate any advice about visually distinguishing between male and female bird embryos by looking at internal reproductive anatomy. Thank you!

Mammals ravage the nests of artificial nesting birds. There are probably modern methods that display data from burglary attempts, etc.

Dear all,

The recent studies (including ours: https://1url.cz/rKhj9, https://1url.cz/WKhj8 and https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.36573.13288) highlight the importance of small farms and poultry yards (especially hens) as an important foraging site for some granivorous birds inhabiting countryside settlements. On the other hand, there are (anecdotal) observations of hens attacking and killing small passerines. Additionally, I expect competition for invertebrates, attracted to poultry-yard but eaten by hens, thus unavailable for wild birds.

I´m wondering if there is some published or even unpublished work/paper/observation of this interaction or other negative impacts of hens and poultry yards on wild birds.

Thank you.

I have recently found a fairly slender isopod attached to the eggs/embryos of an Apseudopsis mediterraneus (Tanaidacea) sampled off the coast of Israel. The isopod itself appeared to be protected by a thin mucous sac.

Any ideas where I should start my search for a possible identification?

Many thanks.

Graham Bird

I am having an issue with my bird strike simulation. I am trying to simulate a bird strike with an Elastic-Plastic Solids with Damage and Failure constitutive bird model. I select element deletion option as 'Yes' under Element Type options. Elements are starting to break after a time but they are not vanishing from the model, as in figure. Can you tell me why I am having this issue. Sincerely, Kenan.

We collect blood in the field from wild birds to determine the sex. We have always used the FTA Classic Card, but we bought the FTA Elute Micro Card by mistake, and we didn't have time to replace them.

Is the lab procedure different for the FTA Elute Micro Card? or can the same methods be used to extract and amplify the DNA?

I have investigated the population density of the crested ibis. The crested ibis is a water bird occurs in central China. Its habitat can be divided into a number of watersheds, and the mean size of the watersheds is 150 square km.

I intend to use two explanatory variables (land cover and watershed) to explain the number of individuals in watersheds. The model is:

number of individuals ~ Watershed (4 levels) + Landcover (3 levels) + Year (5 levels)

There is no trend among the five years, so that the variable year were defined as a categorical variable.

In the split plot design, the five years are five replications. The land cover can be defined as a whole plot measurement, and the watershed can be defined as a subplot measurement. The number of individuals in watershed are from tens to hundreds, and I assume it follows a normal distribution.

If I use a mixed effect model, the variable year is a random factor. I am interested in the difference between the four watersheds, so that I don’t treat watershed as a random factor. The land cover is also a fixed factor.

Please let know which model is better, the split plot design or a mixed effect model?

Hi, I was trying to determine the presence and types of microplastics in the respiratory tracts of birds. Other than a few fibers that too in only few samples, I have been unable to find any MPs in my samples. I don't want these samples to go waste, and wish to evaluate them for possible presence of heavy metals. However, (mistake at my part), I had put all samples on alkaline digestion (with KOH). Now, my query is, is it possible to determine heavy metals (HM) in KOH digested samples? Because as far as I know, only acid digestion works for HM determination. Any guidance in this regard will be appreciated.

Has anyone had any success with constructing a behavioral test for anxiety or exploratory behavior in the zebra finch? I have already tested several prototypes:

1) A medium-sized holding cage that is recorded from above using Ethovision, using the Open-field template. The birds either stood in place for 10 minutes, or kept flying and grasping onto the walls of the cage.

2) A cardboard cube with equal-area subdivisions on the floor. The birds either stood in place for 15 minutes, or kept trying to fly into the opaque-cloth ceiling. (Open-field type test)

3) A long rectangular prism, also subdivided on the floor, with evenly spaced perches throughout, with an acrylic ceiling.. Again, they froze in place the whole time, or tried to escape through the top. (Open-field type test)

4) For a plus-maze style test, the arena's frame was made of pipes connected to make a three-dimensional plus shape. The sides were covered in chicken wire, and the top was acrylic. The open side was facing the floor. When I put a bird in this, they quickly flew to one side of the plus and back, and froze for 10 minutes.

The birds had these reactions even when they could not see me.

I want to know what are the various techniques/methods we can use to monitor bird population.

I am looking for illustrations of insects parts found in European bird pellets, especially interested on Orthoptera.

For some poeple Plastic Road is highly hazardous, especially for aquatic animals and birds. When plastics are exposed to sunlight and especially heat, they begin to turn into a harmful health element called microplastics. This harmful element is absorbed into the soil and has the ability to accumulate toxic substances around it.

"Coastal Geomorphology" of Eric Bird -second edition- book has a number of quite harsh expressions for me as a hydraulic engineer. It might be prepared for geologists and earth scientists. I wonder if anyone has a summary -as a presentation for example- to ease understanding the book for other backgrounds.

Assuming that we have an individual animal (e.g a bird) migrate from a to b locations in three days; the bird follow some daily env stimuli.

Can we use the deep reinforcement learning or simply the Q-learning to train the agent to move from a to b!

What I have found is that we can do so in case the environment is static, ( a simple example avoiding obstacle).

Many tasks performed by autonomous vehicles such as road marking detection, pavement crack detection and object tracking are simpler in bird's-eye view. Hence, Inverse Perspective Mapping (IPM) is often applied to remove the perspective effect from a vehicle's front-facing camera and to remap its images into a 2D domain, resulting in a top-down view. Unfortunately, this leads to unnatural blurring and stretching of objects at further distance, due to the resolution of the camera, limiting applicability.

Is there an improved version of this technique ? An improved IPM ? How does it work ? I need this to validate my new automatic road crack detection approach.

Greatly appreciate your review

I need the names of the top journals related with wildlife conservation or birds.

We are working with white-winged snowfinches, alpine bird species breeding in rock crevices, roofs and skilift pylons and struggle to access nests in some of the deeper cavities (50 cm to 1 m). We are using an endoscope, but it is often difficult to access nests in deep cavities when they are really contorted (as we dont know the internal structure of the cavities).

We are mainly interested in counting the number of chicks, but also to place ibuttons for temperature measurements if someone has an idea how to place (and retreat!) them.

I am interested to know which methods people working on similar cavity-breeding birds (preferably rock crevices, as we are facing unique problems ina ccessability and cavity structure as f.i. woodpeckers will not have) use to gather nest information (if at all?).

Thank you very much in advance, Christian

In a genomic study of two closely related species of birds and notice many loci that differ between the two species, genomic differentiation occurs, my question is are they mutually exclusive?

I don't know much about genetics, happy to hear your thougths of this

Thank you

Dear colleagues,

I am planning to collect blood smear specimens from wild birds in water swamp territories of Shirvan National Park (Azerbaijan, Caucasus). Unfortunately, I have some problems with description of blood parasites from blood of birds — haemosporidians and others.

Due to all above-mentioned moments I invite colleagues in these field in co-operation.

If you know any specialist in this field, please inform me.

Sincerely,

Mehdi Ali.

I want to use bird scarers in pomegranate crop, kindly suggest

Can I get the Bird feather DNA extraction protocol Manual? I would like to have a manual protocol rather than a kit method.

Hi

How do we interpret the scatter plot to assessing the response of the bird community toward the logging effect?

The X-axis is the relative abundance of the bird species recorded before logging

the Y-axis is the relative abundance of the bird species recorded after logging.

Do there have any suitable analysis is recommended for assessing the response of birds towards the logging effect?

Being in different biotopes, ornithologists find nests of wild birds, catch them for study. Birds are carriers of ticks, which in turn are carriers of viruses. In addition to itching, they do not harm humans, but through clothing or other things, feed can get onto poultry. Therefore, I would like to know modern methods and measures to combat ticks in wild birds caught in the forest?

Good morning

I am doing a project on auditory enrichment for two rescued Senegal parrots (Poicephalus senegalus). I just wondered if anyone had done something similar with any other birds in the Psittacidae family as I am very interested in this subject.

Thank-you in advance, I am new on here so hope this is okay to ask?

Kind regards

Sally

I want test reinforcement learning controller in quadrotor. I want buy quadrotor and check some paper used AR.Drone 2 , crazyfile and humming bird quadrotor. which of this quadrotor better for test reinforcement learning controller.

I'm looking at gut bacteria in heat stressed birds but I'm not certain after how long can I sample faeces after episode of heat stress. I don't want to sample early before the changes shows in faeces or too late.

In many fields, farmers use this nylon net to trap birds and insects which feeds on the fruits and seeds. In farmer's point of view, it minimise their loss but from ecological point of view it kills lots of birds and insects. Many birds got trapped and die as a result of this kind of application as observed. So, from ecological point of view is it good? Please comment your own view regarding this issue.

Is it good to use linear regression?

In a nice article on a mimicry system

it is stated that model and mimic have to co-occur.

I believe this is wrong.

Imagine a migratory bird that encounters the model in Africa and the mimic in Europe (or vice versa). Model and mimic do not have to co-occur. They only have to be experienced by the same individual.

Does anybody know such cases ?

Peter

We conduct research on domestic animals and birds behavior is to improve welfare. We study the housing enrichment different of feeding system etc using continuous videos which generate huge data. How do we analyze it by automated software?

I performed Indirect ELISA of 63 birds out of 63000 broiler poultry birds.

Age 33 days.

shed type : Semi control shed.

vaccinated against NDV was done at age 1 day old.

The mortality increased in the shed when ELISA performed by IDEXX kits by using Imark following was the result.

Need to discuss with experts.

I would like to compare egg pattern between cuckoo and host eggs to measure pattern mimicry. In the past I have used a tool developed by Troscianko and Stevens (2015) to do this, but I was curious to know if there were any other tools out there that could be used to compare similarity in egg pattern between different bird species? Also, if anyone has suggestions about a good way to measure egg shape, I would be happy to know that too!

Hey,

I was wondering if you can answer my survey in as much detail as possible. I understand some pictures are the same but you can simply put N/A on them. Ideally the first two pictures would be helpful to write in as much detail as possible and the final question about birds.

However its based on the proximity of the birds and how it makes you feel being further away or closer.

Thank you.

I am writing a report for university looking at bird communities in 3 different habitat settings. The data looks at the whether both bird abundance and bird diversity differs between habitats. I have data from 2019 and 2020 taken from the same locations, looking at the same species of birds and was hoping to get clarification on whether the data can be combined or whether it would need individual analysis using R and then a written comparison.

I only ask on here as I am trying to excel my writing capabilities in preparation of writing my dissertation.

Kleptoparasitism is a form of feeding in which one animal takes prey or other food that was caught, collected, or otherwise prepared by another animal, including stored food. It is common among seabirds, birds of prey and insects.

This interaction is a kind of "competition", "parasitism" or even is it a specific ecological interaction? If you know, can you provide a bibliographic reference for that?

Thank you!!

Dear colleagues,

We are conducting a research on the influence of anthropogenic pollution on different types of bird colouration, including both feathers and bare-parts of skin. In this study, we aim to estimate the scale of the problem and to identify significant knowledge gaps for better targeting of future research. Specifically, we would like to focus on two aspects:

- the impact of specific types of pollution (e.g. heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls or radiation), preferably with a known concentration in the studied habitat or bird's tissues, on the expression of colour traits.

- the influence of urban environments on the expression of colour traits, preferably in studies comparing birds from urban vs rural/natural habitats.

We are seeking the data from both correlative and experimental studies. Whenever possible, we would like to request the raw data, with means, SE and sample size, otherwise we also request for correlation and other statistics from the models, together with sample sizes.

Examples of data we prefer are:

Differences in colouration between control and polluted/anthropogenic pressure treated groups

Correlation between pollution/anthropogenic factor and colouration

We will consider all measures of colouration (spectrophotometric, photography-based, colour scoring).

If you have any kind of unpublished data, data from PhD thesis, or from the upcoming articles, we will be very thankful for possibility to include your findings in our study. We are waiting for the data until the 15th of May.

Contact: katarzyna.janas1@gmail.com

We will be very grateful for your contribution!

Best wishes,

Agnieszka Gudowska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków),

Katarzyna Janas (Jagiellonian University, Kraków),

Szymon Drobniak (Jagiellonian University, University of New South Wales, Sydney)