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1. Full Text Ecology: Birds sing at a higher pitch in urban noise - Great tits hit the high notes to ensure that their mating calls are heard above the city's din
by Slabbekoorn, H and Peet, M
NATURE, ISSN 0028-0836, 07/2003, Volume 424, Issue 6946, pp. 267 - 267
PARUS-MAJOR | SONG | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | HYPOTHESIS | ROADS | SELECTION
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2. Full Text Effects of nocturnal illumination on lifehistory decisions and fitness in two wild songbird species
by De Jong, Maaike and Ouyang, Jenny Q and Da Silva, Arnaud and Van Grunsven, Roy H. A and Kempenaers, Bart and Visser, Marcel E and Spoelstra, Kamiel
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, ISSN 0962-8436, 05/2015, Volume 370, Issue 1667
Life-history | Ficedula hypoleuca | Light spectra | Parus major | Artificial light at night | Fitness
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3. Full Text Offspring sex ratio is related to male body size in the great tit (Parus major)
by Kölliker, M and Heeb, P and Werner, I and Mateman, A.C and Lessells, C.M and Richner, H
Behavioral Ecology, ISSN 1045-2249, 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 68 - 72
Sex allocation theory predicts that the allocation of resources to male and female function should depend on potential fitness gain realized through investment... 
Great tits | Sex allocation | Sexual selection | Parus major | Resource holding potential | Body size | resource holding potential | MANIPULATION | great tits | CARRION CROWS | QUALITY | sexual selection | body size | POPULATIONS | sex allocation | EXTRA-PAIR FERTILIZATIONS | ADJUSTMENT | ATTRACTIVENESS | EVOLUTION | ZOOLOGY | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | ECOLOGY | SELECTION | BIRDS
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4. Full Text Artificial light at night does not affect telomere shortening in a developing free-living songbird: A field experiment
by Grunst, Andrea S and Grunst, Melissa L and Raap, Thomas and Pinxten, Rianne and Eens, Marcel
Science of the Total Environment, ISSN 0048-9697, 04/2019, Volume 662, pp. 266 - 275
Artificial light at night (ALAN) is an increasingly pervasive anthropogenic disturbance factor. ALAN can seriously disrupt physiological systems that follow... 
Telomeres | Parus major | Developmental stress | Artificial light at night | Nitric oxide | Body condition
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5. Full Text Energy metabolism and animal personality
by Careau, V and Thomas, D and Humphries, M. M and Réale, D
Oikos, ISSN 0030-1299, 05/2008, Volume 117, Issue 5, pp. 641 - 653
In this paper we show how animal personality could explain some of the large inter‐individual variation in resting metabolic rate (MR) and explore... 
LABORATORY MICE | TITS PARUS-MAJOR | DOUBLY LABELED WATER | GREAT TITS | JUVENILE ATLANTIC SALMON | BEHAVIORAL SYNDROMES | LIFE-HISTORY | EXPLORATORY-BEHAVIOR | GENETIC CORRELATIONS | ECOLOGY | INDIVIDUAL VARIATION | Physiological aspects | Animal behavior | Ecology | Personality | Evolutionary biology | Metabolism
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6. Full Text Individuals and populations: the role of long-term, individual-based studies of animals in ecology and evolutionary biology
by Clutton-Brock, Tim and Sheldon, Ben C
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, ISSN 0169-5347, 2010, Volume 25, Issue 10, pp. 562 - 573
Many important questions in ecology and evolutionary biology can only be answered with data that extend over several decades and answering a substantial... 
FEMALE SOAY SHEEP | SEX-BIASED DISPERSAL | TIT PARUS-MAJOR | WILD BIRD POPULATION | NATURAL-POPULATIONS | PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY | LIFE-HISTORY CONTINUUM | CLIMATE-CHANGE | TWINS REDUCE FITNESS | GREAT TIT | EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY | GENETICS & HEREDITY | ECOLOGY | Biological Evolution | Ecology - methods | Phenotype | Animals | Time Factors | Social Behavior | Selection, Genetic | Aging | Population | Life Cycle Stages | Sex Ratio | Evolutionary biology | Analysis
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7. Full Text Boldness behavior and stress physiology in a novel urban environment suggest rapid correlated evolutionary adaptation
by Atwell, Jonathan W and Cardoso, Gonçalo C and Whittaker, Danielle J and Campbell-Nelson, Samuel and Robertson, Kyle W and Ketterson, Ellen D
Behavioral Ecology, ISSN 1045-2249, 09/2012, Volume 23, Issue 5, pp. 960 - 969
Novel or changing environments expose animals to diverse stressors that likely require coordinated hormonal and behavioral adaptations. Predicted adaptations... 
adaptation | boldness | junco | evolution | corticosterone | urbanization | PERSONALITY VARIATION | REALIZED HERITABILITY | INDUCED CORTICOSTERONE | EXPLORATORY-BEHAVIOR | POPULATION ESTABLISHMENT | AVIAN PERSONALITIES | DARK-EYED JUNCOS | PARUS-MAJOR | ZOOLOGY | GREAT TITS | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | ECOLOGY | RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR | Original
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8. Full Text Quantifying individual variation in behaviour: mixed-effect modelling approaches
by Niels J. Dingemanse and Ned A. Dochtermann
Journal of Animal Ecology, ISSN 0021-8790, 1/2013, Volume 82, Issue 1, pp. 39 - 54
1. Growing interest in proximate and ultimate causes and consequences of between- and within-individual variation in labile components of the phenotype — such... 
Statistical variance | Ecological modeling | Estimate reliability | Ecological genetics | Statistical models | Animal ecology | Sample size | 'HOW TO...' PAPER | Evolutionary psychology | Ecology | Human ecology | repeatability | mixed‐effect model | personality | multi‐response model | physiology | statistical power | accuracy | plasticity | reaction norm | metabolism | random regression | Repeatability | Accuracy | Plasticity | Random regression | Personality | Physiology | Reaction norm | Mixed-effect model | Metabolism | Multi-response model | Statistical power | EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY | TEMPERAMENT | PRACTICAL GUIDE | RANDOM REGRESSION-MODELS | multi-response model | PARUS-MAJOR | ZOOLOGY | ANIMAL PERSONALITY | ECOLOGY | REACTION NORMS | COVARIATE MEASUREMENT ERROR | mixed-effect model | Behavior, Animal | Reproducibility of Results | Animals | Models, Biological | Research Design | Ecosystem | Quantitative genetics | Models | Animal behavior | Analysis
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9. Full Text Food for Thought: Supplementary Feeding as a Driver of Ecological Change in Avian Populations
by Gillian N. Robb and Robbie A. McDonald and Dan E. Chamberlain and Stuart Bearhop
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, ISSN 1540-9295, 11/2008, Volume 6, Issue 9, pp. 476 - 484
Every year, millions of households provide huge quantities of supplementary food to wild birds. While alteration of the natural dynamics of food supply... 
Birds of prey | Population ecology | Reviews | Food availability | Breeding | Urban ecology | Food security | Chicks | Birds | Food supply | Food | PREDATION | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | TIT PARUS-MAJOR | BREEDING SUCCESS | BLUE TITS | HATCHING ASYNCHRONY | SEX-RATIO | FEEDERS | ECOLOGY | WINTER | REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS | LIMITATION
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10. Full Text Song as an aggressive signal in songbirds
by Searcy, William A and Beecher, Michael D
Animal Behaviour, ISSN 0003-3472, 2009, Volume 78, Issue 6, pp. 1281 - 1292
Birdsong is often regarded as an aggressive signal. More specifically, particular singing behaviours are hypothesized to be threatening, including song type... 
vocal performance | song matching | song switching | aggressive signalling | birdsong | song overlapping | TIT PARUS-MAJOR | SINGING BEHAVIOR | BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES | TERRITORY DEFENSE | RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS | ZOOLOGY | INTERACTIVE PLAYBACK | SPARROWS MELOSPIZA-MELODIA | PAIRING SUCCESS | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | VOCAL INTERACTIONS | NIGHTINGALES LUSCINIA-MEGARHYNCHOS
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11. Full Text The Use of Leukocyte Profiles to Measure Stress in Vertebrates: A Review for Ecologists
by A. K. Davis and D. L. Maney and J. C. Maerz
Functional Ecology, ISSN 0269-8463, 10/2008, Volume 22, Issue 5, pp. 760 - 772
1. A growing number of ecologists are turning to the enumeration of white blood cells from blood smears (leukocyte profiles) to assess stress in animals. There... 
Vertebrates | Glucocorticoids | Lymphocytes | Corticosterone | Neutrophils | Leukocytes | Hormones | Review | Human ecology | Mammals | Blood | stress | lymphocytes | leukocytes | glucocorticoids | heterophils | neutrophils | vertebrates | Heterophils | Stress | TIT PARUS-MAJOR | BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHINS | HEALTH STATE INDEXES | PLUMAGE COLORATION | PAEDOMORPHIC MOLE SALAMANDERS | NOTOPHTHALMUS-VIRIDESCENS | ECOLOGY | BLOOD-CELL COUNTS | IMMUNE FUNCTION | TROUT ONCORHYNCHUS-MYKISS | RELATIVE LYMPHOCYTE COUNT
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