Civil War Is Associated with Longer Escape Distances among Sri Lankan Birds

Autor: Kithsiri Ranawana, Michael A. Weston, Jonathan J. Gnanapragasam, Kasun B. Ekanayake, Matthew R. E. Symonds

Publikováno v: The American Naturalist. 198:653-659

War influences wildlife in a variety of ways but may influence their escape responses to approaching threats, including humans, because of its effect on human populations and behavior and landscape change. We collected 1,400 flight initiation distanc

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https://doi.org/10.1086/716660

The Early Shorebird Will Catch Fewer Invertebrates on Trampled Sandy Beaches.

Autor: Thomas A Schlacher, Lucy K Carracher, Nicholas Porch, Rod M Connolly, Andrew D Olds, Ben L Gilby, Kasun B Ekanayake, Brooke Maslo, Michael A Weston

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 8, p e0161905 (2016)

Many species of birds breeding on ocean beaches and in coastal dunes are of global conservation concern. Most of these species rely on invertebrates (e.g. insects, small crustaceans) as an irreplaceable food source, foraging primarily around the stra

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Transmission of a novel predatory behaviour is not restricted to kin

Autor: Duncan R. Sutherland, Kasun B. Ekanayake, Laura Xin Lu Tan, Craig D. H. Sherman, Wouter F. D. van Dongen, Peter Dann, Michael A. Weston

Publikováno v: Biological Invasions.

Corvids are exceptional predators which can become problematic and difficult to manage due to their adaptability, intelligence, and abundance. On Phillip Island (Victoria, Australia) little ravens (Corvus mellori) prey on the eggs of burrow-nesting l

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02517-4

Functional replacement across species pools of vertebrate scavengers separated at a continental scale maintains an ecosystem function

Autor: Rod M. Connolly, Thomas A. Schlacher, Andrew D. Olds, Marion B. Brown, Kasun B. Ekanayake, Rosemary R. McVeigh, David S. Schoeman, Michael A. Weston, Chantal M. Huijbers

Publikováno v: Functional Ecology. 30:998-1005

1.The composition of species pools can vary in space and time. While many studies are focused on understanding which factors influence the make-up of species pools, the question to which degree biogeographic variation in species composition propagate

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https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12577

The bright incubate at night: sexual dichromatism and adaptive incubation division in an open-nesting shorebird

Autor: Kasun B. Ekanayake, Michael A. Weston, Grainne S. Maguire, John A. Endler, Dale G. Nimmo, Clemens Küpper

Publikováno v: Proceedings. Biological sciences, vol 282, iss 1806
Ekanayake, KB; Weston, MA; Nimmo, DG; Maguire, GS; Endler, JA; & Küpper, C. (2015). The bright incubate at night: Sexual dichromatism and adaptive incubation division in an open-nesting shorebird. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1806). doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.3026. UC Santa Barbara: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/94h6j3hw

Ornamentation of parents poses a high risk for offspring because it reduces cryptic nest defence. Over a century ago, Wallace proposed that sexual dichromatism enhances crypsis of open-nesting females although subsequent studies found that dichromati

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