Owing to its ubiquity and easy availability in nature, light has been widely employed to
control complex cellular behaviors. Light-sensitive proteins are the foundation to such …

Birds use their visual systems for important tasks, such as foraging and predator detection,
that require them to resolve an image. However, visual acuity (the ability to perceive spatial …

Insectivores of the tropical rainforest floor are consistently among the most vulnerable birds
to forest clearing and fragmentation. Several hypotheses attempt to explain this pattern …

The link between dispersal traits and patterns of community assembly remains a frontier in
understanding how vertebrate communities persist in fragmented landscapes. Using …

Bills and legs are two vital appendages for birds, and they exhibit huge interspecific
variation in form and function, yet no study has examined the global predictors of this …

The fragmentation of tropical forests remains a major driver of avian biodiversity loss,
particularly for insectivores, yet the mechanisms underlying area sensitivity remain poorly …

Abstract Changes in ecological preference, often driven by spatial and temporal variation in
resource distribution, can expose populations to environments with divergent information …

Simple Summary Birds often exhibit differences in locomotion, foraging, and predator
detection, many of which are often reflected in their eye sizes. Therefore, understanding the …

Urbanization now exposes large portions of the earth to sources of anthropogenic
disturbance, driving rapid environmental change and producing novel environments …

Although the duration of biological rhythms varies from milliseconds to decades, daily cycles
are especially widespread for individual organisms. These circadian rhythms are …