Εργαστήριο Συμπεριφορικής Οικολογίας και Εξέλιξης
Επιλεγμένες Δημοσιεύσεις
Moysi, M., Ogolowa, B. O., Nikiforou, C., Dretakis, M., Brelsford, A., Kirschel, A. N. G. Genomic data reveal contrasting patterns of divergence among island and mainland birds of the Eastern Mediterranean. Ibis, in press. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13178
Sebastianelli, M., Lukhele, S. M., Nwankwo, E. C., Hadjioannou, L., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2022. Continent-wide patterns of song variation predicted by classical rules of biogeography. Ecology Letters 25: 2448-2462. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14102
Patchett, R., Kirschel, A. N. G., Robins King, J., Styles, P. S., and Cresswell, W. 2022. Age-related changes in migratory behaviour within the first annual cycle of a passerine bird. PLoS ONE 17(10): e0273686, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273686
Kirschel, A. N. G. and Sebastianelli, M. 2022. A reassessment of the East African ranges of two subspecies of Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconus based on a comparison of plumage, biometrics and song. Scopus: Journal of East African Ornithology 42: 1-9 https://www.ajol.info/index.php/scopus/article/view/229433
Hellicar, M. A., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2022. Influence of grazing and fire on breeding birds and perennial plants in Cyprus scrub and forest systems. Journal for Nature Conservation 68:126207
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2022.126207
Magory Cohen, T., Hauber, M., Akriotis, T., Crochet, P-A., Karris, G., Kirschel, A. N. G., Khoury, F., Menchetti, M., Mori, E., Per, E., Reino, L., Saavedra, S., Santana, J., and Dor, R. 2022. Accelerated avian invasion into the Mediterranean region endangers biodiversity and mandates international collaboration. Journal of Applied Ecology 59: 1440-1455. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14150
Pallari, C. Th., Christodoulou, V., Koliou, M., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2022. First detection of WNV RNA presence in field-collected mosquitoes in Cyprus. Acta Tropica 231:106470.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106470
Lukhele, S. M., Widdows, C., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2022. Video evidence of song in a nestling Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus) supports innate song development in Piciformes. Wilson Journal of Ornithology https://meridian.allenpress.com/wjo/article-abstract/doi/10.1676/21-00072/481010
Patchett, R., Styles, P. S., Robins King, J., Kirschel, A. N. G., and Cresswell, W. 2022. Does juvenile dispersal function to locate a future breeding site prior to migration? Current Zoology https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoac002
Hadjikyriakou, T. G., Rogers, J. and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2022. Protecting a heterogeneous landscape supports avian diversity across seasons on a Mediterranean island. Journal of Ornithology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-021-01953-2
Kirschel, A. N. G., Moysi, M., Lukhele, S. M., Sebastianelli, M., Asfaw, T., Hadjioannou, L., Mortega, K. G., Monadjem, A., and Moyle, R. G. 2021. Taxonomic revision of the Red-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus pusillus (Dumont 1816) based on molecular and phenotypic analysis. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141:428-442. https://doi.org/10.25226/bboc.v141i4.2021.a6
Lukhele, S. M., Widdows, C., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2021. Nest provisioning and diet of nestling Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatus. African Journal of Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.12927
Papanikolas, N., Hadjikyriakou, T. G., Sebastianelli, M., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2021. Habitat selection and interspecific competition between Sylvia Warblers in Cyprus following the rapid expansion of a recent colonizer. Avian Conservation and Ecology 16:11. https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01937-160211
Patchett, R., Kirschel, A. N. G., Styles, P., Robins King, J., and Cresswell, W. 2021. Female song in the Cyprus Wheatear Oenanthe cypriaca. Journal of Ornithology 162: 1199-1204.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-021-01902-z
Hellicar, M. A., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2021. Grazing pressure and the interaction dynamics of the endemic Cyprus Warbler Sylvia melanothorax and its recently colonizing congener the Sardinian Warbler S. melanocephala. Bird Conservation International 31: 239-254. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270920000180
Sebastianelli, M., Blumstein, D. T., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2021. Higher pitched bird song towards the coast supports a role for selection in ocean noise avoidance. Bioacoustics
https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2021.1879680
Pallari, C.Th., Efstathiou, A., Moysi, M., Papanikolas, N., Christodoulou, V., Mazeris, A. Koliou, M. and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2021. Evidence of West Nile Virus seropositivity in wild birds on the island of Cyprus. Comparative Immunology, Microbiology, and Infectious Diseases 74: 101592.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cimid.2020.101592
Kirschel, A. N. G., Nwankwo, E. C., Pierce, D., Lukhele, S. M., Moysi, M., Ogolowa, B. O., Hayes, S. C., Monadjem, A., and Brelsford, A. 2020. CYP2J19 mediates carotenoid colour introgression across a natural avian hybrid zone. Molecular Ecology 29: 4970-4984. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15691
Sebastianelli, M., Savva, G., Moysi, M., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2021.Tape lures swell bycatch on a Mediterranean island harbouring illegal bird trapping. Biology Letters 16: 20200458.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0458
Kirschel, A. N. G., Zanti, Z., Harlow, Z. T., Vallejo, E. E., Cody, M. L., and Taylor, C. E. 2020. Females don’t always sing in response to male song, but when they do, they sing to males with higher pitched songs. Animal Behaviour 166: 129-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.06.024
Hadjikyriakou, T. G., Kassinis, N., Skarlatos, D., Charilaou, P., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2020. Breeding success of Eleonora’s falcon (Falco eleonorae) in Cyprus revisited using survey techniques for cliff-nesting species. Condor 122: duaa045. https://doi.org/10.1093/condor/duaa045
Hadjikyriakou, T. G., Nwankwo, E. C., Virani, M., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2020. Habitat availability influences migration speed, refuelling patterns and seasonal flyways of a fly-and-forage migrant. Movement Ecology 8:10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-0190-4
Kirschel, A. N. G., Nwankwo, E. C., Seal, N., and Grether, G. F. 2020. Time spent together, and time spent apart affect song, feather color and range overlap in tinkerbirds. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129: 439-458. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz191
Hadjikyriakou, T. G., Kassara, C., Rene de Roland, L-A., Giokas, S., Tsiopelas, N., Evangelidis, A, Thorstrom, R, and Kirschel, A.N.G. 2020. Phenology, variation in habitat use, and daily activity patterns of Eleonora’s falcon overwintering in Madagascar. Landscape Ecology 35:159-172. https://rdcu.be/cJJ6s
Hellicar, M.A., Honold, J. and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2019. Comparison of land cover and farming intensity based models for mapping High Nature Value farmland in Cyprus. Bird Study 66:317-328.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2019.1684875
Kirschel, A. N. G., Seddon, N., and Tobias, J. A. 2019. Range-wide spatial mapping reveals convergent character displacement of bird song. Proceedings of the Royal Society (London) Series B 286:20190443
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0443
Peyton, J., et al. 2019. Horizon scanning for invasive alien species with the potential to threaten biodiversity and human health on a Mediterranean island. Biological Invasions 6: 2107–2125.
Nwankwo, E. C., Mortega, K. G., Karageorgos, A., Ogolowa, B. O., Papagregoriou, G., Grether, G. F., Monadjem, A., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2019. Rampant introgressive hybridization in Pogoniulus tinkerbirds (Piciformes: Lybiidae) despite millions of years of divergence. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 127: 125-142. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz018
Kirschel, A. N. G., Nwankwo, E. C., and Gonzalez, J. C. T. 2018. Investigating the status of the enigmatic White-chested Tinkerbird Pogoniulus makawai using molecular analysis of the type specimen. Ibis 160: 673-680. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12597
Nwankwo, E. C., Pallari, C. T., Hadjioannou, L., Ioannou, A., Mulwa, R. K., & Kirschel, A. N. G. 2018. Rapid song divergence leads to discordance between genetic distance and phenotypic characters important in reproductive isolation. Ecology and Evolution; 8:716-731.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3673
Kassara, C., Gangoso, L., Mellone, U., Piasevoli, G., Hadjikyriakou, T., Tsiopelas, N., Giokas, S., López-López, P., Urios, V., Figuerola, J., Silva, R., Bouten, W., Kirschel, A. N. G., Virani, M., Fiedler, W. Berthold, P., and Gschweng, M. 2017. Current and future suitability of wintering grounds for a long-distance migratory raptor. Scientific Reports 7:8798. https://rdcu.be/cJJ7S
Clark, C. J.*, Kirschel, A. N. G.*, Hadjioannou, L., and Prum, R. O. 2016. Smithornis broadbills produce loud wing song by aerolastic flutter of primary wing feathers. Journal of Experimental Biology 219: 1069-1075. *Co-corresponding authors. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.131664
Hadjikyriakou, T. G., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2016. Video evidence confirms cannibalism in Eleonora’s Falcon. Journal of Raptor Research 50: 220-223. https://doi.org/10.3356/0892-1016-50.2.220
Smith, T. B., Harrigan, R. J., Kirschel, A. N. G., Buermann, W., Saatchi, S. Blumstein, D. T., de Kort, S. R., and Slabbekoorn, H. 2013. Predicting Bird Song from Space. Evolutionary Applications 6: 865-874.
https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12072
Grether, G. F., Anderson, C. N., Drury, J.P., Kirschel, A. N. G., Losin, N., Okamoto, K., and Peiman, K. 2013. The evolutionary consequences of interspecific aggression. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1289:48-68. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12082
Kirschel, A. N. G., Slabbekoorn, H., Blumstein, D. T., Cohen, R. E., De Kort, S. R., Buermann, W., and Smith, T. B. 2011. Testing alternative hypotheses for evolutionary diversification in an African songbird: Rainforest refugia versus ecological gradients. Evolution 65: 3162-3174.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01386.x
Blumstein D.T, Mennill, D. J., Clemins, P., Girod, L., Yao, K., Patricelli, G., Deppe, J. L., Krakauer, A. H., Clark, C., Cortopassi, K. A., Hanser, S. F., McCowan, B., Mantik Ali, A., and Kirschel, A. N. G. 2011. Acoustic monitoring in terrestrial environments: applications technological considerations, and prospectus. Journal of Applied Ecology 48: 758-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.01993.x
Kirschel, A. N. G., Cody, M. L., Harlow, Z. T., Promponas, V., Vallejo, E. E., and Taylor, C. E. 2011. Territorial dynamics of Mexican Antthrushes (Formicarius moniliger) revealed by individual recognition of their songs. Ibis 153: 255-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2011.01102.x
Collier, T. C., Kirschel, A. N. G., and Taylor, C. E. 2010. Acoustic localization of antbirds in a Mexican rainforest using a wireless sensor network. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America128:182-189. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3425729
Kirschel, A. N. G., Blumstein, D. T., and Smith, T. B. 2009. Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 8256-8261. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0810124106
Kirschel, A. N. G., Blumstein, D. T., Cohen, R. E., Buermann, W., Smith, T. B., and Slabbekoorn, H. 2009. Birdsong tuned to the environment: green hylia song varies with elevation, tree cover, and noise. Behavioral Ecology 20:1089-1095. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arp101