A. Charmantier

Cities as parasitic amplifiers? Malaria prevalence and diversity in great tits along an urbanization gradient

This study examines malaria prevalence and diversity in great tits across an urbanization gradient, finding higher prevalence in adults and urban nestlings, and increased parasite diversity in natural urban parks.

A global meta-analysis reveals higher variation in breeding phenology in urban birds than in their non-urban neighbours

This study finds urban bird populations show higher phenological variation in laying dates compared to non-urban populations, likely due to environmental heterogeneity.

Identifying drivers of spatio-temporal variation in survival in four blue tit populations

This study examines survival variation in four blue tit populations, finding synchronous survival fluctuations but no climate correlation, and a decline in two populations.

Is earlier reproduction associated with higher or lower survival? Antagonistic results between individual and population scales in the blue tit

This study examines the relationship between breeding phenology and adult survival in blue tits, finding conflicting effects at population and individual scales.

The great tit HapMap project: a continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird

This study analyzes genomic variation across 647 great tit individuals to understand how environmental and demographic factors shape genetic diversity and differentiation.

Bird populations most exposed to climate change are less responsive to climatic variation

The paper shows that bird populations most exposed to climate change show less phenological response to temperature variation.

Demographic history and genomics of local adaptation in blue tit populations

The paper examines demographic history and local adaptation in blue tit populations, finding weak differentiation between habitat types and stronger differentiation between insular and mainland populations.

Parasite intensity is driven by temperature in a wild bird

This study shows that temperature strongly influences parasite load in Corsican blue tits, with higher temperatures during the nestling stage and spring linked to increased parasite intensity.

On the importance of time scales when studying adaptive evolution

The paper discusses challenges in analyzing adaptive evolution across different time scales using long-term field studies and genomic data, focusing on great tit bill length as a case study.