Τμήμα Βιολογικών Επιστημών / Department of Biological Sciences: Recent submissions
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How grazing and other disturbance factors influence biodiversity in Cyprus, with a focus on breeding bird communities
(2019)Grazing and browsing by sheep and goats has been an important anthropogenic influence on ecosystems in the Mediterranean region for centuries. This influence has changed significantly in recent decades, with a general shift ...
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Histone Modifications as an Intersection Between Diet and Longevity
(2019)Histone modifications are key epigenetic regulators that control chromatin structure and gene transcription, thereby impacting on various important cellular phenotypes. Over the past decade, a growing number of studies ...
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Comparison of land cover and farming intensity-based models for mapping High Nature Value farmland in Cyprus
(2019)Capsule: Breeding bird survey data were used to compare biodiversity at sites defined as High Nature Value farmland (HNVf) under two different mapping models.Aims: To examine whether farmland classified as HNVf was important ...
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Females don’t always sing in response to male song, but when they do, they sing to males with higher pitched songs
(2019)The long-held view that bird song is exclusively a male trait has been challenged recently by a number of studies and reviews highlighting the prevalence of female song. In spite of that, there remains a lack of knowledge ...
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Modelling the role of alien species and fisheries in an Eastern Mediterranean insular shelf ecosystem
(2019)We developed a trophic mass-balance model to describe the structure and functioning of the insular shelf ecosystem of the Republic of Cyprus and assess the impact of fishing and alien species during the mid-2010s. A total ...
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Investigation of the status of the enigmatic White-chested Tinkerbird Pogoniulus makawai using molecular analysis of the type specimen
(2018)Following the discovery of a uniquely plumaged Pogoniulus tinkerbird in Cryptosepalum forest in northwest Zambia in 1964 and its subsequent description in 1965 as a distinct species, White-chested Tinkerbird Pogoniulus ...
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Listening in the Field: Recording the Science of Birdsong. Inside Technology by Joeri Bruyninckx
(2019)
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Genetic evidence against monophyly of Oniscidea implies a need to revise scenarios for the origin of terrestrial isopods
(2019)Among the few crustacean taxa that managed to inhabit terrestrial environments, Oniscidea includes the most successful colonizers in terms of species richness and abundance. However, neither morphological traits nor molecular ...
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Rapid song divergence leads to discordance between genetic distance and phenotypic characters important in reproductive isolation
(2018)The criteria for species delimitation in birds have long been debated, and several recent studies have proposed new methods for such delimitation. On one side, there is a large consensus of investigators who believe that ...
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Rampant introgressive hybridization in Pogoniulus tinkerbirds (Piciformes: Lybiidae) despite millions of years of divergence
(2019)Abstract. Incomplete reproductive isolation between related species of birds at contact zones is increasingly being documented. Such hybridization typically oc
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Horizon scanning for invasive alien species with the potential to threaten biodiversity and human health on a Mediterranean island
(2019)Invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the major drivers of change that can negatively affect biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services and human health
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Range-wide spatial mapping reveals convergent character displacement of bird song
(2019)A long-held view in evolutionary biology is that character displacement generates divergent phenotypes in closely related coexisting species to avoid the costs of hybridization or ecological competition, whereas an alternative ...
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Are terrestrial isopods able to use stridulation and vibrational communication as forms of intra and interspecific signaling and defense strategies as insects do? A preliminary study in Armadillo officinalis
(2019)The capability of producing sounds and vibrations is well known in insects and is thought to be a form of intra- and interspecific communication. Sounds and vibrations are used and modulated for several aims such as ...
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Response of the temperate scleractinian coral Cladocora caespitosa to high temperature and long-term nutrient enrichment
(2019)Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment and increased seawater temperatures are responsible for coral reef decline. In particular, they disrupt the relationship between corals and their dinoflagellate symbionts (bleaching). ...
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Terrestrial isopods as bioindicators for environmental monitoring in olive groves and natural ecosystems
(2019)Terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) are an important component of biodiversity as they constitute useful bioindicators for monitoring environmental quality in a variety of natural and agricultural ecosystems. ...
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Genetic Data Suggest Multiple Introductions of the Lionfish (Pterois miles) into the Mediterranean Sea
(2019)Widespread reports over the last six years confirm the establishment of lionfish (Pterois miles) populations in the eastern Mediterranean. Accumulated knowledge on lionfish invasions in the western Atlantic Ocean has shown ...
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Susceptibility of Cypriot Tuta absoluta populations to four targeted insecticides and control failure likelihood
(2019)Tuta absoluta, known as the South American tomato pinworm, is one of the most disastrous pests of tomato cultivations, presently menacing tomato cultivations worldwide. In 2006, T. absoluta invaded Spain from South America. ...
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Biogeography and Biodiversity of the Aegean. In honour of Prof. Moysis Mylonas
(Broken Hill Publishers, 2018)
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Insights into how predator diversity, population density and habitat type may affect defensive behaviour in a Mediterranean lizard
(2019)Various factors may alter anti-predatory responses among conspecifics. Here we assess some of these factors using three populations of a Mediterranean lizard (Acanthodactylus schreiberi) in Cyprus that differ in their ...