| descriptions of two new species of feather mites (acarina: psoroptidia: pteronyssidae) from ivory coast. | two new feather mite species of the family pteronyssidae oudemans, 1941 collected from birds captured in ivory coast are described: pteronyssoides cyanomitrae n. sp. from cyanomitra obscura (jardine) (passeriformes: nectariniidae) and conomerus pygmaeus n. sp. from hylia prasina (cassin) (passeriformes: macrosphenidae). pteronyssoides cyanomitrae n. sp. belongs to the nectariniae species group and differs from the closest species, p. garioui gaud & mouchet, 1959, in having, in males, the adanal ... | 2017 | 29210018 |
| matrix intensification affects body and physiological condition of tropical forest-dependent passerines. | matrix land-use intensification is a relatively recent and novel landscape change that can have important influences on the biota within adjacent habitat patches. while there are immediate local changes that it brings about, the influences on individual animals occupying adjacent habitats may be less evident initially. high-intensity land use could induce chronic stress in individuals in nearby remnants, leading ultimately to population declines. we investigated how physiological indicators and ... | 2015 | 26107179 |
| molecular evolution in space and through time: mtdna phylogeography of the olive sunbird (nectarinia olivacea/obscura) throughout continental africa. | this study constitutes the first investigation of the phylogeographic structure of a forest bird distributed throughout the montane and lowland forest biomes of africa. the key objective was to investigate the importance of pleistocene climatic cycles on avian diversification across africa. the olive sunbird is a relatively large polytypic sunbird widely distributed throughout evergreen, montane and coastal forests in africa. recently, it was split into two species, the eastern olive sunbird (ne ... | 2004 | 15324839 |