NameBalbontín Arenas, Javier
DepartmentZoología
Knowledge areaZoología
Professional categoryProfesor Titular de Universidad
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Livin' on the edge: reducing infanticide risk by maintaining proximity to potentially less infanticidal males

Penteriani, Vincenzo; Kojola, Ilpo; Heikkinen, Samuli; Find'o, Slavomír; Skuban, Michaela; Fedorca, Ancuta; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Delgado, María del Mar (Elsevier, 2024)
Infanticide is a significant evolutionary force influencing carnivore behaviours, as it is one of the primary contributors ...
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La relación de heterófilos/linfocitos con las estrategias vitales en la golondrina común (Hirundo rustica)

Pinilla Rodríguez, Lorena; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Marzal Reynolds, Alfonso (2023)
La condición de estrés y la función inmune de los vertebrados pueden verse alteradas según la condición fisiológica de ...
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The influence of road networks on brown bear spatial distribution and habitat suitability in a human-modified landscape

González Bernardo, E.; Delgado, M. d. M.; Matos, D. G. G.; Zarzo Arias, A.; Morales González, A.; Ruiz Villar, H.; Skuban, M.; Maiorano, L.; Ciucci, P.; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Penteriani, V. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2023)
Roads are human infrastructure that heavily affect wildlife, often with marked impacts on carnivores, including brown bears ...
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Wing morphology covaries with migration distance in a highly aerial insectivorous songbird

Matyjasiak, Piotr; López Calderón, Cosme; Ambrosini, Roberto; Costanzo, Alessandra; Kiat, Josef; Romano, Andrea; Rubolini, Diego; Balbontín Arenas, Javier (Oxford University Press, 2022)
According to classical prediction of aerodynamic theory, birds and other powered fliers that migrate over long distances ...
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Out of Africa: Juvenile Dispersal of Black-Shouldered Kites in the Emerging European Population

Rivera, Domingo; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Pérez Gil, Sergio; Abad Gómez-Pantoja, José María; Negro, Juan José (MDPI, 2022)
Knowledge of animal dispersal patterns is of great importance for the conservation and maintenance of natural populations. ...
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The Mitogenome Relationships and Phylogeography of Barn Swallows (Hirundo rustica)

Lombardo, Gianluca; Rambaldi Migliore, Nicola; Colombo, Giulia; Capodiferro, Marco Rosario; Formenti, Giulio; Caprioli, Manuela; Moroni, Elisabetta; López Calderón, Cosme; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Torroni, Antonio (Oxford University Press, 2022)
The barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) poses a number of fascinating scientific questions, including the taxonomic status of ...
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The migration system of barn swallows hirundo rustica breeding in Southwestern Spain and wintering across West Africa

López Calderón, Cosme; Magallanes, Sergio; Marzal Reynolds, Alfonso; Balbontín Arenas, Javier (Sociedad Española de Ornitología, 2021)
Many populations of migratory bird species are rapidly declining. As a requisite for targeting effective conservation ...
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Interaction of Climate Change with Effects of Conspecific and Heterospecific Density on Reproduction

Møller, Anders Pape; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Dhondt, André A.; Adriaensen, Frank; Artemyev, Alexandr; Bańbura, Jerzy; Barba, Emilio; Biard, Clotilde; Blondel, Jacques; Lambrechts, Marcel M. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2020)
We studied the relationship between temperature and the coexistence of great titParus majorand blue titCyanistes caeruleus, ...
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Interaction of Climate Change with Effects of Conspecific and Heterospecific Density on Reproduction

Møller, Anders Pape; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Dhondt, André A.; Adriaensen, Frank; Artemyev, Alexandr; Bańbura, Jerzy; Barba, Emilio; Biard, Clotilde; Blondel, Jacques; Bouvier, Jean-Charles; Marcel M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020)
We studied the relationship between temperature and the coexistence of great tit Parus major and blue tit Cyanistes ...
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Rainfall at African wintering grounds predicts age-specific probability of haemosporidian infection in a migratory passerine bird

López Calderón, Cosme; Hobson, Keith A.; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Reviriego, María I.; Magallanes, Sergio; García-Longoria, Luz; Relinque, Carmen; De Lope, Florentino; Møller, Anders P.; Marzal, Alfonso (Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)
In migratory species breeding in temperate zones and wintering in tropical areas, the prevalence of blood parasites may ...
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Linking different worlds: migration ecology in two species of hirundines

López Calderón, Cosme; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Marzal Reynolds, Alfonso (2019)
El comportamiento migratorio constituye una de las adaptaciones más espectaculares de los seres vivos frente a los cambios ...
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Age-dependent carry-over effects in a long-distance migratory bird

López Calderón, Cosme; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Hobson, Keith A.; Møller, Anders Pape (Nature, 2019)
Migratory birds usually respond to climate change by modifying breeding and/or wintering areas, as well as by reproducing ...
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Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

Radchuk, Viktoriia; Reed, Thomas E.; Teplitsky, Céline; Pol, Martijn van de; Charmantier, Anne; Hassall, Christopher; Adamík, Peter; Adriaensen, Frank; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie (Nature Research, 2019)
Biological responses to climate change have been widely documented across taxa and regions, but it remains unclear whether ...
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Multiple components of environmental change drive populations of breeding waders in seminatural grasslands

Laursen, Karsten; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Thorup, Ole; Haaning Nielsen, Henrik; Asferg, Tommy; Møller, Anders Pape (Wiley Open Access, 2018)
Environments are rapidly changing due to climate change, land use, intensive agriculture, and the impact of hunting on ...
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Effects of Interspecific Coexistence on Laying Date and Clutch Size in Two Closely Related Species of Hole-nesting Birds

Møller, Anders Pape; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Dhondt, André A.; Remeš, Vladimir; Adriaensen, Frank; Biard, Clotilde; Camprodon, Jordi; Cichoń, Mariusz; Doligez, Blandine; Dubiec, Anna; Lambrechts, Marcel M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)
Coexistence between great tits Parus major and blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus, but also other hole-nesting taxa, constitutes ...
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Environmental conditions during winter predict age- and sex-specific differences in reproductive success of a trans-Saharan migratory bird

López Calderón, Cosme; Hobson, Keith A.; Marzal, Alfonso; Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Reviriego, Maribel I.; Magallanes, Sergio; García Longoria, Luz; Lope, Florentino de; Møller, Anders Pape (Nature Research, 2017)
Previous studies have linked winter habitat with subsequent breeding phenology and physical condition of migratory birds, ...
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Environmental conditions during early life accelerate the rate of senescence in a short-lived passerine bird

Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Møller, Anders P. (Ecological Society of America, 2015)
Environmental conditions experienced in early life may shape subsequent phenotypic traits including life history. We ...
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Assessing multivariate constraints to evolution across ten long-term avian studies

Teplitsky, Celine; Tarka, Maja; Møller, Anders P.; Nakagawa, Shinichi; Balbontín Arenas, Javier (Public Library of Science, 2014)
Background In a rapidly changing world, it is of fundamental importance to understand processes constraining or facilitating ...
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From local monitoring to a broad-scale viability assessment: a case study for the Bonelli’s Eagle in western Europe

Hernández Matías, Antonio; Real, Joan; Moleón, Marcos; Palma, Luis; Sánchez Zapata, Jose Antonio; Pradel, Roger; Carrete, Martina; Gil Sánchez, Jose María; Beja, Pedro; Balbontín Arenas, Javier (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
Population viability analysis (PVA) has become a basic tool of current conservation practice. However, if not accounted ...
PhD Thesis
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El águila perdicera en Andalucía ecología y dispersión juvenil.

Balbontín Arenas, Javier; Ferrer Baena, Miguel Ángel (2004)