Miguel Hernández González

Bioacoustics as a Measure of Population Size and Breeding Success of European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

13.08.2025 17:50 — 👍 31    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 3

Meta-analytical evidence for the endocrine-disrupting properties of mercury exposure in wild birds Mercury (Hg) contamination represents a major threat to biodiversity. To date, despite endocrine disruption being accepted as one of the main toxicolo…

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27.06.2025 12:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We provide a series of guidelines for future studies, highlighting current limitations and the importance of quantifying multiple hormones simultaneously in both sexes, during different reproductive stages while using the same biological matrix for both Hg and hormones

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However, we identified hormone-specific effects of Hg, including a significant negative association with thyroxine, and a significant positive association with triiodothyronine
Non-significant negative effects on baseline corticosterone and prolactin were also suggested

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We did not find any evidence of direct cytotoxicity on certain endocrine glands and/or of disruption of common molecular pathways associated with hormone chemical structure

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The first paper of my PhD is now out in STOTEN
We carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the endocrine-disrupting properties of Hg exposure in wild birds, using hormone concentrations as a proxy for endocrine status

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Incredible experience last month, sampling the magnificent frigatebird colony of Saint Giles Island (Tobago) for the first time ever to gather information about how latitudinal differences in environmental stressors might be driving disease outbreaks

27.05.2025 06:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Title: Bioacoustics as a tool to monitor european storm petrels. A hand holds an AudioMoth against a background of the Mousa broch and a cartoon storm petrel. The BTO and RSPB logos are on the slide and the author list headed by the presenter: Sophie Bennett

1/6 Monitoring some #seabird species using observer-based methods is difficult, this can lead to infrequent data collection, or none at all

Little data on populations= limited ability to understand how threats may impact these species

#BOU2025

02.04.2025 11:02 — 👍 72    🔁 29    💬 3    📌 5

I had a great time contributing to the surveys of great skuas in Shetland. It is really sad to see the grim conclusions of the resulting study...

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