Publications
Here you can find publications that are related to sparrows. Other publications can be found on the personal homepages of each researcher.
Tóth, Z., Bókony, V., Lendvai, Á.Z., Szabó, K., Pénzes, Z. & Liker, A. 2008. Effects of relatedness on social-foraging tactic use in house sparrows. Animal Behaviour, in press. [pdf]
Mónus F, Z Barta, 2008. The Effect of Within-Flock Spatial Position on the Use of Social Foraging Tactics in Free-Living Tree Sparrows. Ethology 114, 215-222. [pdf]
Lendvai, Á.Z., Liker, A. & Barta, Z. 2006. The effects of energy reserves and dominance on the use of social foraging strategies in the house sparrow. Animal Behaviour, 72, 747-752. [pdf]
Barta, Z., Liker, A. & Mónus, F. 2004. The effects of predation hazard on the use of social foraging tactics. Animal Behaviour 67: 301-308. [pdf]
Lendvai, Á.Z., Barta, Z., Liker, A. & Bókony, V. 2004: The effect of energy reserves on the social foraging: hungry sparrows scrounge more. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B., 271: 2467-2472. [pdf]
Liker, A. & Barta, Z. 2002. The effects of dominance on social foraging tactic use in house sparrows. Behaviour 139: 1061-1076. [pdf]
Lendvai, Á. Z., Loiseau, C., Sorci, G, Chastel, O. 2008. Early developmental conditions affect stress response in juvenile but not in adult house sparrows (Passer domesticus). General and Comparative Endocrinology, doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2008.10.004 [pdf]
Lendvai, Á.Z. & Chastel, O. 2008. Experimental mate-removal increases the stress response of female house sparrows: the effects of offspring value? Hormones and Behavior, 53(2), 395-401. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2007.11.011. [pdf]
Lendvai, Á.Z., Giraudeau, M. & Chastel, O. 2007. Reproduction and modulation of the stress response: an experimental test in the House sparrow. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B., 274: 391-397. [pdf]
Bókony, V., Liker, A., Lendvai, Á. Z. & Kulcsár, A. 2008. Risk-taking and survival in the house sparrow: are plumage ornaments costly? Ibis, 150,139-151. doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2007.00756.x. [pdf]
Bókony, V., Lendvai, Á. Z., & Liker, A. 2006. Multiple cues of status signalling: the role of wingbars in aggressive interactions in male house sparrows. Ethology, 112, 947-954. [pdf]
Liker, A. & Barta, Z. 2001. Male badge size predicts dominance against females in house sparrows. Condor 103: 151-157. [pdf]
Torda, G., A. Liker and Z. Barta 2004. Dominance hierarchy and status signalling in captive tree sparrow (Passer montanus) flocks. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 50, 35-44. [pdf]
Other:
Szabó, K., Szalmás, A., Liker, A. & Barta, Z. 2002. Effects of haematophagous mites on nestling house sparrows (Passer domesticus). Acta Parasitologica 47: 318-322.
Szabó, K., Szalmás, A., Liker, A. & Barta, Z. 2008. Adaptive host-abandonment of ectoparasites before fledging? Within-brood distribution of nest mites in house sparrow broods. Journal of Prasitology, 94 (5), 1038–1043.
Liker, A., Papp, Z., Bókony, V. & Lendvai, Á.Z. 2008. Lean birds in the city: body size and condition of house sparrows along the urbanization gradient. Journal of Animal Ecology 77 (4), 789-795 [pdf].
Last update on December 3, 2008.