Abstract Background Nesting in large aggregations provides several important advantages for colonially breeding birds.However, it also imposes certain costs, associated with facilitated pathogen transmission and social stress.The cost-benefit ratio is not similar for all the birds in a colony and it might be mediated by nest density.To investigate
Extensive monitoring of Italian forests: integration of the National Forest Inventory with the European Network of Level I.Forest monitoring is important for enhancing our knowledge on such ecosystems and their changes in order to enable actions helpful for their protection.At the European level, several monitoring programmes are carried out at pre
Background: There is a lack of evidence-based app guidance for parents of children with crying, sleeping, and feeding problems who are often highly burdened and not likely to seek professional help.A new psychoeducational app for parents providing scientifically sound information via text and videos, a diary function, selfcare strategies, a chat fo
This study examines auroral colour camera data from the Canadian Dense Array Imaging SYstem (DAISY).The Dense Array consists of three imagers with different narrow (compared to all-sky view) field-of-view optics.The main scientific motivation arises from an earlier study by Knudsen et al.(2001) who used All-Sky Imager (ASI) combined with even earli