Fruits & Body Condition
Fieldwork for research on the effects of local fruit abundance on frugivore diet and body condition (2019)
Fieldwork for research on the effects of local fruit abundance on frugivore diet and body condition (2019)
Fieldwork conducted in forest patches of the Guadalquivir Valley (south Spain) where we quantified fruit abundance along belt transects and captured Sardinian warblers (Sylvia melanocephala) through mist-netting to measure their body condition and characterize their diet.
Mist net placed in Mediterranean forest
Mist net placed in Mediterranean forest
Sardinian warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) in mist net
Sardinian warbler (Sylvia melanocephala) in mist net
Male Sardinian warbler
Female Sardinian warbler
Forest understory
Transect to quantify fruit abundance
Wild olives (Olea europaea var. sylvestris)
Myrtle fruits (Myrtus communis) in transect
Lentisc fruits (Pistacia lentiscus)
Nearly depleted lentisc fruits (Pistacia lentiscus)
Lentisc seed dropped by a captured warbler
Wild-olive seed dropped by a captured warbler