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6980
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5324
National Ranking
173

Overview

Diego Gil is a researcher affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their work primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular concentration in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main subfields of their study include Ecology, Developmental Biology, Parasitology, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Gil's research also covers a range of related topics with notable publication counts in Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior, Plant and animal studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Marine animal studies overview, and Bird parasitology and diseases.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gil include:

  • Lorenzo Pérez-Rodríguez (13 coauthored works)
  • Jaime Muriel (8 coauthored works)
  • Iraida Redondo (6 coauthored works)
  • Raquel Monclús (6 coauthored works)
  • Renata Duarte Alquezar (4 coauthored works)

Diego Gil has published research in various venues, with repeated contributions to Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Oecologia, Ardeola, Biology Letters, and DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)).

Key recent publications by Gil include:

  • "Physiological stress does not increase with urbanization in European blackbirds: Evidence from hormonal, immunological and cellular indicators" (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Poor performance of acoustic indices as proxies for bird diversity in a fragmented Amazonian landscape" (2023) in Ecological Informatics
  • "Avian biotic homogenization driven by airport-affected environments" (2020) in Urban Ecosystems
  • "Lack of consistent responses to aircraft noise in dawn song timing of bird populations near tropical airports" (2020) in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • "Snake-like calls in breeding tits" (2021) in Current Zoology

Best Publications

  • The honesty of bird song: multiple constraints for multiple traits

    Diego Gil;Manfred Gahr

  • Male attractiveness and differential testosterone investment in zebra finch eggs.

    Diego Gil;Jeff Graves;Neil Hazon;Alan Wells

  • Rapid spread of diseases in Caribbean coral reefs

    Thomas J. Goreau;James Cervino;Maya Goreau;Raymond Hayes

  • Chapter 7 Hormones in Avian Eggs: Physiology, Ecology and Behavior

    Diego Gil

  • Experimental evidence for real-time song frequency shift in response to urban noise in a passerine bird

    Eira Bermúdez-Cuamatzin;Alejandro A. Ríos-Chelén;Diego Gil;Constantino Macías Garcia

  • Female canaries produce eggs with greater amounts of testosterone when exposed to preferred male song.

    Diego Gil;Gérard Leboucher;André Lacroix;Roger Cue

  • Birds living near airports advance their dawn chorus and reduce overlap with aircraft noise

    Diego Gil;Mariam Honarmand;Javier Pascual;Eneider Pérez-Mena

  • Avian Urban Ecology

    Diego Gil;Henrik Brumm

  • Song characteristics are age dependent in the willow warbler, Phylloscopus trochilus

    Diego Gil;James L.S. Cobb;Peter J.B. Slater

  • Maternal developmental stress reduces reproductive success of female offspring in zebra finches

    Marc Naguib;Andrea Nemitz;Diego Gil

  • Transgenerational effects on body size caused by early developmental stress in zebra finches.

    Marc Naguib;Diego Gil

  • Strategies of song adaptation to urban noise in the house finch: syllable pitch plasticity or differential syllable use?

    Eira Bermûdez-Cuamatzin;Alejandro Ariel Rios-Chelén;Diego Gil;Constantino Macfas Garcia

  • Nestling immunocompetence and testosterone covary with brood size in a songbird.

    Marc Naguib;Katharina Riebel;Alfonso Marzal;Diego Gil

  • Early condition, song learning, and the volume of song brain nuclei in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata).

    Diego Gil;Marc Naguib;Katharina Riebel;Alison Rutstein

  • Negative effects of elevated testosterone on female fecundity in zebra finches.

    Joanna Rutkowska;Mariusz Cichoń;Marisa Puerta;Diego Gil

  • Correlated evolution of male and female testosterone profiles in birds and its consequences

    Anders Møller;László Z. Garamszegi;Diego Gil;S. Hurtrez-Boussès;S. Hurtrez-Boussès

  • SONG ORGANISATION AND SINGING PATTERNS OF THE WILLOW WARBLER, PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS

    Peter J.B. Slater;Diego Gil

  • The learning advantage: bird species that learn their song show a tighter adjustment of song to noisy environments than those that do not learn

    Alejandro Ariel Ríos-Chelén;C Salaberria;I Barbosa;C Macías Garcia

  • Food availability affects the maternal transfer of androgens and antibodies into eggs of a colonial seabird.

    J. Gasparini;T. Boulinier;V.A. Gill;V.A. Gill;D. Gil

  • Seasonal patterns of singing in the willow warbler: evidence against the fertility announcement hypothesis.

    Diego Gil;Jeff A. Graves;Peter J.B. Slater

  • Effects of temperature and nest heat exposure on nestling growth, dehydration and survival in a Mediterranean hole‐nesting passerine

    Concepción Salaberria;Concepción Salaberria;Patricia Celis;Isabel López-Rull;Diego Gil

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Marc Naguib
Marc Naguib Wageningen University & Research
Jeff A. Graves
Jeff A. Graves University of St Andrews
Nicola Saino
Nicola Saino University of Milan
Claire N. Spottiswoode
Claire N. Spottiswoode University of Cape Town
László Zsolt Garamszegi
László Zsolt Garamszegi Centre for Ecological Research
Alfonso Marzal
Alfonso Marzal University of Extremadura
Katharina Riebel
Katharina Riebel Leiden University
Jason D. Weckstein
Jason D. Weckstein Drexel University
Peter F. Surai
Peter F. Surai Feed Food Ltd

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