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Raivo Mänd is affiliated with the University of Tartu in Estonia. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Parasitology, Genetics, and Ecological Modeling. Their work frequently addresses topics related to Avian ecology and behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Bird parasitology and diseases, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Research Data Management Practices, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Genetic diversity and population structure.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications in recognized venues, including the Journal of Animal Ecology, Oecologia, Molecular Ecology Resources, Oikos, and the Journal of Biogeography.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Raivo Mänd include:

  • Connecting the data landscape of long-term ecological studies: The SPI-Birds data hub, 2020, Journal of Animal Ecology
  • The roles of temperature, nest predators and information parasites for geographical variation in egg covering behaviour of tits (Paridae), 2020, Journal of Biogeography
  • Experimental study of the effect of preen oil against feather bacteria in passerine birds, 2020, Oecologia
  • The great tit HapMap project: A continental-scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird, 2024, Molecular Ecology Resources
  • Interaction of climate change with effects of conspecific and heterospecific density on reproduction, 2020, Oikos

Raivo Mänd collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Frank Adriaensen, Tapio Eeva, Blandine Doligez, Emilio Barba, and Mariusz Cichoń.

Best Publications

  • The design of artificial nestboxes for the study of secondary hole-nesting birds: a review of methodological inconsistencies and potential biases

    Marcel M. Lambrechts;Frank Adriaensen;Daniel R. Ardia;Alexandr V. Artemyev

  • Evolutionary signals of selection on cognition from the great tit genome and methylome

    Veronika N. Laine;Toni I. Gossmann;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Kyle M. Schachtschneider;Colin J. Garroway

  • Evidence of evolutionary homogenization of bird communities in urban environments across Europe

    Federico Morelli;Yanina Benedetti;Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo;Jukka Jokimäki

  • Experimental evidence of reciprocal altruism in the pied flycatcher

    Indrikis Krams;Tatjana Krama;Kristine Igaune;Raivo Mänd

  • High urban population density of birds reflects their timing of urbanization.

    Anders Pape Møller;Mario Diaz;Einar Flensted-Jensen;Tomas Grim

  • Providing nest boxes for hole-nesting birds – Does habitat matter?

    Raivo Mänd;Vallo Tilgar;Asko Lõhmus;Agu Leivits

  • Climate change, breeding date and nestling diet: how temperature differentially affects seasonal changes in pied flycatcher diet depending on habitat variation

    Claudia Burger;Eugen Belskii;Tapio Eeva;Toni Laaksonen

  • Sexual selection for white tail spots in the barn swallow in relation to habitat choice by feather lice.

    Mati Kose;Raivo Mänd;Anders Pape Møller

  • Hematological Health State Indices Predict Local Survival in a Small Passerine Bird, the Great Tit (Parus major)

    Priit Kilgas;Vallo Tilgar;Raivo Mänd

  • Low Reproductive Success of Great Tits in the Preferred Habitat: A Role of Food Availability

    Marko Mägi;Raivo Mänd;Heleri Tamm;Elo Sisask

  • Brominated flame retardants and organochlorines in the European environment using great tit eggs as a biomonitoring tool

    Evi Van den Steen;Rianne Pinxten;Veerle L.B. Jaspers;Adrian Covaci

  • Bumblebees in the agricultural landscape of Estonia

    M Mänd;R Mänd;I.H Williams

  • Predation selects for low resting metabolic rate and consistent individual differences in anti-predator behavior in a beetle

    Indrikis Krams;Indrikis Krams;Inese Kivleniece;Aare Kuusik;Tatjana Krama

  • Calcium shortage as a constraint on reproduction in great tits Parus major: a field experiment

    Vallo Tilgar;Raivo Mänd;Marko Mägi

  • Phenological sensitivity to climate change is higher in resident than in migrant bird populations among European cavity breeders.

    Jelmer M. Samplonius;Lenka Bartošová;Malcolm D. Burgess;Malcolm D. Burgess;Andrey V. Bushuev

  • Hematological parameters in brood-rearing great tits in relation to habitat, multiple breeding and sex.

    Priit Kilgas;Raivo Mänd;Marko Mägi;Vallo Tilgar

  • Effect of calcium availability and habitat quality on reproduction in Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca and Great Tit Parus major

    V. Tilgar;R. Mänd;A. Leivits

  • Urbanized birds have superior establishment success in novel environments

    Anders Pape Møller;Mario Díaz;Einar Flensted-Jensen;Tomas Grim

  • Calcium supplementation of breeding birds: directions for future research

    S. James Reynolds;Raivo Mänd;Vallo Tilgar

  • Calcium, snails, and birds: a case study

    Raivo Mänd;Vallo Tilgar;Agu Leivits

  • Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick-borne bacterial pathogen

    Ana Cláudia Norte;Ana Cláudia Norte;Gabriele Margos;Noémie S. Becker;Jaime Albino Ramos

Frequent Co-Authors

Tapio Eeva
Tapio Eeva University of Turku
Anders Pape Møller
Anders Pape Møller University of Paris-Saclay
Marcel E. Visser
Marcel E. Visser University of Groningen
János Török
János Török Eötvös Loránd University
Indrikis Krams
Indrikis Krams University of Latvia
Blandine Doligez
Blandine Doligez Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Markku Orell
Markku Orell University of Oulu
Tore Slagsvold
Tore Slagsvold University of Oslo
Toni Laaksonen
Toni Laaksonen University of Turku
Frank Adriaensen
Frank Adriaensen University of Antwerp

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