Arabian babblers in the Arava desert (IMAGE)
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A new study led by Prof. Lee Koren, from the Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, explores the profound effects of habitat disturbance on the Arabian babbler, a social bird species known for its cooperative breeding.
The study, recently published in the scientific journal Ecology Letters, is the first to combine the effects of habitat on both individual fitness and sociality. The study was based on a long-term dataset of an Arabian babbler population monitored since 1971 at the Sheizaf Nature Reserve located in the Arava desert of southern Israel.
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