Urbanization affects neophilia and risk-taking at bird-feeders

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F16%3A71127" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/16:71127 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28575" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28575</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28575" target="_blank" >10.1038/srep28575</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Urbanization affects neophilia and risk-taking at bird-feeders
Original language description
Urban environments cover vast areas with a high density of humans and their dogs and cats causing problems for exploitation of new resources by wild animals. Such resources facilitate colonization by individuals with a high level of neophilia predicting that urban animals should show more neophilia than rural conspecifics. We provided bird-feeders across urban environments in 14 Polish cities and matched nearby rural habitats, testing whether the presence of a novel item (a brightly coloured green object made out of gum with a tuft of hair) differentially delayed arrival at feeders in rural compared to urban habitats. The presence of a novel object reduced the number of great tits Parus major, but also the total number of all species of birds although differentially so in urban compared to rural areas. That was the case independent of the potentially confounding effects of temperature, population density of birds, and the abundance of cats, dogs and pedestrians. The number of great tits and the total
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EH - Ecology - communities
OECD FORD branch
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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