Escape behaviour of birds in urban parks and cemeteries across Europe: Evidence of behavioural adaptation to human activity.

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F18%3A76933" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/18:76933 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11310/18:10390400
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.118" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.118</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.118" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.03.118</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Escape behaviour of birds in urban parks and cemeteries across Europe: Evidence of behavioural adaptation to human activity.
Original language description
Urban environments are very heterogeneous, and birds living in the proximity of humans have to adapt to local conditions, e.g. by changing their behavioural response to potential predators. In this study, we tested whether the escape distance of birds (measured as flight initiation distance: FID) differed between parks and cemeteries, areas characterized by different microhabitat conditions and human conduct, that are determinants of animal behaviour at large spatial scales. While escape behaviour of park populations of birds was often examined, cemetery populations have not been studied to the same extent and a large-scale comparison is still missing. Overall, we collected 2139 FID estimates for 44 bird species recorded in 79 parks and 90 cemeteries in four European countries: Czech Republic, France, Italy and Poland. Mixed model procedure was applied to study escape behaviour in relation to type of area ( park or cemetery), environmental characteristics (area size, coverage by trees, shrubs, gra
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-16738S" target="_blank" >GA18-16738S: Effects of urbanization on multilevel avian diversity: linking bird community metrics to pollution level, vegetation and building density</a><br>
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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