Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence.
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F24%3A00587888" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/24:00587888 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41330/24:98804 RIV/00216208:11310/24:10483095
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06387-z" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06387-z</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06387-z" target="_blank" >10.1038/s42003-024-06387-z</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence.
Original language description
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and respective shutdowns dramatically altered human activities, potentially changing human pressures on urban-dwelling animals. Here, we use such COVID-19-induced variation in human presence to evaluate, across multiple temporal scales, how urban birds from five countries changed their tolerance towards humans, measured as escape distance. We collected 6369 escape responses for 147 species and found that human numbers in parks at a given hour, day, week or year (before and during shutdowns) had a little effect on birds' escape distances. All effects centered around zero, except for the actual human numbers during escape trial (hourly scale) that correlated negatively, albeit weakly, with escape distance. The results were similar across countries and most species. Our results highlight the resilience of birds to changes in human numbers on multiple temporal scales, the complexities of linking animal fear responses to human behavior, and the challenge of quantifying both simultaneously in situ.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
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
10615 - Ornithology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Communications Biology
ISSN
2399-3642
e-ISSN
2399-3642
Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
874
UT code for WoS article
001270590600007
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85198921495