Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence.

Kód výsledku v 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>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/60460709:41330/24:98804 RIV/00216208:11310/24:10483095

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence.

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence.

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10615 - Ornithology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Communications Biology

ISSN

2399-3642

e-ISSN

2399-3642

Svazek periodika

7

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

874

Kód UT WoS článku

001270590600007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85198921495