Urban bird declines and the fear of cats

By Andrew P. Beckerman, Mike Boots, Kevin J. Gaston. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology

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Citations in the corpus

• Home Range, Habitat Use, and Activity Patterns of Free-Roaming Domestic Cats (2011, background): “Supplemental feeding generally decreases home range size of mammals (Boutin 1990, Koganezawa and Imaki 1999).”
• Urbanization, nestling growth and reproductive success in a moderately declining house sparrow population (2012, background): “Moreover, increased predator density may reduce the breeding success of house sparrows via indirect, sublethal effects such as decreased foraging efficiency (Beckerman et al. 2007) and impaired reproductive capacity due to physiological stress (Boonstra et al.”
• Population impacts of free‐ranging domestic cats on mainland vertebrates (2017, background): “Using a bird population model including a direct effect of cat predation and an indirect effect of fear on fecundity, Beckerman et al. (2007) illustrated that fear effects can reduce bird abundance by 95% even with predation mortality below 1%.”
• Invasion, Competition, and Biodiversity Loss in Urban Ecosystems (2010, background): “It has therefore been argued that predation pressure in urban settings should be higher than or at least equal to that in wildlands (Haskell et al. 2001, Sorace 2002, Beckerman et al. 2007).”
• IMPACTS OF FREE-RANGING DOMESTIC CATS (FELIS CATUS) ON BIRDS IN THE UNITED STATES: A REVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH WITH CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS (2009, unknown): “Using a model combining cat predation on birds with the sub-lethal effect of stress caused by cat density on bird fecundity, Beckerman et al. (2007) showed that these sub-lethal effects of cats may be substantial for urban songbirds, potentially leading to population-level declines.”
• Antipredator strategies of house finches: are urban habitats safe spots from predators even when humans are around? (2009, background): “The direct and indirect risk of cat predation (Woods et al. 2003; Beckerman et al. 2007) and dog chases (Yalden and Yalden 1990; Lafferty 2001) can both have negative impacts on bird populations (e.g., Crooks and Soule 1999).”
• Reproductive success of house sparrows along an urban gradient (2008, background): “Such large and rapid losses of a familiar garden species have stimulated considerable speculation as to possible environmental causes of the decline (McCarthy, 2000; Summers-Smith, 2003; Beckerman, Boots & Gaston, 2007 ).”