Factors affecting the distribution of small mammals in an urban area

By P. J. Baker, Rachel J. Ansell, Phillippa A. A. Dodds, Claire Webber, S. Harris. 2003

159 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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In Ecology

1. Peter P. Marra
2. S. Loss
3. R. Mcdonald
4. António Mira
5. Francisco Moreira
6. M. McCarthy
7. S. Harris
8. R. Ree

In Genetics

1. Peter P. Marra
2. S. Loss
3. Francisco Moreira
4. S. Harris
5. J. Quinn
6. Philippe Clergeau
7. E. Shochat

Citations in the corpus

• Predation of wildlife by domestic cats Felis catus in Great Britain (2003, background): “Baker et al. (2003) recorded a negative relationship between numbers of wood mice and the numbers of cats visiting suburban gardens.”
• Population impacts of free‐ranging domestic cats on mainland vertebrates (2017, background): “In the UK, density of the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) (Baker et al. 2003) and abundance of several songbird species (Sims et al.”
• Inferring persistence of indigenous mammals in response to urbanisation (2005, background): “Predation pressure is a major driver on dynamics of small mammal populations and the abundance of the wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus, in residential gardens in Bristol (UK) was negatively correlated with the abundance of domestic cats, Felis catus (Baker et al., 2003).”
• Influence of landscape characteristics on carnivore diversity and abundance in Mediterranean farmland (2009, background): “Cats can reach high densities independently of prey abundance because humans feed them, and so their subsidised populations may represent a significant source of mortality for passerines and small mammals (Baker et al., 2003, 2008; Sims et al., 2008).”
• The breeding performance of raptors in urban landscapes: a review and meta-analysis (2017, background): “Indeed, small mammal abundance has been shown to differ between environments (Solonen and Ursin 2008; Solonen 2014) and the abundance of some native small mammal species has been shown to be negatively affected by urbanisation, in part due to predation pressure from Domestic Cats (Felis catus) and h”
• Small urban woodlands as biodiversity conservation hot-spot: a multi-taxon approach (2008, background): “Studies on small mammals are less common but have revealed results similar to our own, with, for example, five species found in Bristol (Baker et al. 2003) and six species in Manchester (Stoddart 1980).”
• The ecology of urban areas and their functions for species diversity (2011, unknown): “As demonstrated on wood mice, the domestic gardens may further reduce the deleterious effects of fragmentation (Baker et al. 2003).”