Reproductive success of house sparrows along an urban gradient

By W. J. Peach, K. Vincent, J. Fowler, Philip V. Grice. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Parasitology

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Citations in the corpus

• Urbanization, nestling growth and reproductive success in a moderately declining house sparrow population (2012, methodology): “…causes of house sparrow population declines have been studied in much greater detail in Britain than elsewhere (Crick et al. 2002, Hole et al. 2002, Peach et al. 2008, Shaw et al. 2008), therefore it is difficult to assess whether the dramatic British decline is a special case or rather represents…”
• Urbanization Is Associated with Divergence in Pace-of-Life in Great Tits (2017, background): “…urban and rural birds have also suggested shifts in breeding strategies: urban birds usually have earlier laying dates, smaller clutch sizes, lower reproductive success (e.g., Peach et al., 2008; review in Chamberlain et al., 2009), and higher adult survival rates (e.g., Rebolo-Ifran et al., 2015).”
• The breeding performance of raptors in urban landscapes: a review and meta-analysis (2017, background): “…found urban-nesting passerines to breed earlier, triggered by higher temperatures (a consequence of the urban heat island effect), year-round availability of human-provided food and artificial night-lights (e.g. Solonen 2001; Peach et al. 2008; Chamberlain et al. 2009; Kempenaers et al. 2010).”
• BirdTrends 2014: trends in numbers, breeding success and survival for UK breeding birds (2014, background): “Although only a two-year study, Peach et al. (2008) measured reproductive success in a declining House Sparrow population along an urbanisation gradient in Leicester and also found that a year in which reproductive success was too low to sustain the population was characterised by lower chick…”
• Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “Synurbic species not only exploit but often have become dependent on sources provided by humans (Shochat et al. 2006), e.g. the Feral Pigeon Columba livia, House Sparrow or European Starling Sturnus vulgaris can be termed to be worldwidely synurbic.”