Garden bird feeding predicts the structure of urban avian assemblages

By Richard A. Fuller, Ph. Warren, P. Armsworth, O. Barbosa, Kevin J. Gaston. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Garden Bird Feeding: Insights and Prospects from a North-South Comparison of This Global Urban Phenomenon (2017, background): “Target countries in the Northern Hemisphere include Belgium, Canada, Germany, Sweden, the UK, and the US that already have well-established banding programs (Balmer et al., 2008).”
Nestboxes and immigration drive the growth of an urban Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus population (2014, background): “Human habitation offers a variety of intentional or incidental subsidies to wildlife, such as provision of supplementary foods (Fuller et al. 2008), provision of protective denning or nesting structures, and the removal of predators (Evans et al.”
Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “It is generally accepted that increased food abundance and predictability is a major driver of increased avian biomass in urban areas (Fuller et al. 2008).”
Birds in Urban Ecosystems: Population Dynamics, Community Structure, Biodiversity, and Conservation (2015, background): “Fuller et al. (2008) also found a positive correlation between urban bird feeding stations and bird abundance in Sheffield, UK.”
Nocturnal ranging behaviour of urban hedgehogs, Erinaceus europaeus, in relation to risk and reward (2010, background): “…& Frost 1999), an increase in the availability of food or other resources supplied deliberately or accidentally by humans (Baker et al. 2000; Fuller et al. 2008; Jones & Reynolds 2008; Robb et al. 2008a, b; Davies et al. 2009) or a reduction in levels of human persecution (Harris & Smith…”
Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidies from humans. (2013, background): “…an increase of food availability (through PAFS) does not always increase species richness: when interference competition at PAFS is light, because it occurs in relatively low trophic levels (e.g. small passerines), richness remains stable and only population densities increase (Fuller et al. 2008).”
Roles of Raptors in a Changing World: From Flagships to Providers of Key Ecosystem Services (2016, background): “Species diversity is lower in animal communities inhabiting urban landscapes, although human habitation offers a variety of intentional or incidental subsidies to wildlife, such as provision of supplementary foods (Fuller et al., 2008); and some well-adapted species opportunistically exploit such re”
Effects of drought on avian community structure (2009, background): “Such birds may be able to maintain high abundance and richness in times of environmental stress thanks to resource subsidies afforded by humans, including feeding (Lepczyk et al., 2004; Fuller et al., 2008), provision of habitat, and irrigation (Brotons et al.”
Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation. (2011, background): “Feeding practices Changes in bird species composition Bird feeding in urban gardens affects assemblages of urban birds (Fuller et al., 2008)”
An appetite for connection: why we need to understand the effect and value of feeding wild birds (2011, background): “Indeed, Fuller et al. (2008) has recently demonstrated that garden bird the U.K. greatly enhance the abundance of local feeder-using It is also important to take a broader perspective, beyond the feeding table.”
Impact of Urbanization on Birds (2018, background): “Supplementary feeding of birds is very common in western countries but more or less absent in eastern countries (Fuller et al. 2008).”
Escape behaviour of birds provides evidence of predation being involved in urbanization (2012, background): “For example, urban habitats provide significant advantages in terms of benign microclimate (e.g. Lowry1998), longer growing seasons (White et al. 2002) and higher food abundance (e.g. Fuller et al. 2008).”
Enhancing urban biodiversity and its influence on city-dwellers: An experiment (2014, background): “better conditions for urban biodiversity (e.g., Gaston et al., 2005; Fuller et al., 2008; Fontana et al., 2011).”