Avian assemblage structure and domestic cat densities in urban environments

By Victoria Sims, K. Evans, Stuart E. Newson, J. Tratalos, Kevin J. Gaston. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics

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In Ecology

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Citations in the corpus

• Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “Corvids are often abundant in cities, but despite their high numbers, correlative studies based on common bird census data in Britain failed to find negative relationships either between the densities of these nest predators and their preys and avian densities (Evans et al. 2009), or species richnes”
• Escape behaviour of birds provides evidence of predation being involved in urbanization (2012, background): “2001; Sorace 2002), and urban densities of predators are higher than rural densities for corvids (Richner 1989; Jerzak 2001; Antonov &Atanasova 2003), cats, Felis catus (Lepczyk et al. 2003; Gaston et al. 2005; Sims et al. 2008) and generalist avian predators (Sorace & Gustin 2009).”
• Population impacts of free‐ranging domestic cats on mainland vertebrates (2017, background): “2003) and abundance of several songbird species (Sims et al. 2008) were inversely related to cat abundance and density, respectively.”
• Urbanization and the Predation Paradox: The Role of Trophic Dynamics in Structuring Vertebrate Communities (2012, background): “These species are closely associated with human development and increase in abundance with human density (Sims et al. 2008).”
• Invasion, Competition, and Biodiversity Loss in Urban Ecosystems (2010, background): “A recent study on cat and bird populations in the United Kingdom directly indicated that cat and bird densities are positively correlated in urban settings (Sims et al. 2008).”
• Birds in Urban Ecosystems: Population Dynamics, Community Structure, Biodiversity, and Conservation (2015, background): “Thus, when correlated versus each other, cat and bird densities are positively correlated in urban settings (Sims et al., 2008).”
• Influence of landscape characteristics on carnivore diversity and abundance in Mediterranean farmland (2009, background): “…and potential predation effects on farmland biodiversity, involving both the direct killing of individuals and changes in their behaviour and habitat selection patterns to reduce predation risk (Whittingham and Evans, 2004; Eggers et al., 2005; Wallander et al., 2006; Sims et al., 2008).”