Credit or debit? Resource input changes population dynamics of city‐slicker birds

By E. Shochat. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Trophic Dynamics in Urban Communities (2005, background): “In the city, bottom-up competition for a higher and more consistently available food supply by highly efficient urban specialists (e.g., house sparrows and doves) becomes more intense (Shochat 2004, Shochat et al. 2004b).”
How many birds are there in a city of half a million people? (2009, result): “This is consistent with predictions that high food density and low predation risk in urban environments will result in a few species becoming superabundant (Shochat et al., 2004; Shochat, 2004).”
Urban bird declines and the fear of cats (2007, background): “Current research continues to reinforce that urban predation rates are likely to be less than or equal to rural ones (V. Sims, pers. comm., and see Haskell, Knupp & Schneider, 2001; Shochat, 2004).”
Nest Composition Adjustments by Chinese Bulbuls Pycnonotus sinensis in an Urbanized Landscape of Hangzhou (E China) (2009, background): “Adjustments in diets (Fleischer et al. 2003), songs (Slabbekoorn & Peet 2003, Wood & Yezrinac 2006), and morphology (Shochat 2004, Liker et al. 2008) are important processes for birds to invade urban environments, but the role of nesting behavior shifts has rarely been examined (Wang et al. 2008).”
Birds in Urban Ecosystems: Population Dynamics, Community Structure, Biodiversity, and Conservation (2015, background): “Increase in bird densities may be the result of high food density (bottom-up control), low predation pressure (top-down control), or the combination of both (Shochat, 2004).”
Establishment success of invasive ring‐necked and monk parakeets in Europe (2009, background): “Although resource-matching theory predicts that high bird densities result from greater resource availability, Shochat (2004) argues that high food availability in cities leads to over-exploitation and that urban bird densities might exceed carrying capacity, impacting on body condition and/or life…”
Seize the night: European Blackbirds (Turdus merula) extend their foraging activity under artificial illumination (2015, background): “Nevertheless , several authors proposed that the urban environment has a higher food availability and predictability (Batten 1978; Marzluff 2001; Shochat 2004).”
Urbanization Shapes the Ecology and Evolution of Plant-Arthropod Herbivore Interactions (2019, background): “This increase in bird abundance has been linked to increased predation on urban arthropods (Marzluff et al., 2001; Shochat, 2004), which may also be responsible for decreased foliage loss to some trees (Kozlov et al.”
Invasion, Competition, and Biodiversity Loss in Urban Ecosystems (2010, background): “The role of top-down control, however, is far less clear (Shochat 2004).”
Living in the city: can anyone become an ‘urban exploiter'? (2007, background): “Research on biodiversity in urban landscapes, and especially on urban birds, has shown that the richness of species along a gradient of increasing urbanization tends to decline with increasing urbanization (Marzluff, 2001; Shochat, 2004; Faeth et al., 2005; Clergeau et al., 2006; McKinney, 2006).”
Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, background): “The long-time and ubiquitous presence of cats and the lack of general negative correlations between predator and prey densities may also suggest that present species composition of urban aviafauna represents a subset of species which are selected to be resilient to cat predation (Shochat 2004).”
Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidies from humans. (2013, background): “THE IMPORTANCE OF PREDICTABILITY The role of predictability in the exploitation and advantages of PAFS compared to natural and less predictable foraging resources, has seldom been considered (Goldberg et al. 2001; Shochat 2004).”
Antipredator strategies of house finches: are urban habitats safe spots from predators even when humans are around? (2009, background): “However, Shochat (2004) proposed that the body condition of birds inhabiting highly urbanized habitats should be lower due to higher competition and the lower energetic quality of food.”
Urbanization and the Predation Paradox: The Role of Trophic Dynamics in Structuring Vertebrate Communities (2012, background): “The apparent contradiction between predation relaxation and predator proliferation has been called the predation paradox (figure 1; Shochat 2004).”
Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress. (2011, background): “The literature is divided on whether the elevated densities constitute resource matching (Rodewald and Shustack, 2008a,b) or over matching (Shochat, 2004).”