Food for thought: supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations

By G. Robb, R. Mcdonald, D. Chamberlain, S. Bearhop. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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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 1987).”
Urban habitats and feeders both contribute to flight initiation distance reduction in birds (2015, background): “Although previous studies have shown that birds are “tame” when attending feeders (Robb et al. 2008), the present study is the first to quantify this as a general effect across species.”
Establishment success of invasive ring‐necked and monk parakeets in Europe (2009, background): “Increased food availability is recognized as one of the main indirect effects that human activity has on urban avian ecology (Robb et al., 2008a,b), and abundant food could well explain the link between the parakeets’ establishment success and human population density.”
Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major) (2017, neutral): “…with altered predation risk (Fischer et al., 2012; Møller and IbáñezÁlamo, 2012), inter and intra-specific competition (Duckworth, 2014), disease prevalence (Bichet et al., 2013; Giraudeau et al., 2014), food type and abundance (Robb et al., 2008; Harrison et al., 2010; Galbraith et al., 2015).”
Garden Bird Feeding: Insights and Prospects from a North-South Comparison of This Global Urban Phenomenon (2017, background): “Robb et al. (2008b) found evidence for such carry-over effects in blue tits fed over the winter that exhibited increased fledging success the following breeding season compared with unsupplemented (control) birds.”
Composition of physiologically important fatty acids in great tits differs between urban and rural populations on a seasonal basis (2015, background): “The density of such anthropogenic food sources is obviously higher in habitats with more human settlements than in e.g., rural forests (Robb et al., 2008).”
Impact of Urbanization on Birds (2018, background): “It is clear that many of the gregarious urban exploiter and invasive species take advantage of this resource (e.g., Robb et al. 2008; Galbraith et al. 2017).”
A Low-Cost Manipulation of Food Resources Reduces Spatial Overlap Between Baboons (Papio ursinus) and Humans in Conflict (2011, background): “2006) and alterations in community composition (Casey and Hein 1983; Robb et al. 2008), both of which are highly undesirable in an ecosystem contained within a biodiversity hotspot.”
Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds (2015, methodology): “These are profound interventions to urban food supply dynamics and suggested to reduce birds’ starvation risk and enhance reproduction (Robb et al. 2008a).”
Ecological and evolutionary implications of food subsidies from humans. (2013, background): “Bird feeding is particularly important in some industrialized countries (e.g. USA and the UK, see Table 1) with important consequences for passerine communities and the cascading effects associated (Table S1, see also Robb et al. 2008).”