Gray squirrel density, habitat suitability, and behavior in urban parks

By Tommy S. Parker, C. Nilon. Urban Ecosystems, 2008

129 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

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2. Kevin J. Gaston
3. P. Warren
4. C. Bonnington
5. Elena G. Irwin
6. B. Wong
7. Peter M. Groffman
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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. B. Wong
3. J. Redmond
4. Kevin J. Gaston
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6. P. Warren
7. A. G. Fulmer
8. S. Partan

Citations in the corpus

• Should we consider individual behavior differences in applied wildlife conservation studies (2017, background): “…density and aggression and decreased wariness and fear of humans in urbanized environments, has been termed the “urban wildlife syndrome” documented in many synurbic species such as gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) and coyote (Canis latrans) (Parker and Nilon, 2008 and references therein).”
• Multimodal alarm behavior in urban and rural gray squirrels studied by means of observation and a mechanical robot (2010, background): “Aggression and flight distance have also been studied in urban populations of gray squirrels (Gustafson and Van Druff, 1990; Parker and Nilon, 2008).”
• Fearing the feline: domestic cats reduce avian fecundity through trait-mediated indirect effects that increase nest predation by other species (2013, background): “We compare blackbirds’ responses to domestic cats with a non-predatory control species (rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus; Linnaeus 1758) and an additional non-native mammalian nest predator, the grey squirrel Sciurus carolinensis (Gmelin 1788) that is common in urban areas (Parker & Nilon 2008).”
• Urban ecological systems: scientific foundations and a decade of progress. (2011, background): “Many of the altered behaviors observed in urban animals are density dependent, suggesting a direct connection from human resource subsidies to these behavioral shifts (Parker and Nilon, 2008).”
• Behavioural responses of wildlife to urban environments (2013, background): “Parker & Nilon (2008) investigated the inter-relationships among population density, intraspecific aggression, and reduced fear of humans in urban populations of grey squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis.”