Journal of Wildlife Diseases, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 60(4)

Published: Oct. 16, 2024

Urban sprawl threatens biodiversity and is responsible for significant changes in the species that live these environments. Given high cost of comprehensive surveillance, monitoring disease indirectly, such as detecting skin lesions birds, may help us better understand prevalence diseases affecting wild populations. We assessed frequency leg lesions, a proxy presence, 1,565 individuals 25 species, along urban matrix large Neotropical city, Brasília, Federal District, Brazil. tested hypothesis there an increase birds due to intensification. observed increasing trend some bird between occurrence intensity urbanization. Species with higher number captures had percentage indicating be linked population density or detection effect occurs only when sample sizes are controlled among urbanization categories. Our study highlights how risk transmission species. Unfortunately, studies on this topic scarce regions, despite region's expansion.

Language: Английский