The effect of decreasing human activity from COVID ‐19 on the foraging of fallen fruit by omnivores

Ecology and Evolution, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 12(12)

Published: Dec. 1, 2022

In 2020, a lockdown was implemented in many cities around the world to contain COVID-19 pandemic, resulting significant cessation of human activity which have had variety impacts on wildlife. But cases, due limited pre-lockdown information, and there are studies how lockdowns specifically affected behaviors. Foraging behavior is inherently linked fitness survival, particularly by changes temporal activity, influence disturbance foraging can be assessed quantitatively based duration quantity. The purpose this study determine whether fruit-foraging behaviors two omnivores, Japanese badger (

Language: Английский

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Anti Covid-19 face-masks increases vigilance in Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana)

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 263, P. 109339 - 109339

Published: Sept. 21, 2021

Language: Английский

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Roadkill in a time of pandemic: the analysis of wildlife-vehicle collisions reveals the differential impact of COVID-19 lockdown over mammal assemblages

Published: July 20, 2021

Collisions with vehicles are a major anthropogenic cause of mortality for wildlife, conservation and evolutionary implications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries worldwide enforced lockdowns which importantly reduced traffic, therefore had unprecedented consequences global wildlife populations. We modeled how two lockdown periods in spring autumn 2020 influenced wildlife-vehicle collisions Slovenia (central Europe), by comparing long-term (for period 2010–2020) high-quality time series data on road seven mammalian species: European roe deer (n = 53,259), red fox 9,889), badger 5,170), brown hare 5,050), stone marten 4,267), wild boar 1,188), 1,088). decomposed 2010–2019 through autoregressive Bayesian Generalized Additive Models, then we compared forecasts, aiming estimate anomalies number during both periods. During (16 March – 30 April 2020), observed far less than average as well badger. In autumnal (20 October 31 December significantly boar. Traffic reduction impact deer, experienced 270–330 road-related cases expected. traffic-related majority studied species. some species, this decrease reached magnitude biological significance, can have repercussions evolution management. Obviously, large-scale sanitary policies, imposing human mobility, impacts wildlife. As pandemics may increase next decades, encourage further research exploring their enforcement over change evolution.

Language: Английский

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Phenotypic plasticity in the anthropause: does reduced human activity impact novel nesting behaviour in an urban bird?

Animal Behaviour, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 203, P. 143 - 155

Published: July 28, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic temporarily transformed urban ecosystems by restricting public human activity to only the most essential societal functions, even as other landscape level factors such built environment remained unchanged. In so doing, it provided a unique opportunity experimentally answer questions about role of disturbance in driving behavioural adaptation wildlife. We compared nesting data collected on an dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis, population University California, Los Angeles (UCLA), U.S.A. campus during 2021 season, when restrictions were effect, similar set 2019, before pandemic, order examine (1) whether juncos UCLA altered their use novel off-ground and artificial sites response reduced (2) impacted success. found that after >80% reduction activity, junco success modestly increased prepandemic levels. However, nest site selection Our findings suggest or predators, rather than drives birds.

Language: Английский

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Anthropopause positively influenced Red Sea Clownfish (Amphiprion bicinctus) populations but not the host sea anemone (Actiniaria spp.) in Eilat, Israel

Marine Policy, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 145, P. 105280 - 105280

Published: Sept. 19, 2022

Language: Английский

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