Feathered Icons: Drivers of Global Attention on Bird Species DOI Creative Commons
Haozhong Si, C. D. Fu, Fan Yu

et al.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

Abstract Global biodiversity faces profound threats. Efforts to slow loss remain inadequate without greater public engagement. With challenges in the biases of species knowledge across taxa and regions, many endemic or threatened receive insufficient attention. Birds, with their ecological importance cultural visibility, present an ideal object for exploring knowledge. To understand factors driving scientific interest birds, we compiled a comprehensive dataset investigate how phenotypic, ecological, influence attention toward global bird species. Our analysis reveals that related familiarity charisma significantly shape priorities. In contrast are have limited ranges often little IUCN status alone fails sustain these address this imbalance, propose strategies such as media campaigns conservation education better engage communities. These efforts crucial ensuring could encompass sufficient range

Language: Английский

Feathered Icons: Drivers of Global Attention on Bird Species DOI Creative Commons
Zhongqiu Li

Published: Jan. 10, 2025

Global biodiversity faces profound threats. Efforts to slow loss remain inadequate without greater public engagement. With challenges in the biases of species knowledge across taxa and regions, many endemic or threatened receive insufficient attention. Birds, with their ecological importance cultural visibility, present an ideal object for exploring knowledge. To understand factors driving scientific interest birds, we compiled a comprehensive dataset investigate how phenotypic, ecological, influence attention toward global bird species. Our analysis reveals that related familiarity charisma significantly shape priorities. In contrast are have limited ranges often little IUCN status alone fails sustain these address this imbalance, propose strategies such as media campaigns conservation education better engage communities. These efforts crucial ensuring could encompass sufficient range

Language: Английский

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Local and Landscape Drivers of Ground Bird Flocking Behavior in Urban Parks of Buenos Aires City, Argentina DOI Creative Commons
Lucas M. Leveau

Birds, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 6(2), P. 23 - 23

Published: May 1, 2025

The flock formation of bird species is a crucial behavioral process that enables them to colonize urban areas. However, the factors influencing structure and composition ground-feeding flocks have not yet been analyzed. This study aimed relate characteristics, including size, number, richness, composition, local landscape in parks Buenos Aires City, Argentina. Surveys were conducted 16 during breeding season, covering both mono-specific mixed-species flocks. Flock numbers positively correlated with tree, lawn, bare ground cover but negatively associated raptor presence parks. richness declined increased noise pedestrian traffic rose where raptors present. was linked tree cover, noise, raptors. While Rock Dove (Columba livia) Rufous-bellied Thrush (Turdus rufiventris) more abundant greater Eared (Zenaida auriculata) Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) showed abundance open Zenaida auriculata Columba livia experienced decline Our findings indicate resource availability predation risk are shaping

Language: Английский

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Colourful Urban Birds: Bird Species Successful in Urban Environments Have More Elaborate Colours and Less Brown DOI
Juan Diego Ibáñez‐Álamo, Kaspar Delhey, Lucía Izquierdo

et al.

Ecology Letters, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 28(4)

Published: April 1, 2025

Rapidly expanding urbanisation presents significant challenges to wildlife. Consequently, many studies have investigated the impact of on diverse organisms. However, despite ecological relevance animal colouration, its association with remains poorly understood. Using a global database, we computed an index urban success for 1287 bird species and quantified estimates plumage colour. Our analyses showed that birds do well in environments are more likely be blue, dark grey black, less brown or yellow. After considering phylogenetic relatedness, only effects yellow remained significant. Species high also exhibit elaborate colours, but not higher sexual dichromatism. We provide eco-evolutionary explanations these results. Assemblage-level did support colour homogenisation hypothesis: Urban communities were colour-diverse after accounting richness. findings suggest colours part urban-associated syndrome.

Language: Английский

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Attributing spatially stratified heterogeneity in biodiversity of urban–rural interlaced zones based on the OPGD model DOI Creative Commons
Di Wang, Lang Zhang, Haoran Yu

et al.

Ecological Informatics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 83, P. 102789 - 102789

Published: Aug. 23, 2024

Language: Английский

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Flight initiation distance differs among eumelanin‐based color morphs in feral pigeons DOI Creative Commons
Adrien Frantz,

M. Baneux,

L. Pichon

et al.

Journal of Zoology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 8, 2024

Abstract Organisms facing anthropogenic activities usually exhibit phenotypic responses assumed to enhance coping with disturbance. These include a decreasing degree of reaction toward potentially risky situations (“behavioral tolerance”) increasing Though melanin is associated many traits, including pigmentation and behavior, the potential relationship between behavioral tolerance has never been explored. Such may result from either direct association behavior (e.g., genetic correlation) or indirectly through coloration‐dependent behavior‐modulating factor differential predation human preferences in cities color morphs). Feral pigeons ( Columba livia ) represent an ideal biological system test for these hypotheses, due their presence worldwide, considerable variation eumelanin‐based coloration, ranging white black plumage, close proximity humans. We measured Flight Initiation Distance (FID, classically used assessment) feral 4 different morphs sites differing urbanization rate pedestrian traffic within restricted scale city center (Paris). Urbanization had no effect on FID, maybe because small spatial considered. FID varied coloration: lower (104.6 cm; i.e., higher tolerance) than darker (232.3 cm Blue bar, 184.4 T‐pattern & Checker, 181.8 Spread exact underlying causes remain be identified, we propose possible mechanisms this that investigated future work.

Language: Английский

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Feathered Icons: Drivers of Global Attention on Bird Species DOI Creative Commons
Haozhong Si, C. D. Fu, Fan Yu

et al.

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

Abstract Global biodiversity faces profound threats. Efforts to slow loss remain inadequate without greater public engagement. With challenges in the biases of species knowledge across taxa and regions, many endemic or threatened receive insufficient attention. Birds, with their ecological importance cultural visibility, present an ideal object for exploring knowledge. To understand factors driving scientific interest birds, we compiled a comprehensive dataset investigate how phenotypic, ecological, influence attention toward global bird species. Our analysis reveals that related familiarity charisma significantly shape priorities. In contrast are have limited ranges often little IUCN status alone fails sustain these address this imbalance, propose strategies such as media campaigns conservation education better engage communities. These efforts crucial ensuring could encompass sufficient range

Language: Английский

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