Avian preference for close proximity to human habitation and its ecological consequences

Avian preference for close proximity to human habitation and its ecological consequences

Anders Pape MφLLER;Mario DíAZ

【期刊名称】《动物学报（英文版）》 【年(卷),期】2018(064)005

【摘要】Human proximity often have negative consequences for wildlife.However,animals may also benefit from human proximity in terms of availability of resources and protection against predators and parasites.We recorded the distance between all birds detected during the breeding season along 18 5-km transects and the nearest inhabited house in three areas of 50 km2 in Spain,France,and Denmark.More than three quarters of birds were located closer than 100 m to the nearest house,while the null expectation was less than a third.Mean distance for species was correlated with degree of bird urbanization and with flight initiation distance.Habitat specialist species with small breeding territories tended to live closer to houses.Birds from species having more broods per year,larger annual fecundity and lower nest predation rate lived closer to human habitation.Breeding range size,population density,and continental breeding population sizes were larger for species living closer to human habitation.Most relationships between distance to houses and bird traits had a strong phylogenetic signal,but most

additive

trait

effects

remained

after

phylogenetic