Unmanned aircraft systems as a new source of disturbance for wildlife: A systematic review

M Mulero-Pázmány, S Jenni-Eiermann, N Strebel… - PloS one, 2017‏ - journals.plos.org
The use of small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS; also known as “drones”) for professional
and personal-leisure use is increasing enormously. UAS operate at low altitudes (< 500 m) …

Foraging for foundations in decision neuroscience: insights from ethology

D Mobbs, PC Trimmer, DT Blumstein… - Nature Reviews …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Modern decision neuroscience offers a powerful and broad account of human behaviour
using computational techniques that link psychological and neuroscientific approaches to …

Fear of humans as apex predators has landscape‐scale impacts from mountain lions to mice

JP Suraci, M Clinchy, LY Zanette, CC Wilmers - Ecology letters, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Apex predators such as large carnivores can have cascading, landscape‐scale impacts
across wildlife communities, which could result largely from the fear they inspire, although …

Habituation and sensitization: new thoughts about old ideas

DT Blumstein - Animal behaviour, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•The idea that animals may habituate to benign stimuli is an old idea.•Habituation
to human stimuli is important for wildlife conservation/management.•I review generalizations …

Perceived predation risk reduces the number of offspring songbirds produce per year

LY Zanette, AF White, MC Allen, M Clinchy - Science, 2011‏ - science.org
Predator effects on prey demography have traditionally been ascribed solely to direct killing
in studies of population ecology and wildlife management. Predators also affect the prey's …

Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife

DSM Samia, S Nakagawa, F Nomura… - Nature …, 2015‏ - nature.com
Human disturbance drives the decline of many species, both directly and indirectly.
Nonetheless, some species do particularly well around humans. One mechanism that may …

Predator‐induced stress and the ecology of fear

M Clinchy, MJ Sheriff, LY Zanette - Functional Ecology, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Predator‐induced stress has been used to exemplify the concept of stress for close to a
century because almost everyone can imagine the terror of fleeing for one's life from a lion or …

[HTML][HTML] Vision guides selection of freeze or flight defense strategies in mice

G De Franceschi, T Vivattanasarn, AB Saleem… - Current biology, 2016‏ - cell.com
In prey species such as mice, avoidance of predators is key to survival and drives instinctual
behaviors like freeze or flight [1, 2]. Sensory signals guide the selection of appropriate …

[PDF][PDF] Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds

G Seress, A Liker - Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2015‏ - core.ac.uk
By transforming landscapes, human activity creates new types of habitats with altered
environmental characteristics that never existed before. As the process of habitat …

Species differences in responses to captivity: stress, welfare and the comparative method

GJ Mason - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2010‏ - cell.com
Approximately 26 billion animals, spanning over 10 000 species, are kept on farms and in
zoos, conservation breeding centers, research laboratories and households. Captive …