Which traits influence bird survival in the city? A review

S Patankar, R Jambhekar, KR Suryawanshi… - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Urbanization poses a major threat to biodiversity worldwide. We focused on birds as a well-
studied taxon of interest, in order to review literature on traits that influence responses to …

United colours of the city: A review about urbanisation impact on animal colours

L Leveau - Austral Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat colour gradients characterise urban areas: from green prevailing in the least
urbanised areas dominated by lawn, shrubs and trees, to grey characteristic of heavily …

Noise level and water distance drive resident and migratory bird species richness within a Neotropical megacity

KV de Camargo Barbosa, AD Rodewald… - Landscape and Urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
A large body of evidence indicates that urbanization profoundly affects ecological
communities, but the extent to which patterns are generalizable across regions, such as in …

Noise and tree species richness modulate the bird community inhabiting small public urban green spaces of a Neotropical city

BF da Silva, JC Pena, AB Viana-Junior, M Vergne… - Urban …, 2021 - Springer
Small public urban green spaces (SPUGS) are important for human life-quality and for
maintenance of biodiversity within urban landscapes. However, little is known about how …

Effects of artificial light on bird movement and distribution: a systematic map

CA Adams, E Fernández-Juricic, EM Bayne… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
Background Artificial light is ubiquitous in the built environment with many known or
suspected impacts on birds. Birds flying at night are known to aggregate around artificial …

[HTML][HTML] Gulls living in cities as overlooked seed dispersers within and outside urban environments

V Martín-Vélez, T Montalvo, I Afán… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The yellow-legged gull is an opportunistic and generalist bird that has colonised urban
areas, where it has found very favourable trophic resources but also causes disturbance to …

Adapting to urban ecosystems: unravelling the foraging ecology of an opportunistic predator living in cities

A Méndez, T Montalvo, R Aymí, M Carmona… - Urban …, 2020 - Springer
The increasing urbanisation of the natural environment affects species differently. While
most species cannot cope with these human impacts, others can persist or may even be …

Big cities with small green areas hold a lower species richness and proportion of migrant birds: A global analysis

LM Leveau - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021 - Elsevier
Several studies around the world have shown that species richness and proportion of
migrant species in bird communities increase toward the poles as a result of increased …

An avian urban morphotype: how the city environment shapes great tit morphology at different life stages

AE Caizergues, A Charmantier, MM Lambrechts… - Urban …, 2021 - Springer
Urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon associated with tremendous modifications of
natural habitats. Understanding how city dwelling species are affected by those changes is …

[HTML][HTML] Sources of persistent organic pollutants and their physiological effects on opportunistic urban gulls

D Nos, T Montalvo, N Cortés-Francisco… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urbanization is associated with drastic shifts in biodiversity. While some species thrive in
urban areas, the impact of inhabiting these human-altered environments on organism …