The contribution of constructed green infrastructure to urban biodiversity: A synthesis and meta‐analysis

A Filazzola, N Shrestha… - Journal of Applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of buildings and other infrastructure in cities is viewed as a threat to local
biodiversity and ecosystem functioning because natural habitat is replaced. However, there …

Urban biodiversity and the importance of scale

K Uchida, RV Blakey, JR Burger, DS Cooper… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Many ecological and evolutionary processes are affected by urbanization, but cities vary by
orders of magnitude in their human population size and areal extent. To quantify and …

Habitat urbanization and its effects on birds

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

A decadal review of urban ornithology and a prospectus for the future

JM Marzluff - Ibis, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The study of urban birds has increased exponentially in the last century. A prior review of the
scientific literature up to the year 2000 found 100 research articles on urban birds, but in the …

Population impacts of free‐ranging domestic cats on mainland vertebrates

SR Loss, PP Marra - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Domestic cats (Felis catus) have contributed to at least 63 vertebrate extinctions, pose a
major hazard to threatened vertebrates worldwide, and transmit multiple zoonotic diseases …

Nest predation research: recent findings and future perspectives

JD Ibáñez-Álamo, RD Magrath, JC Oteyza… - Journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Nest predation is a key source of selection for birds that has attracted increasing attention
from ornithologists. The inclusion of new concepts applicable to nest predation that stem …

Review and synthesis of the global literature on domestic cat impacts on wildlife

SR Loss, B Boughton, SM Cady… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A vast global literature documents that free‐roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) have
substantial negative effects on wildlife, including through predation, fear, disease and …

Quantifying free-roaming domestic cat predation using animal-borne video cameras

KAT Loyd, SM Hernandez, JP Carroll… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Domestic cats (Felis catus) are efficient and abundant non-native predators. Predation by
domestic cats remains a topic of considerable social and scientific debate and warrants …

Domestic cats and their impacts on biodiversity: A blind spot in the application of nature conservation law

A Trouwborst, PC McCormack… - People and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Free‐ranging domestic cats Felis catus, from owned pets to feral cats, impact biodiversity
through predation, fear effects, competition, disease and hybridization. Scientific knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Provision of high meat content food and object play reduce predation of wild animals by domestic cats Felis catus

M Cecchetti, SL Crowley, CED Goodwin, RA McDonald - Current biology, 2021 - cell.com
Predation by domestic cats Felis catus can be a threat to biodiversity conservation, 1–3 but
its mitigation is controversial. 4 Confinement and collar-mounted devices can impede cat …