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L-band radar quantifies major disturbance of birds by fireworks in an urban area
Wayman, Joseph P.; Atkinson, George; Jahangir, Mohammed; White, Daniel; Matthews, Thomas J.; Antoniou, Michail; Reynolds, S. James; Sadler, Jon P.ABSTRACT: Fireworks and other pyrotechnics are acknowledged as sources of disturbance to wildlife, with evidence that many species react adversely to their sight and sound at discharge. However, how firework releases impact wildlife within a city landscape is poorly understood. Here, we explore the effect of fireworks on urban birds using an L-band staring radar (90-degree sector out to a 5 km range) to capture...
Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa wor...
Hahs, Amy K.; Fournier, Bertrand; Aronson, Myla F. J.; Nilon, Charles H.; Herrera-Montes, Adriana; Salisbury, Allyson B.; Threlfall, Caragh G.Cities can host significant biological diversity. Yet, urbanisation leads to the loss of habitats, species, and functional groups. Understanding how multiple taxa respond to urbanisation globally is essential to promote and conserve biodiversity in cities. Using a dataset encompassing six terrestrial faunal taxa (amphibians, bats, bees, birds, carabid beetles and reptiles) across 379 cities on 6 continents, we ...
The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity ...
Hudson, Lawrence N.; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L.L.; Lysenko, Igor; Palma, Adriana de; Phillips, Helen R.P.; Senior, Rebecca A.Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species' threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that support computation of a range of biodivers...