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Making wildlife welcome in urban areas
eLife, 2018 Careful design of the green spaces in cities will benefit both wild animals and humans.
Travis Gallo, Mason Fidino
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Green Infrastructure and Urban Wildlife
Humanimalia, 2019 As a result of urban greening initiatives, urban ecologies have become surprisingly hospitable to wildlife. Such initiatives, however, seldom actively imagine the city as wildlife habitat, nor are they particularly intentional about its design. Even so,
Christian Hunold
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In many areas, domestic cats are the most abundant predators of small vertebrates. Due to the potential impact on prey populations by cats, there are calls to investigate the effectiveness of visual and acoustic cues as measures to reduce the cat’s ...
Madeleine Geiger +9 more
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The evolutionary consequences of human–wildlife conflict in cities
Evolutionary Applications, 2021 Human–wildlife interactions, including human–wildlife conflict, are increasingly common as expanding urbanization worldwide creates more opportunities for people to encounter wildlife.
Christopher J. Schell +6 more
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Urbanization and the ecology of wildlife diseases [PDF]
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2007 Urbanization is intensifying worldwide, with two-thirds of the human population expected to reside in cities within 30 years. The role of cities in human infectious disease is well established, but less is known about how urban landscapes influence wildlife-pathogen interactions. Here, we draw on recent advances in wildlife epidemiology to consider how
Bradley, Catherine A., Altizer, Sonia
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What can we learn from wildlife sightings during the COVID‐19 global shutdown?
Ecosphere, 2020 During the worldwide shutdown in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, many reports emerged of urban wildlife sightings. While these images garnered public interest and declarations of wildlife reclaiming cities, it is unclear whether wildlife truly ...
Amanda J. Zellmer +8 more
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Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 As society becomes more urbanized, public perceptions about wildlife and nature are increasingly being shaped by social media and/or encounters with wildlife and nature in urban centers.
Terry A. Messmer
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Wildlife Affordances of Urban Infrastructure: A Framework to Understand Human-Wildlife Space Use
Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2021 Landscape affordances, what the environment offers an animal, are inherently species-specific to the extent that each taxon has unique needs and responses to landscape characteristics.
Chase A. Niesner +4 more
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Encounters with rats in urban areas increase risk of human exposure to rat-associated zoonotic pathogens and act as a stressor associated with psychological distress.
Maureen H. Murray +6 more
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Behavior Change in Urban Mammals: A Systematic Review
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 As cities expand to accommodate a growing human population, their impacts to natural ecosystems and the wildlife residing within them increase.
Kate Ritzel, Travis Gallo
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