Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems

0571278 - ÚBO 2024 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Mikula, Peter - Tomášek, Oldřich - Romportl, D. - Aikins, T. K. - Avendaño, J. E. - Braimoh-Azaki, B. D. A. - Chaskda, A. - Cresswell, W. - Cunningham, S. J. - Dale, S. - Favoretto, G. R. - Floyd, K. S. - Glover, H. - Grim, T. - Henry, D. A. W. - Holmern, T. - Hromada, M. - Iwajomo, S. B. - Lilleyman, A. - Magige, F. J. - Martin, R. O. - de A Maximiano, M. F. - Nana, E. D. - Ncube, B. - Ndaimani, H. - Nelson, E. - Van Niekerk, A. - Pienaar, C. - Piratelli, A. J. - Pistorius, P. - Radkovic, A. - Reynolds, C. - Røskaft, E. - Shanungu, G. K. - Siqueira, P. R. - Tarakini, T. - Tejeiro-Mahecha, N. - Thompson, M. L. - Wamiti, W. - Wilson, M. - Tye, D. R. C. - Tye, N. D. - Vehtari, A. - Tryjanowski, P. - Weston, M. A. - Blumstein, D. T. - Albrecht, Tomáš
Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems.
Nature Communications. Roč. 14, č. 1 (2023), č. článku 2146. E-ISSN 2041-1723
Institutional support: RVO:68081766
Keywords : risk * urbanization * fear * disturbance * predation * impacts
OECD category: Zoology
Impact factor: 16.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37936-5

Animal tolerance towards humans can be a key factor facilitating wildlife-human coexistence, yet traits predicting its direction and magnitude across tropical animals are poorly known. Using 10,249 observations for 842 bird species inhabiting open tropical ecosystems in Africa, South America, and Australia, we find that avian tolerance towards humans was lower (i.e., escape distance was longer) in rural rather than urban populations and in populations exposed to lower human disturbance (measured as human footprint index). In addition, larger species and species with larger clutches and enhanced flight ability are less tolerant to human approaches and escape distances increase when birds were approached during the wet season compared to the dry season and from longer starting distances. Identification of key factors affecting animal tolerance towards humans across large spatial and taxonomic scales may help us to better understand and predict the patterns of species distributions in the Anthropocene.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0342539


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