Urban conservation hotspots: predation release allows the grassland-specialist burrowing owl to perform better in the city

Urban predation: a case study assessing artificial nest survival in a neotropical city

(2016) Anayani Rivera-López et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Heritability of fear of humans in urban and rural populations of a bird species

(2016) Martina Carrete et al.   Scientific Reports

Biodiversity in cities needs space: a meta-analysis of factors determining intra-urban biodiversity variation

(2015) Joscha Beninde et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

(2015) Christopher D. Ives et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity

(2015) Tim Newbold et al.   NATURE

Urbanized birds have superior establishment success in novel environments

(2015) Anders Pape Møller et al.   OECOLOGIA

Physiological evidence for a human-induced landscape of fear in brown bears (Ursus arctos)

(2015) Ole-Gunnar Støen et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Links between fear of humans, stress and survival support a non-random distribution of birds among urban and rural habitats

(2015) Natalia Rebolo-Ifrán et al.   Scientific Reports

Anthropogenic Nesting Sites Allow Urban Breeding in Burrowing ParrotsCyanoliseus patagonus

(2015) José L. Tella et al.   Ardeola-International Journal of Ornithology

Urbanisation tolerance and the loss of avian diversity

(2014) Daniel Sol et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Outstanding challenges for urban conservation research and action

(2014) Assaf Shwartz et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

High Urban Breeding Densities Do Not Disrupt Genetic Monogamy in a Bird Species

(2014) Sol Rodriguez-Martínez et al.   PLoS One

Behavioral Responses Associated with a Human-Mediated Predator Shelter

(2014) Graeme Shannon et al.   PLoS One

Crowding in the City: Losing and Winning Competitors of an Invasive Bird

(2014) Dailos Hernández-Brito et al.   PLoS One

Behavioural adjustments for a life in the city

(2013) Daniel Sol et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The landscape of fear: the missing link to understand top-down and bottom-up controls of prey abundance?

(2013) John W. Laundré et al.   ECOLOGY

The Geography of Fear: A Latitudinal Gradient in Anti-Predator Escape Distances of Birds across Europe

(2013) Mario Díaz et al.   PLoS One

The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States

(2013) Scott R. Loss et al.   Nature Communications

High individual consistency in fear of humans throughout the adult lifespan of rural and urban burrowing owls

(2013) Martina Carrete et al.   Scientific Reports

Mammalian nest predator feces as a cue in avian habitat selection decisions

(2012) Jukka T. Forsman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Urbanization and the Predation Paradox: The Role of Trophic Dynamics in Structuring Vertebrate Communities

(2012) Jason D. Fischer et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Are urban habitats ecological traps for a native songbird? Season-long productivity, apparent survival, and site fidelity in urban and rural habitats

(2012) Christine M. Stracey et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

High urban population density of birds reflects their timing of urbanization

(2012) Anders Pape Møller et al.   OECOLOGIA

Human selection of elk behavioural traits in a landscape of fear

(2012) S. Ciuti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Non-random gene flow: an underappreciated force in evolution and ecology

(2012) Pim Edelaar et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Resolving the urban nest predator paradox: The role of alternative foods for nest predators

(2011) Christine M. Stracey   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Human Activity Helps Prey Win the Predator-Prey Space Race

(2011) Tyler B. Muhly et al.   PLoS One

Inter-Individual Variability in Fear of Humans and Relative Brain Size of the Species Are Related to Contemporary Urban Invasion in Birds

(2011) Martina Carrete et al.   PLoS One

Conservation and the scarecrow effect: Can human activity benefit threatened species by displacing predators?

(2010) Patrick A. Leighton et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The relative importance of patch habitat quality and landscape attributes on a declining steppe-bird metapopulation

(2010) Matthias Vögeli et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Birds of different biogeographic origins respond in contrasting ways to urbanization

(2010) José Antonio González-Oreja   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Antipredator strategies of house finches: are urban habitats safe spots from predators even when humans are around?

(2009) Anna Valcarcel et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Effects of habitat degradation on the abundance, richness and diversity of raptors across Neotropical biomes

(2009) Martina Carrete et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Individual consistency in flight initiation distances in burrowing owls: a new hypothesis on disturbance-induced habitat selection

(2009) M. Carrete et al.   Biology Letters

Population dynamics of two sympatric rodents in a variable environment: rainfall, resource availability, and predation

(2009) M. Andrea Previtali et al.   ECOLOGY

Temporal scales, trade-offs, and functional responses in red deer habitat selection

(2009) Inger Maren Rivrud Godvik et al.   ECOLOGY

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments

(2009) Mark A. Goddard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

MECHANISTIC HOME RANGE MODELS AND RESOURCE SELECTION ANALYSIS: A RECONCILIATION AND UNIFICATION

(2008) Paul R. Moorcroft et al.   ECOLOGY

Avian productivity in urban landscapes: a review and meta-analysis

(2008) D. E. CHAMBERLAIN et al.   IBIS