[HTML][HTML] Invited review: Social dominance in dairy cattle: A critical review with guidelines for future research

J Krahn, B Foris, DM Weary… - Journal of Dairy Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Cattle are gregarious animals able to form social relationships. Dominance is one of the
most widely studied social behaviors of dairy cattle, especially cows confined indoors …

[HTML][HTML] Habitat quality, urbanisation & pesticides influence bird abundance and richness in gardens

CT de Montaigu, D Goulson - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Gardens are regularly portrayed as green oases, refuges for wildlife that has been displaced
from the countryside by intensive farming practices which have reduced habitat availability …

Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?

JD Shutt, AC Lees - Biological Conservation, 2021 - Elsevier
Provisioning of wildlife with food, water and breeding sites is a globally ubiquitous
phenomenon. While some provisioning is targeted at single species of conservation …

Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom

MH Warrington, MB Schrimpf… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human activities may impact animal habitat and resource use, potentially influencing
contemporary evolution in animals. In the United Kingdom, COVID-19 lockdown restrictions …

The composition of British bird communities is associated with long-term garden bird feeding

KE Plummer, K Risely, MP Toms… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
There is a multi-billion dollar global industry dedicated to feeding wild birds in residential
gardens. This extraordinary boost to food resources is almost certainly reshaping entire bird …

A comparison of the nutritional physiology and gut microbiome of urban and rural house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

A Gadau, SC Meli'Sa, R Mayek, M Giraudeau… - … and Physiology Part B …, 2019 - Elsevier
Urbanization influences food quality and availability for many wild species, but our
knowledge of the consequences urbanization has on the nutritional physiology of these …

Effects of density, species interactions, and environmental stochasticity on the dynamics of British bird communities

L Sandal, V Grøtan, BE Sæther, RP Freckleton… - Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Our knowledge of the factors affecting species abundances is mainly based on time‐series
analyses of a few well‐studied species at single or few localities, but we know little about …

Supplementary bird feeding as an overlooked contribution to local phosphorus cycles

AJ Abraham, CE Doughty, KE Plummer… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Supplementary feeding of garden birds and gamebirds is a common practice worldwide.
Bird feed is rich in phosphorus (P), which plays a key role in animal health and ecosystem …

Habitat-use influences severe disease-mediated population declines in two of the most common garden bird species in Great Britain

HJ Hanmer, AA Cunningham, SK John, SK Magregor… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The influence of supplementary feeding of wildlife on disease transmission and its
consequent impacts on population dynamics are underappreciated. In Great Britain …

In Situ Provisioning Wildlife with Food, Water, or Shelter after Bushfires: Using a One Welfare Framework to Guide Responses

B Jones, C Herbert, S Finnerty, B Kennedy, A Lykins… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The 2019–2020 Black Summer bushfires had a devastating impact on
Australian biodiversity. Many affected human communities felt compelled to intervene by …