Human-induced fear in wildlife: a review

M Lasky, S Bombaci - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Humans, like natural predators, can induce fear in wildlife, which has the potential to alter
species-level survival and fitness. Though anthropogenic impacts on wildlife have been …

Bird tolerance to humans in open tropical ecosystems

P Mikula, O Tomášek, D Romportl, TK Aikins… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Animal tolerance towards humans can be a key factor facilitating wildlife–human
coexistence, yet traits predicting its direction and magnitude across tropical animals are …

Variation at the DRD4 locus is associated with wariness and local site selection in urban black swans

WFD van Dongen, RW Robinson, MA Weston… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2015 - Springer
Background Interactions between wildlife and humans are increasing. Urban animals are
often less wary of humans than their non-urban counterparts, which could be explained by …

Contagious fear: Escape behavior increases with flock size in European gregarious birds

F Morelli, Y Benedetti, M Díaz, T Grim… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Flight initiation distance (FID), the distance at which individuals take flight when approached
by a potential (human) predator, is a tool for understanding predator–prey interactions …

FEAR, spontaneity, and artifact in economic escape theory: a review and prospectus

WE Cooper Jr, DSM Samia, DT Blumstein - Advances in the Study of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Decision-making by prey about when to begin fleeing when approached by a predator have
been and are being studied intensively, producing a large theoretical and empirical …

A ship traffic disturbance vulnerability index for Northwest European seabirds as a tool for marine spatial planning

KL Fliessbach, K Borkenhagen, N Guse… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ship traffic in Northwestern European seas is intense and continuing to increase, posing a
threat to vulnerable seabird species as a result of disturbance. However, information on …

Database of bird flight initiation distances to assist in estimating effects from human disturbance and delineating buffer areas

KB Livezey, E Fernandez-Juricic… - Journal of Fish and …, 2016 - meridian.allenpress.com
Abstract US Fish and Wildlife Service biologists determine effects from disturbance to
threatened and endangered bird species, and staffs of federal and state agencies estimate …

AvianBuffer: an interactive tool for characterising and managing wildlife fear responses

PJ Guay, WFD van Dongen, RW Robinson… - Ambio, 2016 - Springer
The characterisation and management of deleterious processes affecting wildlife are ideally
based on sound scientific information. However, relevant information is often absent, or …

Urban birds' tolerance towards humans was largely unaffected by COVID-19 shutdown-induced variation in human presence

P Mikula, M Bulla, DT Blumstein, Y Benedetti… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and respective shutdowns
dramatically altered human activities, potentially changing human pressures on urban …

Ecological and environmental predictors of escape among birds on a large tropical island

KB Ekanayake, JJ Gnanapragasam… - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2022 - Springer
Ecological and environmental traits can influence avian escape behaviour but most data
underpinning our current understanding relates to continental and temperate areas and …