Fearing the feline: Domestic cats reduce avian fecundity through trait-mediated indirect effects that increase nest predation by other species

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 15-24

  Bonnington, Colin ^a   Gaston, Kevin J ^b   Evans, Karl L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chick growth rate; Crows; Eavesdropping; Gray squirrel; Nest defence; Non native species; Provisioning rate; Skutch's hypothesis; Songbirds; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FECUNDITY; FELID; FOOD PROVISIONING; INVASIVE SPECIES; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEST GUARDING; NEST PREDATION; NEST SITE; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SONGBIRD; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; URBANIZATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; FELIDAE; FELIS CATUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PASSERI; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 84873121322     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12025     Document Type: Article

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