Does urbanization affect predation of bird nests? A meta-analysis

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue APR, 2017, Pages

  Vincze, Erno ^a,b,c   Seress, Gábor ^b   Lagisz, Malgorzata ^d   Nakagawa, Shinichi ^d   Dingemanse, Niels J ^a   Sprau, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c MTA PE Limnoecology Research Group   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Avian nest mortality; Interspecific interactions; Meta regression; Predation pressure; Survival rate; Top down control; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031663932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00029     Document Type: Article

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