Multiple indices of body condition reveal no negative effect of urbanization in adult house sparrows

Bókony, Veronika; Seress, Gábor; Nagy, Szabolcs; Lendvai, Ádám Z.; Liker, András

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.10.006

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“…Similarly, some studies found an effect of urbanization on body size or growth in other bird species (Heiss et al, 2009;Bókony et al, 2012;Seress et al, 2012), supporting the idea that urbanization can have detrimental effects on growth and development. Interestingly, the influence of urbanization on body size also seems to depend on the degree of urbanization in some of these studies Meillère et al, 2017).…”

Section: Urbanization and Body Size In Nestling Great Titsmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…In addition, an individual-based approach is also necessary to fully understand the ecological processes that may constrain the ability of wild populations to cope with urbanization (Gil and Brumm, 2014). Several studies have for instance demonstrated that living in an urban environment is associated with phenotypical changes in vertebrates (e.g., body size: Bókony et al, 2012;Meillère et al, 2017, secondary sexual signals: Fuller et al, 2007Giraudeau et al, 2015, stress physiology: Bonier, 2012, immunity: Audet et al, 2015. Moreover, a large number of studies have also shown that urbanization affects reproductive performances, such as phenology or the number of young produced (Both et al, 2004;Chamberlain et al, 2009;Ausprey and Rodewald, 2011;Stracey and Robinson, 2012;Deviche and Davies, 2014;Møller et al, 2015).…”

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Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major)

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Urban sprawl is associated with deep and intense modifications of the natural habitats of wild vertebrates. Although, many species are unable to cope with such an environment, a few species can be found in cities and can help us assessing the impact of urbanization on wildlife. Urban-related environmental modifications are multiple and some of them seem beneficial while others seem rather detrimental to wild vertebrates. Moreover, the impact of these modifications on wild vertebrates is likely to vary depending on the phase of the annual life-cycle. Therefore, it is challenging to get a comprehensive picture of the impact of urbanization on wild vertebrates. Overall, urbanization is usually associated with reduced breeding performances in wild birds, but the impact of urbanization on the phenotype and quality of developing offspring has been less studied. In this study, we specifically investigated the impact of urbanization on several proxies of individual quality in great tits (Parus major). We concomitantly measured body size (tarsus length and body mass), plumage coloration, and telomere length in 14-days old chicks issued from 4 populations (two pairs of urban/rural populations located in two different geographical areas of France). First, rural chicks were significantly taller and heavier than urban birds although this impact of urbanization on body size/body mass appears only true for the most urbanized site. Interestingly, body size was also affected by the geographical area of capture, suggesting that regional environmental conditions may attenuate or exacerbate the influence of urbanization on nestling growth. Second, the carotenoid-based yellow plumage of rural nestlings was more colorful than that of urban birds, independently of the area of capture. This suggests that urban birds probably have a low-carotenoid diet relative to rural birds. Finally, telomere length did not differ between rural and urban chicks. These results suggest that urbanization probably imposes large developmental constraints in wild vertebrates and that this impact may primarily be related to constraining nutritional conditions.

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Section: Urbanization and Body Size In Nestling Great Titsmentioning

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Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major)

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“…The method was successfully used by some authors (Bókony et al, 2010(Bókony et al, , 2012a(Bókony et al, , 2012bZhang et al, 2011). In the present work, the centres of the streets of the case sites (hereinafter: 'case sites') were used as the location of the cases to protect the privacy rights of the dog owners.…”

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Impacts of urbanisation level and distance from potential natural mosquito breeding habitats on the abundance of canine dirofilariosis

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Farkas-Iványi

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Dirofilariosis is an emerging mosquito-borne veterinary and medical problem in the Northern hemisphere. The ecological investigation of 56 canine dirofilariosis cases in new endemic locations was performed in Szeged, Hungary. The aim was to analyse the influence of the spatial patterns of dog abundance and the potential mosquito breeding habitats on the spatial occurrence patterns of dirofilariosis in the city of Szeged. The limnoecological characterisation was based on the fluvial habitat classification of Amoros of natural water bodies; the built environment was evaluated using the UrbanisationScore urbanisation intensity measuring software. Dirofilaria immitis accounted for 51% and D. repens for 34.3% of the dirofilariosis cases, and in 20% of the cases only the Knott's test was positive. It was concluded that most of the cases were related to locations with a medium to high urbanisation index, although the proximity of mosquito-bearing waters also played an important role in the observed spatial infection patterns. We found that the distance from potential mosquito habitats and the urbanisation intensity determine the abundance of dirofilariosis in urban environments. Key words: Dirofilaria immitis, Dirofilaria repens, urbanisation intensity, Amoros classificationDirofilariosis caused by Dirofilaria immitis and D. repens is one of the most important emerging parasitic, mosquito-borne diseases in the oceanic and temperate climate areas of Europe (Raccurt, 1999;

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“…If enough attentions would not been paid to the lifestyle changes, the resulted lifestyle can decrease happiness and increase stress and pressure (Mecer, 2012). Therefore, one of the problems in our cities can be lack of happiness feeling while people experience more stress and pressure and this issue can affect the quality of life (Bókony et al, 2012).…”

Section: Hamed Mirzaei Azin Bahreini Mehdi Moeinaddini Zohreh Asadmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nowadays people who are living in urban areas suffer from stress and depression because of their motorized lifestyle (Bókony et al, 2012;Peig and Green, 2010). Although happiness can decrease this stress and stress-related diseases (Shochat et al, 2007;Ã-Ralf et al, 2007), people who are living in urban areas are not as happy as people who are living close to nature.…”

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Multiple indices of body condition reveal no negative effect of urbanization in adult house sparrows

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Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major)

Growing in Cities: An Urban Penalty for Wild Birds? A Study of Phenotypic Differences between Urban and Rural Great Tit Chicks (Parus major)

Impacts of urbanisation level and distance from potential natural mosquito breeding habitats on the abundance of canine dirofilariosis

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