SynthesisNature communications2015
Increased tolerance to humans among disturbed wildlife.
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76 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Same species, different risks: predation shapes hormonal profiles in a breeding sea duck, the common eider.Conservation physiology · 2026Article
- Escape response and perch-site choice in shrikes: effects of human disturbance in Europe and Southeast Asia.PeerJ · 2026Article
- Urbanization Facilitates Bullfrog Invasion Success and Exacerbates Native Amphibian Declines: A Natural Experiment From the COVID-19 Lockdown.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Human vocalizations impact skink risk assessment depending on human exposure.Current zoology · 2025Article
- Integrating spatial and behavioral data provides comprehensive assessment of grizzly bear-ecotourism coexistence in Nuxalk Territory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Species' urbanization time but not present urban tolerance predicts avian fear responses towards human.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Do Peri-Urban Areas Act as Refuges for the European Rabbit (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Urban coyote spatiotemporal overlap with humans is associated with environmental characteristics not human sociodemographics.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Birds of a Feather Resist Together: Sociality and Species Predict the Resilience and Recovery Strategies of Two Neotropical Birds.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The influence of human presence and footprint on animal space use in US national parks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Intraguild competition mediates human avoidance in an endangered African large carnivore.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Higher Sex-Reversal Rate of Urban Frogs in a Common-Garden Experiment Suggests Adaptive Microevolution.Evolutionary applications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Human disturbance drives the decline of many species, both directly and indirectly. Nonetheless, some species do particularly well around humans. One mechanism that may explain coexistence is the degree to which a species tolerates human disturbance. Here we provide a comprehensive meta-analysis of birds, mammals and lizards to investigate species tolerance of human disturbance and explore the drivers of this tolerance in birds. We find that, overall, disturbed populations of the three major taxa are more tolerant of human disturbance than less disturbed populations. The best predictors of the direction and magnitude of bird tolerance of human disturbance are the type of disturbed area (urbanized birds are more tolerant than rural or suburban populations) and body mass (large birds are more tolerant than small birds). By identifying specific features associated with tolerance, these results guide evidence-based conservation strategies to predict and manage the impacts of increasing human disturbance on birds.
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