ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2018
Feeder density enhances house finch disease transmission in experimental epidemics.
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- Age-dependent relationships among diet, body condition, and Echinococcus multilocularis infection in urban coyotes.PloS one · 2023Article
- Bird-feeder cleaning lowers disease severity in rural but not urban birds.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Host population dynamics in the face of an evolving pathogen.The Journal of animal ecology · 2021Article
- Faecal metabarcoding reveals pervasive long-distance impacts of garden bird feeding.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Characterizing trends in human-wildlife conflicts in the American Midwest using wildlife rehabilitation records.PloS one · 2020Article
- Integrating social behaviour, demography and disease dynamics in network models: applications to disease management in declining wildlife populations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Characterization of unilateral conjunctival inoculation with Mycoplasma gallisepticum in house finches.Avian pathology : journal of the W.V.P.A · 2018Article
- Health hazards to wild birds and risk factors associated with anthropogenic food provisioning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Human-nature interactions and the consequences and drivers of provisioning wildlife.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Feeder density enhances house finch disease transmission in experimental epidemics.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Anthropogenic food provisioning of wildlife can alter the frequency of contacts among hosts and between hosts and environmental sources of pathogens. Despite the popularity of garden bird feeding, few studies have addressed how feeders influence host contact rates and disease dynamics. We experimentally manipulated feeder density in replicate aviaries containing captive, pathogen-naive, groups of house finches (
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