ArticleAmbio2021
Modification of the third phase in the framework for vertebrate species persistence in urban mosaic environments.
Article in Ambio, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Downtown diet: a global meta-analysis of increased urbanization on the diets of vertebrate predators.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Resource use and associated energy expenditure of African crowned eagles (Conservation physiology · 2026Article
- Contrasting morphometric responses to increasing urbanisation in congeneric sparrow species.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Erratum issued
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31 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Urbanisation is rapidly transforming natural landscapes with consequences for biodiversity. Little is documented on the response of African wildlife to urbanisation. We reviewed case studies of vertebrate species' responses to urbanisation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to determine trends. Connected habitat mosaics of natural and anthropogenic green spaces are critical for urban wildlife persistence. We present a novel modification to the final of three phases of the framework described by Evans et al. (2010), which documents this sequence for vertebrate species persistence, based on the perspective of our research. Species in suburbia exhibit an initial phase where behavioural and ecological flexibility, life-history traits and phenotypic plasticity either contribute to their success, or they stay at low numbers. Where successful, the next phase is a rapid increase in populations and distribution; anthropogenic food resources and alternate breeding sites are effectively exploited. The modified third phase either continues to spread, plateau or decline.
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