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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Utilisation of Anthropogenic Food by Red Foxes (

Jonathan W J Fletcher, Simon Tollington, Ruth Cox, Bryony A Tolhurst, Jason Newton, Rona A R McGill, Paul Cropper, Naomi Berry, Krishnaveni Illa, Dawn M Scott

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Molecular Evidence of the Role of the Red Fox (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Jonathan W J FletcherSchool of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences Nottingham Trent University Southwell UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4351-5488
Simon TollingtonSchool of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences Nottingham Trent University Southwell UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2450-7255
Ruth CoxNational Wildlife Management Centre, Animal and Plant Health Agency Gloucestershire UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9298-438X
Bryony A TolhurstSchool of Applied Sciences University of Brighton Brighton UK.
Jason NewtonNational Environmental Isotope Facility Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow Glasgow UK.
Rona A R McGillNational Environmental Isotope Facility Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow Glasgow UK.
Paul CropperAnimal and Plant Health Agency York UK.
Naomi BerryAnimal and Plant Health Agency York UK.
Krishnaveni IllaAnimal and Plant Health Agency York UK.
Dawn M ScottSchool of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences Nottingham Trent University Southwell UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dietary analyses utilising visual methods to identify stomach and faecal contents have shown that urban red foxes (

Indexed as

anthropogenicdietred foxstable isotope analysisurbanisationVulpes vulpes

Identifiers

PMID40027416
PMCPMC11868989

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