English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Research in urban ecology is growing rapidly in response to the exponential growth of the urban environment.\udHowever, few studies have focused on tropical megacities, and on the interplay between predators’ habitat selection\udand human socio-economic aspects, which may mediate their resilience and coexistence with humans. We examined\udmechanisms of breeding habitat selection by a synanthropic raptor, the Black Kite Milvus migrans, in Delhi (India)\udwhere kites mainly subsist on: (1) human refuse and its associated prey-fauna, and (2) ritualised feeding of kites,\udparticularly practised by Muslims. We used mixed effects models to test the effect of urban habitat configuration and\udhuman practices on habitat selection, site occupancy and breeding success. Kite habitat decisions, territory occupancy\udand breeding success were tightly enmeshed with human activities: kites preferred areas with high human density, poor\udwaste management and a road configuration that facilitated better access to resources provided by humans, in particular\udto Muslim colonies that provided ritual subsidies. Furthermore, kites bred at ‘clean’ sites with less human refuse\udonly when close to Muslim colonies, suggesting that the proximity to ritual-feeding sites modulated the suitability of\udother habitats. Rather than a nuisance to avoid, as previously portrayed, humans were a keenly-targeted foraging\udresource, which tied a predator’s distribution to human activities, politics, history, socio-economics and urban planning\udat multiple spatio-temporal scales. Many synurbic species may exploit humans in more subtle and direct ways than\udwas previously assumed, but uncovering them will require greater integration of human socio-cultural estimates in urban ecological researchPeer reviewe

urban ecosystems

Habitat selection by an avian top predator in the tropical megacity of Delhi: human activities and socio-religious practices as prey-facilitating tools