Category: Readings

As requested, the reading this week will be one of my papers. I thought I’d give you a work in progress – a paper currently accepted at Studies in Avian Biology but not in press yet. I am emailing a PDF of the paper to the regular reading group participants, but am happy to provide a copy to anyone else upon request.

Lepczyk, C. A., P. S. Warren, L. Machabée, A. P. Kinzig, A. Mertig. (accepted) Who feeds the birds? A comparison between Phoenix, Arizona and Southeastern Michigan. Studies in Avian Biology, edited series from Cooper Ornithological Society.

Note that this is the last meeting of the reading group for the Spring semester!

The reading for this week will be:

Salmon, M., R. Reiners, C. Lavin and J. Wyneken. Behavior of Loggerhead Sea Turtles on an Urban Beach. I. Correlates of Nest Placement Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Dec., 1995), pp. 560-567

A link to the article is here:

http://www.jstor.org.silk.library.umass.edu:2048/sici?sici=0022-1511(1995)29:4%3C560:BOLSTO%3E2.0.CO;2-&cookieSet=1

For more background information, here is a link to a related story in the magazine Biologist:

This week’s reading will examine effects of urbanization on behavior of lake-dwelling waterbirds. The article is: 

Traut, A. H., and M. E. Hostetler. 2003. Urban Lakes and Waterbirds: Effects of Development on Avian Behavior. Waterbirds 26:290-302

A link can be found at:

http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1675/1524-4695(2003)026%5B0290%3AULAWEO%5D2.0.CO%3B2?cookieSet=1

For this coming Tuesday Feb 17, Susannah Lerman will lead discussion of the following paper:

Croci, S., A. Butet, and P. Clergeau (2008) Does urbanization filter birds on the basis of their biological traits? The Condor 110(2):223-240.

A link to the article is available here:

http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1525/cond.2008.8409

Our first reading of the semester will be a recent review of wildlife diseases and urbanization:

Bradley, C. A. and S. Altizer (2007). “Urbanization and the ecology of wildlife diseases.” Trends In Ecology & Evolution 22(2): 95-102

A link to the article can be found at:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VJ1-4MCW9HX-2&_user=1516330&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000053443&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1516330&md5=f195bffe530177f9169e3b6adb194c65