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SUBMITTER: Plummer KE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6529538 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Plummer Kate E KE Risely Kate K Toms Mike P MP Siriwardena Gavin M GM
Nature communications 20190521 1
There is a multi-billion dollar global industry dedicated to feeding wild birds in residential gardens. This extraordinary boost to food resources is almost certainly reshaping entire bird communities, yet the large-scale, long-term impacts on community ecology remain unknown. Here we reveal a 40-year transformation of the bird communities using garden bird feeders in Britain, and provide evidence to suggest how this may have contributed to national-scale population changes. We find that increas ...[more]