Urban specialization reduces habitat connectivity by a highly mobile wading bird.

Claire S TeitelbaumJeffrey Hepinstall-CymermanAnjelika Kidd-WeaverSonia M HernandezSonia AltizerRichard J Hall

Published in: Movement ecology (2020)

Habitat specialization in urban-acclimated wildlife could reduce the exchange of propagules and nutrients between urban and natural areas, which has consequences both for beneficial effects of connectivity such as gene flow and for detrimental effects such as the spread of contaminants or pathogens.

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