The extended avian urban phenotype: anthropogenic solid waste pollution, nest design, and fitness
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Elsevier
Materia
Urbanisation Plastic pollution Nest Reproductive success Human presence Solid waste
Date
2022-05-18Referencia bibliográfica
Zuzanna Jagiello... [et al.]. The extended avian urban phenotype: anthropogenic solid waste pollution, nest design, and fitness, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 838, Part 2, 2022, 156034, ISSN 0048-9697, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156034]
Patrocinador
Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) PPN/IWA/2019/1/00070 PPN/IWA/2019/1/00069; Polish National Science Centre (NCN) 2014/14/E/NZ8/00386 2016/21/B/NZ8/03082; Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) scholarship "START"Résumé
Solid waste pollution (garbage discarded by humans, such as plastic, metal, paper) has received increased attention
given its importance as a global threat to biodiversity. Recent studies highlight how animals incorporate anthropogenic
materials into their life-cycle, for example in avian nest construction. While increasingly monitored in natural
areas, the influence of solid waste pollution on wildlife has been seldomexplored in the urban habitat. There is limited
data on the relationship between anthropogenic solid waste pollution, nest design, and reproductive success in an
urban context.We address this knowledge gap (i) by investigating the presence of environmental solid waste pollution
in the breeding habitats of great tits Parus major and blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus reproducing in a gradient of urbanisation,
and (ii) by quantifying (ii) the contribution of different anthropogenic materials in their nests. We further examine
potential drivers of solid waste pollution by inferring three distinct properties of the urban space:
environmental solid waste pollution on the ground, human presence, and the intensity of urbanisation (e.g impervious
surfaces) in nestbox vicinity. Finally, (iii) we explore the relationship between anthropogenic nest materials and reproductive
success. We found that environmental solid waste pollution was positively associated with human presence
and urbanisation intensity. There was also a positive relationship between increased human presence and the amount
of anthropogenicmaterials in great tit nests. Interestingly, in both species, anthropogenic nest materials covaried negatively
with nest materials of animal origin (fur and feathers).We suggest that fur and feathers – key insulating materials
in nest design – may be scarcer in areas with high levels of human presence, and are consequently replaced with
anthropogenic nest materials. Finally, we report a negative relationship between anthropogenic nest materials and
blue tit reproductive success, suggesting species-specific vulnerability of urban birds to solid waste pollution.