Bird-feeder cleaning lowers disease severity in rural but not urban birds

Abstract Animals inhabiting urban areas often experience elevated disease threats, putatively due to factors such as increased population density and horizontal transmission or decreased immunity (e.g. due to nutrition, pollution, stress). However, for animals that take advantage of human food subsi...

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Main Authors: Laren Schaper, Pierce Hutton, Kevin J. McGraw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-92117-y