The Feeder Effect
The Feeder Effect
What All That Food Can Do
The popularity of wild bird feeding has introduced enormous amounts of additional food into the ecosystem, especially in urban areas. Significantly, all of this food is supplementary to the natural diet of the birds consuming it. For this reason, bird feeding has been likened to a supplementary feeding experiment on a global scale yet with no clear expectations of possible outcomes. This chapter investigated the likely consequences of this situation.
Keywords: Supplementary feeding, Feeders, Birdseed, Urban ecology
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