Wild bird feeding often results in high densities of birds, potentially facilitating transmission
of disease. Wild birds are major reservoirs of many zoonotic diseases, and although a …

Provision of supplementary food for wild birds at garden feeding stations is a common, large-
scale and year-round practice in multiple countries including Great Britain (GB). While these …

The influence of supplementary feeding of wildlife on disease transmission and its
consequent impacts on population dynamics are underappreciated. In Great Britain …

Anthropogenic food provisioning of wildlife can alter the frequency of contacts among hosts
and between hosts and environmental sources of pathogens. Despite the popularity of …

Animals inhabiting urban areas often experience elevated disease threats, putatively due to
factors such as increased population density and horizontal transmission or decreased …

Among the most popular reasons that people feed wild birds is that they want to help birds.
The extent to which supplemental food helps birds, however, is not well established. From …

The practice of feeding wild birds is a widespread phenomenon, but there has been little
consideration of both human and ecological dimensions of the impacts. We used a …

Understanding normal movement patterns and husbandry practices of poultry production
systems is important for understanding the dynamics of disease spread, and for controlling …

Food provisioning can change wildlife pathogen dynamics by altering host susceptibility via
nutrition and/or through shifts in foraging behavior and space use. We used the American …

Supplemental feeding can increase the overall health of animals but also can have varying
consequences for animals dealing with parasites. Furthermore, the mechanism mediating …