Domestic cats were never detected during predator surveys in the third
suburban study site, Bethesda.
The main determining factor was predation, which accounted for 79 percent of juvenile catbird deaths within the team's three
suburban study sites.
Not exact matches
«Alarming number of fledgling,
suburban catbirds fall prey to domestic cats,
study finds,» reads the headline of the most recent version — posted not on the SMBC
site, but as a feature story on Science at the Smithsonian, «a new Website from the Smithsonian Office of Public Affairs.»
Neal, the ultimate puzzle for me in
studies purporting to show that there is no urbanization impact in temperature averages that include airports, urban and
suburban sites is that: (1) we know through direct measurement that there is at present substantial UHI in many
sites (although the UHI is a product of many factors and population is only a proxy.