Life in a polluted world: A global review of anthropogenic materials in bird nests

Jagiełło, Zuzanna; Dylewski, Łukasz; Tobółka, Marcin; Aguirre, José I.

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2019.05.028

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“…In avian taxa, the incorporation of durable anthropogenic nest materials (hereafter called 'debris') into nests may be considered a consequence of human activities (Wang et al 2009;Lee et al 2015). This is consistent with the fact that in an environment with greater human activity, as measured by the HFI, where the probability of debris incorporation into nests is higher (Jagiello et al 2019), birds incorporate debris intentionally perhaps as a result of scarcity of natural nest materials in human-impacted environments (Antczak et al 2010;Lee et al 2015;Reynolds et al 2019), ectoparasite defence (Suárez-Rodríguez et al 2012), or signal to conspecifics (Sergio et al 2011).…”

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“…One of these tools is the Human Footprint Index (HFI) which is a proxy for human population density, settlements, crop/pasture land, roads, and other access points, night-time lights, and incorporates factors such as the size and remoteness of a given area (Sanderson et al 2002;Venter et al 2016;Jones et al 2018). Human Footprint Index is a global map, a dataset of 1-km indexed grid cells which covers all continents except Antarctica and remote islands (Sanderson et al 2002;Jagiello et al 2019).…”

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Distance to landfill and human activities affects the debris incorporation into the white stork nests in urbanized landscape in central Spain

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López‐García

Aguirre

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Human's activities dominates many aspects of the Earth's environment; thus animals are forced to adapt and respond to the resulting changes in habitat structure and functioning due to anthropogenic pressure. Along with the growing human population and the associated amount of waste produced, the amount of different type of physical contamination component in environment is increasing. Incorporation of debris in nests may be a mounting avian response to anthropogenic pollution. In this research, we quantified the constituent pieces and total mass of human-derived materials incorporated in white stork nests. The study was conducted on four locations in central Spain where white storks nest along a urbanization gradient. In total, we examined 49 nests. This study demonstrates that the incorporation of debris by white storks into their nests is related to human activity, measured by the Human Footprint Index (HFI). Moreover, the distance between these nests and landfills predicts the occurrence of debris incorporated into nests. Our study shows that birds nest building behaviour is impacted by human activities and pollution in environment.

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Distance to landfill and human activities affects the debris incorporation into the white stork nests in urbanized landscape in central Spain

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López‐García

Aguirre

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“…Although plastics present valuable functional advantages, like low cost, versatile design, and light weight, it also has a number of negative features, such as freshwater pollution [4] and ocean pollution [5]. Over 90% of plastics are made from fossil resources, which have a high impact on greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other serious adverse effects on the environment [6,7].…”

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Active Packaging—Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Films Enriched with Tomato By-Products Extract

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Active films were prepared from poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) blended with itaconic acid (Ia), and with chitosan (Ch), enriched with tomato processing by-products extract (TBE) in order to develop new bioactive formulations for food packaging. The effects of two biopolymers (Ch, Ia) and of the incorporated TBE—containing phenolic compounds and carotenoids—were studied regarding the physical and antimicrobial properties of films; in addition, their influence on the total phenolic content, viscosity, and flow behavior on the film-forming solutions was investigated. The results showed increased physical properties (diameter, thickness, density, weight) of the films containing the TBE versus their control. TBE and Ch conferred significant antimicrobial effects to PVA films toward all the tested microorganisms, whereas the best inhibition was registered against S. aureus and P. aeruginosa, with a minimum inhibitory concentration of <0.078 mg DW/mL. The Ia-PVA films also exhibited some antibacterial activity against P. aeruginosa (2.5 mg DW/mL). The total phenolic content of the film-forming solutions presented the highest values for the TBE and Ch-added PVA samples (0.208 mg gallic acid/100 mL film-forming solution). These results suggest that the PVA + Ch film containing TBE can be used for the development of intelligent and active food packaging materials.

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“…A. Farah, K. Ulate, A. Hernández, S. Solano and S. Stephens provided insightful comments that helped improved previous versions of the manuscript. In memoriam of Prof. Óscar Ramírez-Alán (1976-2019.…”

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“…Some authors have suggested that the incorporation of plastic debris in nests is correlated with de degree of human disturbance, for example urbanization, which increases the amount of solid wastes in the environment (Jagiello, López-García, Aguirre, & Dylewski, 2020). For example , Jagiello Dylewski, Tobolka, and Aguirre (2019), reported that the incorporation of plastic debris in white storks' nests in Spain is associated with human activity. They found a correlation between plastic debris in nests and the closeness from landfills.…”

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Anthropogenic materials used by birds to nest in an urban landscape of Costa Rica

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Sánchez-Vargas

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Throughout the Anthropocene, urbanization has changed the environment for birds, modifying the types and abundance of available materials to build their nests. Discarded plastics and other anthropogenic materials are very abundant in urbanized and agricultural areas and are being used by birds to build nests, constituting a potential threat to them. Objective: To evaluate the materials used for several species of birds living in an urbanized environment. Methods: We evaluated the composition of 20 nests of several species of birds found in the campus of Universidad Nacional. Results: 52.6% of nests contained some sort of waste classified in 13 types of anthropogenic materials, where the most common were wool, strings and thread. The species with the highest percentage of nest weight comprised by anthropogenic material was Campylorhynchus rufinucha Conclusions: Our results demonstrates the widespread use of anthropogenic waste as nesting material.

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Life in a polluted world: A global review of anthropogenic materials in bird nests

Cited by 94 publications

References 48 publications

Distance to landfill and human activities affects the debris incorporation into the white stork nests in urbanized landscape in central Spain

Distance to landfill and human activities affects the debris incorporation into the white stork nests in urbanized landscape in central Spain

Active Packaging—Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Films Enriched with Tomato By-Products Extract

Anthropogenic materials used by birds to nest in an urban landscape of Costa Rica

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