On Public Influence on People's Interactions with Ordinary Biodiversity.

ABSTRACT: Besides direct impacts of urban biodiversity on local ecosystem services, the contact of city dwellers with urban nature in their everyday life could increase their awareness on conservation issues. In this paper, we focused on a particularly common animal urban species, the feral pigeon Columba livia. Through an observational approach, we examined behavioral interactions between city dwellers and this species in the Paris metropolis, France. We found that most people (mean: 81%) do not interact with pigeons. Further, interactions (either positive or negative) are context and age-dependent: children interact more than adults and the elderly, while people in tourist spots interact more than people in urban parks or in railway stations, a result that suggests that people interacting with pig

SUBMITTER: Skandrani Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4495921 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature