City birds prefer rich...( ook at reproductive success in the park...)

ook at reproductive success in the parks. There may be something that's really influencing reproduction and that has an influence on the bird community," she said. "We'll look at food sources during the breeding season. What do people plant in their yards that birds eat when they breed? Maybe some neighborhoods are better than others for insects... we need to do arthropod surveys in these areas. Maybe it's water... dog dishes are important water sources for birds... maybe it's the distribution of dog dishes.

"We may not need to have all these absolute measures, but we need to learn fundamentally how these neighborhoods differ from each other," she said. "Cities are where people live now, and parks are going to provide their daily access to nature. We have to understand what kind of nature people will have in their parks, and what determines that."

The urban parks study is expected to continue for three more years, with periodic updates thereafter.

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Contact: James Hathaway
Hathaway@asu.edu
480-965-4823
Arizona State University
8-Aug-2002

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