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@article{Beckerman2007UrbanBD,
  title={Urban bird declines and the fear of cats},
  author={Andrew P. Beckerman and Mike Boots and Kevin J. Gaston},
  journal={Animal Conservation},
  year={2007},
  volume={10},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:27476928}
}

It is shown that low predation rates in urban areas do not necessarily equate with a correspondingly low impact of cats on birds, and sub‐lethal effects may depress bird populations to such an extent that lowpredation rates simply reflect low prey numbers.

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