Do more birds mean more bird-aircraft collisions? A meta-analysis testing a key wildlife management tenet

• Shane Guenin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: guenins@purdue.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0327-4261

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• Yue Liu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Bradley F. Blackwell,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation APHIS - Wildlife Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Sandusky, Ohio, United States of America

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• Travis L. DeVault,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Esteban Fernández-Juricic

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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