Bird beta-diversity of tree plantations and natural forests immersed within a grassy landscape in southern Brazil

Pezda, Angelo Marcon; Jacoboski, Lucilene Inês; Luza, André Luís; Hartz, Sandra Maria

doi:10.1007/s43388-021-00064-z

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“…This could have resulted from both deterministic and stochastic processes; in the first case, it would have been due to habitat properties [ 10 ], and in the second case, because of local colonization or the absence of specific species [ 21 ]. It could have been due to the effect of resource competition between similar species, because paired and reference sites were similar in habitats ( Table A1 and Table A2 ); therefore, differences in environmental suitability may have been an unlikely reason for species turnover in the study system [ 46 ]. These results imply the important role of niche-based assembly processes in driving bird communities across multiple habitats [ 47 ].…”

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Plant Invasion-Induced Habitat Changes Impact a Bird Community through the Taxonomic Filtering of Habitat Assemblages

Grzędzicka

2024

Animals

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Describing the spatial distribution of communities is crucial to understanding how environmental disturbance can affect biodiversity. Agricultural lands are susceptible to disturbances of anthropogenic origin and have been identified as ecosystems of conservation concern. Such lands are vulnerable to invasions by anthropogenically introduced non-native plants disturbing habitats. This research focused on the invasion-induced taxonomic filtering of birds with shared habitat requirements. The birds were surveyed along a gradient of invasion-altered areas (far from the invasion, uninvaded although susceptible to invaders, and invaded) to identify changes in bird assemblages (ground/herb dwellers, bush foragers, ecotone birds, and tree foragers) caused by this disturbance. Data were collected from 112 sites sampled in southeastern Poland. There were significantly fewer bird species from each assemblage on invaded sites than on uninvaded sites, although exposed to invasion, despite the decrease in the abundance of only ground/herb dwellers. Beta diversity analysis showed that sites with invasion contained bird communities significantly different from those at other sites. Invasion-induced changes resulted in a significant reduction in the diversity of ground/herb dwellers in comparison with uninvaded sites and created a distinctive bush bird assemblage. This was most likely due to the transformation of the grassland layer and the thickening of the shrub layer by plant invaders, which resemble shrubs in morphology. The results indicated the filtering effect of invasion on bird species composition at the level of two habitat assemblages despite the decreases in bird abundance and species diversity of the whole community.

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Plant Invasion-Induced Habitat Changes Impact a Bird Community through the Taxonomic Filtering of Habitat Assemblages

Grzędzicka

2024

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“…Urban Blue-Green Spaces. Trough a review of the literature [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] and consultation with experts, four criterion layers were identifed, including visual psychology, ecological function, aesthetic function, and service efect, encompassing a total of 36 indicators as the preliminary selection of LEH evaluation indicators for urban blue-green spaces.…”

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Assessment of Urban Blue-Green Space Landscape Ecological Health Based on the GST-AHP-TOPSIS Composite Model

Cheng,

2024

Health & Social Care in the Community

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The urban blue-green space landscape ecology is an important component that supports the urban landscape ecosystem. In this study, a combination model of the grey system theory (GST), analytic hierarchy process (AHP), and technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) was used to construct criteria layers from the following four aspects: green space vegetation coverage, ecosystem diversity, air and water quality, social participation, and health. The GST method was employed to screen evaluation indicators, the AHP method was used to calculate the weight of each indicator, and finally, TOPSIS was applied for weighted ranking to verify the scientific and rationality of the evaluation system. The results indicated the following: (1) out of 36 indicator factors, 10 were not selected through the GST method; (2) the weight ranking of the criteria layer was as follows, from highest to lowest: D2 ecosystem diversity 0.4816 > D1 green space vegetation coverage 0.2608 > D3 air and water quality 0.1864 > D4 social participation and health 0.0713; and (3) the relative closeness and ranking of different regions in Jinan city were as follows: Da Ming Hu area > Shan Da Lu area > Gu Cheng area > Shang Bu area. This study can help avoid decision-making errors caused by subjective factors and provide new approaches for the assessment of the ecological health of urban blue-green space landscapes.

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Birds of the Campos Sulinos

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Dias,

Fontana

2023

South Brazilian Grasslands

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Bird beta-diversity of tree plantations and natural forests immersed within a grassy landscape in southern Brazil

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

Plant Invasion-Induced Habitat Changes Impact a Bird Community through the Taxonomic Filtering of Habitat Assemblages

Plant Invasion-Induced Habitat Changes Impact a Bird Community through the Taxonomic Filtering of Habitat Assemblages

Assessment of Urban Blue-Green Space Landscape Ecological Health Based on the GST-AHP-TOPSIS Composite Model

Birds of the Campos Sulinos

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