Bird communities in suburban patches near Paris: Determinants of local richness in a highly fragmented landscape

Birds are also sensitive to landscape composition and configuration within the city centre

“…The role of the vegetation is also known (Husté, Selmi, & Boulinier, 2006) but is always studied using a large urban gradient. We show here that within a very small part of this urban-rural gradient, i.e.…”

Dusting-off the file: A review of knowledge on urban ornithology in Latin America

“…However, in temperate zones and other tropical regions (i.e., Australia), the relative magnitude of the effects that landscape attributes have on bird diversity is negligible compared to that of site-specific attributes (Clergeau et al, 2001;Daniels and Kirkpatrick, 2006;Young et al, 2007;Evans et al, 2009). According to site-specific urban attributes, native, mature, and structurally diverse vegetation, less built-cover, and low abundance of exotic species, have been positively associated with native bird species richness and abundance within all regions (Munyenyembe et al, 1989;Lim and Sodhi, 2004;Chace and Walsh, 2006;Husté et al, 2006;Parsons et al, 2006;Murgui, 2007;Evans et al, 2009;Kath et al, 2009;Ortega-Álvarez and MacGregor-Fors, 2009). Nevertheless, different site-specific attributes are important for bird diversity among regions of the world with reduced nonconsumptive human activities being positively correlated with bird species richness in temperate and Latin American cities (Chace and Walsh, 2006;Ortega-Álvarez and MacGregor-Fors, 2009), while low abundance of aggressive competitors has been identified as crucial for maintaining high native bird diversity in tropical regions other than Latin American (i.e., Australia; Parsons et al, 2006;Kath et al, 2009).…”

Avian communities’ preferences in recently created agricultural wetlands in irrigated landscapes of semi-arid areas

“…Several studies have reported on the effects that this patchiness can have on bird communities in forest, riparian buffer, open water wetland and grassland patches (Gibbs 1993;Diaz et al 1998;Naugle et al 1999;Horn et al 2005;Davis et al 2006;Huste et al 2006;Scheffer et al 2006), but few have studied patchy reedbeds (Foppen et al 2000;Surmacki 2005;Paracuellos 2006). A few studies of large reedbeds ([10 ha) have addressed the question of how environmental variables affect the structure and composition of bird communities in Central Europe (Graveland 1998;Baldi and Kisbenedek 2000;Surmacki 2005;Baldi 2006;Trnka and Prokop 2006), and the Mediterranean region (Martinez-Vilalta et al 2002;.…”