Combining habitat requirements of endemic bird species and other ecosystem services may synergistically enhance conservation efforts

Brambilla, Mattia; Ilahiane, Luca; Assandri, Giacomo; Ronchi, Silvia; Bogliani, Giuseppe

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.203

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“…See Figure 2 for predictor estimates and confidence intervals particularly how conserving a diversity of bird functions also benefit human well-being. Our study demonstrates the interest of using new, exploratory indices of bird cultural significance, such as song or visual attractiveness, in studies of bird responses to vineyard management (Blackburn et al, 2014;Brambilla, Ilahiane, et al, 2017).…”

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“…More generally, the long-term decline of insectivorous birds in vineyards is directly related to the loss of semi-natural grasslands and crop intensification (Bowler et al, 2019). Birds provide multiple ecosystem services to viticulture, including biological control of insects and weeds (Whelan et al, 2015), as well as cultural values (Brambilla, Ilahiane, et al, 2017;Cumming & Maciejewski, 2017). As a result, conserving functionally diverse bird assemblages in vineyards is becoming critical, given the social and economic importance of this permanent crop production under Mediterranean-type climates (Muñoz-Sáez et al, 2020;Paiola et al, 2020).…”

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Organic management and landscape heterogeneity combine to sustain multifunctional bird communities in European vineyards

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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1. Conserving functionally diverse bird communities in European farmland is becoming critical, with no exception for regions of wine production. Management intensification combined with the loss of semi-natural habitats in wine-growing landscapes has led to a long-term decline not only in birds of conservation concern but also in once common insectivores and seed eaters. These declines are expected not only to threaten key ecological services provided by vineyard birds, such as pest or weed control, but also their cultural significance.2. We analysed how organic management and landscape heterogeneity affected taxonomic and functional diversity of 334 bird communities from 12 regions of the three main wine-producing European countries (France, Italy and Spain). We further modelled the responses of community-level metrics measuring mean habitat specialization and bird song attractiveness to humans, as well as cumulative abundances of functional insectivores, seed and grape eaters to account for individual avian functions.3. We found that organic viticulture enhanced bird functional diversity and individual functions, but that its positive effect partially depended on grass cover management in the inter-rows and landscape heterogeneity. Woodland cover and landscape compositional heterogeneity increased both taxonomic and functional diversity of bird communities, as well as functional insectivory. Landscape

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Organic management and landscape heterogeneity combine to sustain multifunctional bird communities in European vineyards

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“…Based on DEM data and ArcGIS 10.2, the experiment extracted the river network of Jinghe Basin and divided the sub-basins of Jinghe Basin. The specific steps are as follows: 1 use the fill tool of ArcGIS to fill the DEM, 2 use the flow direction tool of ArcGIS to extract the water flow direction, 3 use the flow accumulation tool of ArcGIS to calculate the basin accumulation, 4 use the raster calculator tool of ArcGIS to obtain the river network of the basin, 5 use the stream link tool of ArcGIS to capture the river pour point, and 6 use the watershed tool of ArcGIS to divide the basin.…”

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“…The sub-basins No. [3][4][5][6][7][8] and No.10-15 had steep slopes. The land-use types were mainly grassland and cultivated land with low vegetation coverage.…”

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“…Soil conservation service refers to the erosion control ability of the ecosystem to prevent soil loss and to store sediment and belongs to the scope of regulation services. The assessment of soil conservation services is often based on the revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE) [5][6][7][8][9]. The RUSLE model is an empirical slope soil erosion prediction model formed by a large number of soil erosion experiments and quantitative observation data, and on this basis, many scholars have applied this model in a lot of research on soil erosion [10][11][12].…”

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Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Characteristics and Spatial Flow Process of Soil Conservation Service in Jinghe Basin of China

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The supply and demand of ecosystem services and their mutual feedback are important for the formulation of basin ecological environmental policies. Simulation of the spatial flow of ecosystem services can clarify the division of areas and can support policy development. This paper takes the Jinghe Basin in the Loess Plateau of China as the case-study area to simulate the spatial flow of soil conservation service on different scales. The results showed that (1) soil erosion situations in Jinghe Basin improved overall, with a trend of first aggravating and then recovering between 2005 and 2015; (2) the amount of annual soil conservation in the basin accounted for more than 75% of the potential soil erosion and showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing; and (3) using digital elevation model (DEM) data and ArcGIS software, the experiment divided the basin into sub-basins (58 in total) and hydrological response units (HRUs) (e.g., 2181 HRUs in sub-basin #1), which were used to quantify the spatial flow direction and the corresponding amount of soil conservation service on the “HRU—river-sub-basin” scale. The divided supply and demand helped quantify the spatial flow pattern of soil conservation services from HRU to the sub-basin.

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Ground greening in vineyards promotes the Woodlark Lullula arborea and their invertebrate prey

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Combining habitat requirements of endemic bird species and other ecosystem services may synergistically enhance conservation efforts

Cited by 19 publications

References 76 publications

Organic management and landscape heterogeneity combine to sustain multifunctional bird communities in European vineyards

Organic management and landscape heterogeneity combine to sustain multifunctional bird communities in European vineyards

Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Characteristics and Spatial Flow Process of Soil Conservation Service in Jinghe Basin of China

Ground greening in vineyards promotes the Woodlark Lullula arborea and their invertebrate prey

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