Communities of woody vegetation and wood destroying fungi in natural and semi-natural forests of kyiv city, Ukraine

Blinkova, Olena; Ivanenko, Oksana

doi:10.1515/forj-2017-0030

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“…1). Residents of neighbouring microdistricts use them extensively for recreation, as a result of which plots of vegetation regression stages 3 and 4 are registered here (Blinkova and Ivanenko, 2018). In the 1970s and 80s, most forest parks in Kyiv were protected as a biodiversity reserve (Natural Reserve Fund of Ukraine 2009).…”

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“…The material was collected in the nesting period (May-June). The number and distribution of birds were determined by the method of transect counts (Bibby et al, 2000) with a transect width of 100 m. The length of the transect was 1.0-1.5 km, and their total length was about 25 km. In small forest parks, the transect length was limited by the length of the forest area.…”

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Nesting Bird Communities of Urban Forest Parks Suffer from Recreational Load (on the Example of Kyiv, Ukraine)

Shupova¹,

Gaychenko²,

Raichuk³

2023

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The urban environment has a complex effect on the forest diversity. Birds are a suitable object for diagnostic of ecosystem disturbances. The urban recreation load in forest parks was estimated using the author's methodology according to the total points. To analyze the urban recreation load, we took the characteristics of the forest park and the surrounding landscapes, which are important for the birds' life, the nesting result, and stable population maintenance: the share of urbanized territory; the share of the territory with unorganized recreation; forest park attendance; the presence of freely rambling pets. The number and distribution of birds were determined by registrations of birds along transects in May-June 2017 and 2018. From 30 to 54 bird species nest in each forest park with an average density of from 1.6 (SD: 0.4) to 3.8 (SD: 0.9) pairs/ha. Parus major L., Fringilla coelebs L., Turdus merula L., sometimes Sturnus vulgaris L., Erithacus rubecula L., Turdus pilaris L. are dominant in communities. Urban recreation load leads to a change in the bird nesting strategy, the composition of their communities contributes to the extinction of non-synanthropized species, reduces the abundance of ground-nesters. This leads to a decrease in the number of their populations and some species impoverishment. The synanthropy index of nesting bird communities was from 0.38 to 0.57. A positive correlation between the urban recreation load and the synanthropy index (0.75), Berger-Parker index (0.40), a relative abundance of hollow nesters (0.59), and a negative correlation with the abundance of ground nesters (-0.59) were revealed. To minimize the negative impact of the recreational load on bird communities, to preserve vulnerable species at nesting and maintain the species diversity of avifauna, it is necessary to create areas in forest parks protected from hiking, display in geducational advertising on the importance of preserving animals and their habitats

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Nesting Bird Communities of Urban Forest Parks Suffer from Recreational Load (on the Example of Kyiv, Ukraine)

Shupova¹,

Gaychenko²,

Raichuk³

2023

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“…10), то есть подтверждают данные индекса Бергера-Паркера. Несмотря на то, что тип леса на (Rabotnov, 1992;Lavrov et al, 2016 а;Blinkova & Ivanenko 2018). В селитебной зоне парки лесного типа являются ядрами среды обитания животных, условия которых приближены к природным.…”

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Transformation of the community of nesting birds in the process of reorganization of the forest ecosystem into a park

Gaychenko

Shupova²

2019

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Changes in nesting conditions cause a change in the number of individual species, ecological groups, and, consequently, the structure of the bird community. The purpose of the study is to analyze the possibilities and directions – the transformations of the communitys of nesting birds in the process of reorganization of the forest ecosystem into a park. The material was collected in the territory of one of the forest parks in the Kiev city. Forest is an mixed based on Quercus robur L., Carpinus betulus L., Acer platanoides L., Tilia cordata L., Fraxinus excelsior L. There are individual trees Pinus Syvestris L. The territory of the forest park have different degrees transformed, and includes anthropogenic landscapes and forests plots that have been preserved almost in their natural state. Studies were conducted in the nesting period (April-June) 2012–2017. For analysis average data were used. The number and distribution of the birds were determined by the method of counting on the transects, in the 3 model plots. There are 71 species of birds of 11 orders. Of these, 63 species are nesting. The number of nested species of communities in model plots does not depend on the gradient of anthropogenic transformation, but a average density of nesting birds decrease: 2.91±0.66→2.54±0.67→2.10±0.48 pairs / km of the transect. Nesting birds are distributed between 9 faunogenetic complexes. Of these, in each model plot is represented by 8. Dominated by birds of the European nemoral complex. On the gradient of habitat transformation, a change in the fauna-genetic structure of bird communities in the direction of increasing the proportion of birds of the European nemoral and European forest-steppe complexes, birds of desert-mountain and tropical groups. Boreal and ancient species are superseded. Strengthening the transformation in forest plots, the distribution of birds in community on the ecological groups does change not much. But when the forest ecosystem is replaced by a park ecosystem, the proportion of sclerophiles increases 3–4 times. In all communities is dominated by woody nesters bird. On the gradient of transformation, the number of species of the tree canopies nesters birds (from 21 to 18), ground nesters birds (from 6 to 0), species that use many types of nesting stations (from 4 to 1) are decreases; the number of bird species that nesting in the buildings increases from 0 to 6, and the number of alien species from 0 to 4 (Streptopelia decaocto, Dendrocopos syriacus, Phoenicurus ochruros, Serinus serinus). In the park ecosystems, a decrease in the species composition of woodpeckers, does not entail a significant decrease in the species composition and abundance of secondary hollows nesters birds. Birds of the synanthropic subpopulations are nesting in cavities in park buildings. Most of the indices show an equivalent ά-diversity of all bird communities. The β-diversity of breeding birds during the transformation of the forest ecosystem into a park is reduced by half. Ranked distribution curves of the abundance of species are indicate abrupt changes in the balance of dominance-diversity in communities when a transformation are in the forest ecosystem. The dominant species pressure high are give in community, its abundance is 2.2–2.7 times higher than the abundance of the second species by the abundance. In a slightly transformed forest, this indicator is 1.1 times. Ranked curves of relative abundance of species are a more sensitive index of community transformation than data of indices by the dominance and of species distribution. The introduction into the forest ecosystem of even a small number of anthropogenic structures leads to a significant increase in the relative abundance of synanthropic birds. In our study, in to 2 times. On the gradient of the transformation the absolute number of nesting species of the synanthropic birds increases gradually: 30–33–36; the obligate synanthropic species more stronger: 0–2–7; the index of community synanthropization increases 1.5 times: 0.63–0.72–0.92.

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“…Recreational activities in botanical gardens due to the large stream of holidaymakers are also one of the main anthropogenic factors. In order for studying biodiversity, it is relevant to research on consortium linkages as specific ecological phenomena (Lavrov & Blinkova,63 2018; Blinkova & Ivanenko, 2018). Consideration of the transformation of 'tree-birds' consortium linkages in increasing insight on anthropogenic changes in the condition, productivity and development of tree stands as well as the fulfillment of their target functions is at an early stage (Chaplygina et al, 2016).…”

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Syn-Ecological Connections and Comparison of Α-Diversity Indices of Plant and Bird Communities on Cultivated Coenosises

Blinkova

Shupova

Raichuk

2020

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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Changes in the ecological conditions of the cultivated coenosises caused by anthropogenic load have been shown by the example of several of the largest botanical gardens in Ukraine. That complex influence leads to the transformation of coenosises at stages II and III of anthropogenic degression. Changes in phyto- and avidiversity compositions have been shown using a transformation gradient. Positive correlations between compositions and diversity indices of bird communities and vegetation composition (diversity indices, dominance indices, evenness indices) have been detected. The values of the phytodiversity indices showed greater deviation from the normal conditions.

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Communities of woody vegetation and wood destroying fungi in natural and semi-natural forests of kyiv city, Ukraine

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Nesting Bird Communities of Urban Forest Parks Suffer from Recreational Load (on the Example of Kyiv, Ukraine)

Nesting Bird Communities of Urban Forest Parks Suffer from Recreational Load (on the Example of Kyiv, Ukraine)

Transformation of the community of nesting birds in the process of reorganization of the forest ecosystem into a park

Syn-Ecological Connections and Comparison of Α-Diversity Indices of Plant and Bird Communities on Cultivated Coenosises

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