Habitat associations of British breeding farmland birds

Whittingham, Mark J.; Krebs, John R.; Swetnam, Ruth D.; Thewlis, Richard M.; Wilson, Jeremy D.; Freckleton, Robert P.

doi:10.1080/00063650802648150

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“…Similar results have been reported in California agroecosystems, where the tree rows at the edges of alfalfa crops significantly increased the avian richness [5]. Other studies support the relevance of isolated trees [64] and hedgerows as factors that favor bird diversity in agricultural landscapes [65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72]. Here, our findings further highlight the relevance of shrub hedgerows for bird communities, documenting the benefits to biodiversity Fig.…”

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Agricultural landscapes as habitat for birds in central Chile

Muñoz‐Sáez

Perez‐Quezada

Estades

2017

Rev. Chil. de Hist. Nat.

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Background: Understanding the role of agroecosystems as habitat for wildlife is crucial for long-term conservation planning, as different crop stratification and landscape elements can influence bird communities, which are also affected by seasonality. The goal of our study was to determine how agricultural landscapes varying in land cover characteristics affect bird richness and abundance. Bird surveys were conducted at 110 locations within agricultural landscapes in central Chile. The surveyed areas were characterized by land cover at two scales (50 and 500 m radii) through direct observation and photo-interpretation, during winter and spring seasons. Generalized Linear Mixed Models were used to evaluate the effects of different agricultural land covers on bird species and communities. Results: Our results show that birds were more abundant during winter, in particular for insectivorous and granivorous birds, and that bird species richness was significantly increased due to cover provided by hedgerows at the plot scale. Conclusions: We found that abundance of some bird species in agroecosystems in central Chile was higher in winter than in spring, and that overall bird richness was favored by structural diversity including non-crop structures such as hedgerows, which thus may be relevant for improving bird conservation management in temperate agroecosystems. Our results suggest that native vegetation proximity and area may affect seasonal changes in bird communities at larger scales, relationships which warrant further study.

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Section: Land Cover Effectsupporting

confidence: 77%

Agricultural landscapes as habitat for birds in central Chile

Muñoz‐Sáez

Perez‐Quezada

Estades

2017

Rev. Chil. de Hist. Nat.

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“…Corn Buntings and Reed Buntings. In previous papers that have described bird-habitat relationships in agricultural areas, ditches, trees and hedgerows have been identified as important factors affecting the number of birds nesting in the uncultivated fields (Parish et al 1995, Stoate et al 2001, Vickery et al 2004, Surmacki 2005a, Whittingham et al 2009). Lack of a significant effect of these landscape features on the majority of species using fields in the present study indicates that herbaceous, ruderal vegetation growing on abandoned crop fields has created suitable breeding habitat for many bird species, including those that more typically use shrubs and trees as nest sites.…”

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Effect of boundary vegetation and landscape features on diversity and abundance of breeding bird communities of abandoned crop fields in southwest Poland

Orłowski

2010

Bird Study

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“…For example, the presence of many species within agricultural landscapes is restricted to such non-cropped, linear elements (Grashof-Bokdam and Van Langevelde 2005, Kleijn and Van Langevelde 2006), especially when agricultural land use is intensive (Kleijn et al 2001, Weibull et al 2000. These linear elements may act as corridors as well as habitat for many species, including plants, small mammals and birds (Fitzgibbon 1997, Hinsley and Bellamy 2000, Haddad et al 2003, Whittingham et al 2005, 2009, Gelling et al 2007, Wehling and Diekmann 2008.…”

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Modelling the effect of intersections in linear habitat on spatial distribution and local population density

Langevelde

Grashof-Bokdam²

2011

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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Many species in human-dominated landscapes find their habitat in linear elements, such as road verges, hedgerows and ditches. Local concentrations of species have been observed in the intersections of linear elements, but their spatial distribution and local population density in this linear habitat are not well captured by existing theory. Using a simple, spatially explicit individual-based GIS-model simulating hedgerow bird species with different movement abilities, local high population density of our model species in intersections and their reduced density or absence in linear habitat could be explained by limited movement. We hypothesise that, for species with low movement ability, intersections of linearly shaped habitat could contain several local populations. We argue that these predictions are valid for organisms occurring in linear habitat with limited movement relative to the dimensions of their habitat, and whose movement is directed by their habitat. Our findings support the importance of intersections for biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes, as they may serve as refuges from which individuals can (re-)colonise unoccupied habitat.

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Habitat associations of British breeding farmland birds

Cited by 32 publications

References 38 publications

Agricultural landscapes as habitat for birds in central Chile

Agricultural landscapes as habitat for birds in central Chile

Effect of boundary vegetation and landscape features on diversity and abundance of breeding bird communities of abandoned crop fields in southwest Poland

Modelling the effect of intersections in linear habitat on spatial distribution and local population density

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