Habitat selection by Skylarks<i>Alauda arvensis</i>wintering in Britain in 1997/98

Gillings, Simon; Fuller, Robert

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“…Many autecological studies have shown strong preferences for stubble fields in winter by the latter (e.g. Wilson et al 1996;Donald et al 2001b;Gillings & Fuller 2001;Moorcroft et al 2002). Interestingly, house sparrow, chaffinch and greenfinch (Carduelis chloris), showed a positive association with the availability of farmyards.…”

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“…In Britain, the 'national roll-out' of the new entry-level AES has the potential to provide beneficial resources on the national scale necessary to aid population recovery. This work suggests that if stubble areas can be increased from the current average of 3 ha per 1 km (Gillings & Fuller 2001) to 10 ha or more, then this should be sufficient to stem breeding population declines. Gillings & Fuller (2001) estimated that only 46% of stubbles were weedy and hence valuable as foraging habitat for birds.…”

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“…This work suggests that if stubble areas can be increased from the current average of 3 ha per 1 km (Gillings & Fuller 2001) to 10 ha or more, then this should be sufficient to stem breeding population declines. Gillings & Fuller (2001) estimated that only 46% of stubbles were weedy and hence valuable as foraging habitat for birds. If management options are developed to enhance weed abundance in stubbles, then the area required could be significantly reduced.…”

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“…It should be borne in mind that the area and spatial arrangement of food patches required may differ between species. Skylarks avoid small fields and hedgerows (Donald et al 2001a,b;Gillings & Fuller 2001) so stubble patches must be carefully sited if they are to be fully exploited by this species.…”

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Winter availability of cereal stubbles attracts declining farmland birds and positively influences breeding population trends

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Many studies have demonstrated the selection of stubble fields by farmland birds in winter, but none have shown whether provisioning of this key habitat positively influences national population trends for widespread farmland birds. We use two complementary extensive bird surveys undertaken at the same localities in summer and winter and show that the area of stubble in winter attracts increased numbers of several bird species of conservation concern. Moreover, for several farmland specialists, the availability of stubble fields in winter positively influenced the 10 year breeding population trend (1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003) whereas hedgerow bird species were less affected. For skylarks and yellowhammers, initially negative trends showed recovery with 10-20 ha of stubble per 1 km square. Thus, agri-environment schemes that promote retention of over-winter stubbles will attract birds locally and are capable of reversing current population declines if stubbles are available in sufficient quantity.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…Fuller et al, 2005aFuller et al, , 2007, identifying important areas for conservation (Buchanan et al, 2011), and assessing largescale spatial patterns of change in species distribution (Donald and Greenwood, 2001;Gaston and Blackburn, 2002). Other studies have focussed on individual species to investigate fine-scale habitat-based hypothesis (Donald and Evans, 1995;Gillings and Fuller, 2001), but most attempts to test relationships between land cover classifications and bird distribution or abundance have focussed on farmland birds (e.g. Gates and Donald, 2000;Siriwardena et al, 2000), which have long been a cause of conservation concern in Britain (Newton, 2004).…”

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Relationships between patterns of habitat cover and the historical distribution of the Marsh Tit, Willow Tit and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in Britain

Broughton

Hill

Hinsley

2013

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Spatial analysis of remotely-sensed land cover data in conjunction with species distribution atlases can reveal large-scale relationships between animal taxa and their habitats. We investigated the historical distribution patterns of three declining woodland birds, the Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris), Willow Tit (Poecile montana) and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos minor), in relation to a parsimonious landscape metric for describing habitat availability in Britain. Bird distributions were derived from two field-based atlas surveys, conducted in 1968-1972 and 1988-1991, and used to classify areas of the landscape for each species as retained, lost or gained between atlas periods, or unoccupied in both. We used remotely-sensed land cover data from 1990 to compare percentage habitat cover between landscape areas classified by bird occupation, and regional summary data from national woodland inventories to investigate changes in habitat cover and bird distributions.Percentage habitat cover was a sufficient landscape metric to explain the distribution pattern of all three bird species; habitat cover was greatest in areas where each species was retained between atlas surveys, significantly less in areas from which species were lost, and least in areas that remained unoccupied. Reductions in Marsh Tit distribution were less in regions Broughton et al. (2013) Ecological Informatics 14:25-30 2 that showed greater increases in habitat cover, but there was no such relationship for other species. Results indicated that spatial studies could be used to infer aspects of the spatial ecology of species where field data is lacking: by comparing distribution patterns with the relatively well-studied Marsh Tit, we found support for the assumption that the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker occupies very large territories in Britain, and provided evidence that the spatial habitat requirements of the Marsh Tit could be used as a proxy for the data-poor Willow Tit. The results showed that the habitat cover required to retain each species in the landscape had increased over time, illustrating how spatial studies can be used to identify priorities for further research and suggest conservation measures for declining species, and these are discussed.

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Habitat selection by SkylarksAlauda arvensiswintering in Britain in 1997/98

Cited by 33 publications

References 19 publications

Winter availability of cereal stubbles attracts declining farmland birds and positively influences breeding population trends

Winter availability of cereal stubbles attracts declining farmland birds and positively influences breeding population trends

Relationships between patterns of habitat cover and the historical distribution of the Marsh Tit, Willow Tit and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in Britain

Niche Opportunities and Introduced Birds

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