Impervious surface and heterogeneity are opposite drivers to maintain bird richness in a Cerrado city

Souza, Franco L.; Valente‐Neto, Francisco; Severo-Neto, Francisco; Bueno, Berinaldo; Ochoa-Quintero, José Manuel; Laps, Rudi Ricardo; Bolzan, Fábio; Roque, Fábio de Oliveira

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103643

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“…Humans also appreciate esthetic aspects of biodiversity in urban ecosystems (Belaire et al, 2015;Goodness et al, 2016) and prioritize visually pleasant species (Conway and Vander Vecht, 2015;Leveau, 2019;Schuetz and Johnston, 2019). For instance, humans usually value birds with brighter and more contrasting plumage (Belaire et al, 2015;Schuetz and Johnston, 2019), larger body size (Murgui and Hedblom, 2017;Schuetz and Johnston, 2019) and certain feeding habits (Souza et al, 2019). Thereby, birds connect humans with nature, shaping cultural identity (Cox et al, 2018;Soga and Gaston, 2020) and improve human mental health (Cox et al, 2017).…”

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“…The functional diversity of bird assemblages-measured by functional quadratic entropy-was 20% lower in highly urbanized areas compared to the surrounding natural habitats, driven by changes in species richness and evenness, leading to declines in functional redundancy (Sol et al, 2020). Even though frugivores and nectarivores provide essential ecosystem services, both are negatively affected by urbanization (Souza et al, 2019). If negative changes in functional diversity with increasing urbanization are also accompanied by the loss of cultural diversity (i.e., diversity of cultural values), extinctions of interaction between people and nature can accelerate a negative feedback loop and lead to further biodiversity loss.…”

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“…To better understand which functional traits (i.e., measurable characteristics of individuals) and cultural values that people attribute to birds are affected by urbanization, we also investigate the correlation between functional traits and cultural values along an urbanization gradient, weighted by species abundance. Urbanization affects abundance and behavior of native urban bird communities negatively and only a few urban exploiters thrive (e.g., Souza et al, 2019;Tryjanowski et al, 2020). Birds are also under artificial selection, which favors bird traits valued by humans.…”

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Loss of Cultural and Functional Diversity Associated With Birds Across the Urbanization Gradient in a Tropical City

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Birds provide many ecosystem services to people, including provisioning, regulating and cultural services. People attribute multiple cultural values to ecosystems and biodiversity and the diversity of these cultural values can be considered as cultural diversity. While human-nature interactions occur more frequently in cities and urbanization negatively affects different facets of avian biodiversity, little is known about its consequence for cultural diversity. Here, we assess how the urbanization gradient in Campo Grande, a Brazilian city in the Cerrado biodiversity hotspot, affects functional and cultural diversity associated with birds and if functional and cultural diversity are congruent. We also investigate the relation between urbanization gradient with functional traits and cultural values, weighted by species abundance. We used a dataset based on bird surveyed in 61 landscapes along a gradient of impervious surface cover. To estimate functional and cultural diversity, we used indices that estimate richness and divergence of functional traits and cultural values. We found that urbanization affected functional and cultural richness negatively, while there was no effect on functional and cultural divergence. Functional and cultural richness and functional and cultural divergence were weakly, but significantly correlated. Bird species that nest on trees decreased and those that nest in artificial structures and on the ground increased along the impervious surface gradient. Body size, diet, habitat, mating system, flock behavior, and all cultural values (number of times the species was mentioned by football teams, music or poetry, city flags and anthems, and folklore tales) were not significantly affected by impervious surface. The negative relationship between impervious surface and bird cultural richness may indicate that people living in more urbanized areas experience nature less compared to people in less urbanized areas, which can affect their psychological well-being. In these highly urbanized areas, contact with culturally valued birds and cultural services provided by birds may also diminish. The negative relationship between functional richness and urbanization also indicate that highly urbanized areas may be losing important ecosystems services provided by birds.

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“…Impervious surfaces have adverse effects on urban ecosystems, such as urban waterlogging and the heat island effect [ 4 ]. Although green spaces [ 5 ] and pervious pavement [ 6 ] are used widely to mitigate the adverse influences of impervious surfaces, biodiversity aboveground, including that of plants and birds, has declined with the increase in impervious surface areas in cities [ 7 , 8 ]. However, the effects of impervious surfaces on biodiversity underground, such as soil microbial diversity, are unclear.…”

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Pavement Overrides the Effects of Tree Species on Soil Bacterial Communities

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Human disturbance and vegetation are known to affect soil microorganisms. However, the interacting effects of pavement and plant species on soil bacterial communities have received far less attention. In this study, we collected soil samples from pine (Pinus tabuliformis Carr.), ash (Fraxinus chinensis), and maple (Acer truncatum Bunge) stands that grew in impervious, pervious, and no pavement blocks to investigate the way pavement, tree species, and their interaction influence soil bacterial communities by modifying soil physicochemical properties. Soil bacterial community composition and diversity were evaluated by bacterial 16S amplicon sequencing. The results demonstrated that soil bacterial community composition and diversity did differ significantly across pavements, but not with tree species. The difference in soil bacterial community composition across pavements was greater in pine stands than ash and maple stands. Soil bacterial diversity and richness indices decreased beneath impervious pavement in pine stands, and only bacterial richness indices decreased markedly in ash stands, but neither showed a significant difference across pavements in maple stands. In addition, bacterial diversity did not differ dramatically between pervious pavement and no pavement soil. Taken together, these results suggest that pavement overwhelmed the effects of tree species on soil bacterial communities, and had a greater effect on soil bacterial communities in pine stands, followed by ash and maple stands. This study highlights the importance of anthropogenic disturbance, such as pavement, which affects soil microbial communities.

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“…Moreover, birds respond to their environment differently at different spatial scales and hence different conservation plans are needed across scales (Wiens 1989;Zhang et al 2018). The surrounding environment tend to play a more important role at coarser scales as birds avoid areas highly disturbed by human activities (Si et al 2020), which often are a large component of landscape matrices (Herbert et al 2018;Souza et al 2019). However, the understanding of how landscape matrices affect bird diversity across spatial scales, in particular at coarse scales, is rather limited.…”

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Multiscale effects of habitat and surrounding matrices on waterbird diversity in the Yangtze River Floodplain

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Context With the expansion in urbanization, understanding how biodiversity responds to the altered landscape becomes a major concern. Most studies focus on habitat effects on biodiversity, yet much less attention has been paid to surrounding landscape matrices and their joint effects. Objective We investigated how habitat and landscape matrices affect waterbird diversity across scales in the Yangtze River Floodplain, a typical area with high biodiversity and severe human-wildlife conflict. Methods The compositional and structural features of the landscape were calculated at fine and coarse scales. The ordinary least squares regression model was adopted, following a test showing no significant spatial autocorrelation in the spatial lag and spatial error models, to estimate the relationship between landscape metrics and waterbird diversity. Results Well-connected grassland and shrub surrounded by isolated and regular-shaped developed area maintained higher waterbird diversity at fine scales. Regular-shaped developed area and cropland, irregular-shaped forest, and aggregated distribution of wetland and shrub positively affected waterbird diversity at coarse scales. Conclusions Habitat and landscape matrices jointly affected waterbird diversity. Regular-shaped developed area facilitated higher waterbird diversity and showed the most pronounced effect at coarse scales. The conservation efforts should not only focus on habitat quality and capacity, but also habitat connectivity and complexity when formulating development plans. We suggest planners minimize the expansion of the developed area into critical habitats and leave buffers to maintain habitat connectivity and shape complexity to reduce the disturbance to birds. Our findings provide important insights and practical measures to protect biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes.

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Impervious surface and heterogeneity are opposite drivers to maintain bird richness in a Cerrado city

Cited by 38 publications

References 49 publications

Loss of Cultural and Functional Diversity Associated With Birds Across the Urbanization Gradient in a Tropical City

Loss of Cultural and Functional Diversity Associated With Birds Across the Urbanization Gradient in a Tropical City

Pavement Overrides the Effects of Tree Species on Soil Bacterial Communities

Multiscale effects of habitat and surrounding matrices on waterbird diversity in the Yangtze River Floodplain

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