Landscape and coloniality are robust predictors of White Stork nest habitat selection in a coastal urban environment

Hmamouchi, Mohamed-Jad; Agharroud, Kamal; Dahmani, Jamila; Hanane, Saâd

doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106835

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“…Spanish white stork population occupy more urbanized areas, similarly as it was previously shown in Morocco and Algeria (Hmamouchi et al, 2020;Chenchouni, 2017), in contrast to Polish population, where white stork remains as a farmland bird -mainly occupies territories with arable lands and pastures (Tobolka et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 63%

“…It is a large-bodied, long-lived bird species originally occurring in wetland ecosystems, but it habituated to forage in semi-natural areas like meadows, pastures, and arable elds (Schulz 1998). Recently, it is considered a farmland bird that can play a role of biodiversity indicator in agricultural lands (Tobolka et al, 2012) but some populations became even urban birds (Hmamouchi et al, 2020;Chenchouni, 2017). Previously, we documented that both western and eastern migratory populations of the white stork use anthropogenic nest materials (Jagiello et al, 2018(Jagiello et al, , 2020.…”

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Anthropogenic nest materials in two distinct populations of migratory bird in Europe.

Jagiełło

Dylewski

Aguirre

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Transformation of natural habitats into farming lands and spread of built up areas has a pervasive effect on wildlife, especially for birds. Also, plastic pollution is affecting wildlife on a global scale. Discarded plastic is ubiquitous and accessible for birds, which can be incorporated in the nest structure. By now, a large collection of studies has been published regarding the anthropogenic nest material incorporation by birds. However, studies are predominately biased to marine birds. To balance this disproportion, we describe here the differences in type, prevalence and the amount of anthropogenic nest materials between two populations of terrestrial, mainly farmland bird, the white stork Ciconia ciconia on a broad geographical scale, from two migratory divides – eastern in Poland and western in Spain (in total 303 nests). We detected significant differences in anthropogenic nest material incorporation between two populations in regard to human pressure reflected by Human Footprint Index (HFI) and urbanisation level measured by Impervious Surface Areas (ISA). In Spanish population, we found that probability of anthropogenic nest material incorporation was positively related to ISA, and amount of anthropogenic nest material was positively associated to HFI, in contrast to Polish one, where there was no significant relationship. Moreover, we showed that the prevalence of nests with anthropogenic nest material was two times higher in Spanish than in Polish white stork population. This study demonstrates that the vulnerability to solid waste pollution differs on a population scale within one species.

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Anthropogenic nest materials in two distinct populations of migratory bird in Europe.

Jagiełło

Dylewski

Aguirre

et al. 2022

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“…This is particularly important in the case of species with a marked nest-site fidelity (Barbraud et al 1999, Vergara et al 2006) and philopatry (Del Hoyo et al 2014), such as the White Stork, where the previous distribution is a determinant factor in the future expansion of the species. Previous studies focused on the effects of landfills on White Stork distribution often overlooked the potential effects of historical distribution due to the lack of available data before the use of the new feeding resources began (Djerdali et al 2016b, Bialas et al 2020, Hmamouchi et al 2020a,b).…”

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White Storks nest at high densities near landfills changing stork nesting distributions in the last four decades in Central Spain

López‐García

Aguirre

2023

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Human-induced environmental changes are the main drivers of the ongoing redistribution of biodiversity. The millions of tons of organic waste that is added daily to landfills can increase the carrying capacity of ecological systems with direct effects on species´ population sizes and/or distributions. Understanding the effect of landfills on bird distribution is essential to assess management decisions. Our aim was to determine the role of landfills in the distribution of the breeding population of White Storks (Ciconia ciconia) in the last 4 decades. For that purpose, we used historical and current census data of breeding pairs before and after landfill exploitation. In this study, we found that landfills have altered the distribution of the breeding population over the last 4 decades in the province of Madrid, Spain. We found that birds occupied new nesting sites near landfills independently of habitat quality as defined by prey abundance and quality according to previous studies. Nest density was higher near landfills and increased after the landfills began to be utilized by this species. Population growth and extremely high breeding densities may translate into conflicts with humans, particularly when new nesting sites are in urban areas, and possibly alter the perception of this bird species by the human population. Landfill closures, mandated by the European Landfill legislation, is an opportunity to reduce the effects of landfills on animal populations, and reduce human–wildlife conflicts. However, there must be a process of transition and a preliminary evaluation of habitat quality and suitability in the region to avoid a dramatic decline of the White Stork population.

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“…We also created spatial variables by means of Moran’s eigenvector maps (MEMs), using the packages “spdep”, “adespatial”, “ade4”, “maptools” and “adegraphics” (Dray et al 2006 ), a method that produces flexible spatial predictors through principal coordinate analysis of a truncated geographic distance matrix among different points, while capturing spatial effects at multiple spatial scales. These orthogonal spatial variables (MEMs) can be used in regression (independent variables) to account for spatial autocorrelation (Assandri et al 2019 ; Farhi et al 2020 ) and for variation partitioning to account for the space (Hanane 2018 ; Farhi et al 2020 ; Hmamouchi et al 2020 ).…”

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Spatio-temporal pattern of latrine distribution in reintroduced Cuvier’s gazelles (Gazella cuvieri): an assessment in a Mediterranean forest reserve

Hanane

Amhaouch²

2021

Biologia

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Landscape and coloniality are robust predictors of White Stork nest habitat selection in a coastal urban environment

Cited by 12 publications

References 56 publications

Anthropogenic nest materials in two distinct populations of migratory bird in Europe.

Anthropogenic nest materials in two distinct populations of migratory bird in Europe.

White Storks nest at high densities near landfills changing stork nesting distributions in the last four decades in Central Spain

Spatio-temporal pattern of latrine distribution in reintroduced Cuvier’s gazelles (Gazella cuvieri): an assessment in a Mediterranean forest reserve

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