Suitability of biodiversity-area and biodiversity-perimeter relationships in ecology: a case study of urban ecosystems

Horák, Jakub

doi:10.1007/s11252-015-0492-2

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“…In future urban park planning, we suggest enlarging the construction area of parks. In terms of the shape of park, except for conforming the surrounding environment, the contour boundary can be adjusted appropriately to meet the habitat and survival needs of different bird species, which is also similar to previous studies [ 75 , 76 ]. Furthermore, the proportion of woodland area and the shape of waterbodies are essential indicators of bird retention, which should be carefully considered in the design of green space in parks.…”

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Effects of Landscape Features on Bird Community in Winter Urban Parks

Huang

Zheng

Yan

et al. 2022

Animals

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Urban parks, as critical components of the urban green space, have practical significance in studying the influence of landscape characteristics on birds. Nine urban parks in Fuzhou, China, were used as study objects to explore the influence of landscape features (patch, landscape, and surrounding environment indices) on bird communities. The results showed that (1) from December 2021 to February 2022, we found a total of 2874 individuals belonging to 61 species of 9 orders, 32 families, which were dominated by the birds of Passeriformes (37 species of 24 families, accounting for 89.91% of the total number of individuals) and resident birds in Fuzhou urban parks (n = 30; 85.46%); (2) The park area, park perimeter, woodland area, grassland area, and the park shape index increased as the distance to the city center increases; (3) Bird diversity responds differently to different landscape features. The total abundance of birds, the abundance of winter migrant birds, and the richness of winter migrant birds increased with the park area. And the park shape index affects positively for the the α-diversity of birds and the abundance of resident birds. Woodland proportion and waterbody shape index affected positively on the richness and α-diversity of resident birds. To promote the diversity of regional birds, it is recommended that the construction and planning of urban parks should enlarge the park area as much as possible, increase the proportion of woodland, and make shorelines more irregular. Our study could serve as a reference for the construction of biodiversity enhancements in core green areas of urban parks.

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confidence: 56%

Effects of Landscape Features on Bird Community in Winter Urban Parks

Huang

Zheng

Yan

et al. 2022

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“…This variable was measured based on actual forest management plans and was confirmed by our observations in the field and by actual aerial photographs. The relationship of area to disparate biological variables is often studied (Horák, 2016), but its use in forest insect ecology is, to the best of our knowledge, relatively limited (Webb et al , 2008).…”

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The effects of within stand disturbance in plantation forests indicate complex and contrasting responses among and within beetle families

Mladenović

Loskotová

Boháč

et al. 2018

Bull. Entomol. Res.

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Plantation forests with timber production as the major function are highly fragmented and disturbed regarding the tree species composition and stand area. Their closed canopies also have different microclimatic conditions compared with better studied conservation areas. We studied three beetle families (click, longhorn, and rove beetles) with different ecological demands in lowland plantation forests dominated by Sessile oak and Norway spruce in the Czech Republic. Our main interest was how their species richness, abundance, diversity, body length, rarity, red-list status, species composition and individual species were driven by the main tree species, stand area and canopy openness. We analyzed 3466 individuals from 198 beetle species and the results revealed complex and contrasting responses of the studied beetle families - click beetles mostly preferred sun-exposure and spruce as the dominant tree species, longhorn beetles mainly preferred large stands, whereas rove beetles were mostly influenced by oak as the dominant tree species and increasing area. We also observed that some species had different preferences in plantation forests than is known from the literature. The main conclusions of our results are that the dominance of non-natural spruce plantations and a large stand area (both originating from artificially replanted large clear-cuts) did not affect the majority of the studied taxa as we expected. On the other hand, our results might have been influenced by other factor, such as the current small total area of the former vegetation, which in the past might have led to extinction debt; or a large area of other conifers in the surroundings that might have promoted conifer-associated fauna.

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“…However, they can facilitate connectivity or mimic natural xeric steppes. In addition, they might also serve as transitional habitats or stepping stones (Horak 2014a) in fragmented areas of cities (Horák 2016). This is probably the reason why orchards in xerothermic biotopes contained more species of both butter ies and red-listed butter ies.…”

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Active Management of Fruit Orchard Meadows Under The Influence of Suburbanization is Important for Insect Diversity

Rada

Bogusch

Pech

et al. 2021

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Fruit orchards under different types of management represent the most common agroforestry practice in central Europe. Traditional fruit orchards with trees usually planted in meadows are at a surplus, providing suitable habitats for many plant and animal species. We examined the influence of different management and biotope types on three insect groups. This study was conducted in thirty orchards across the capital city of the Czech Republic – Prague (496 km²). We investigated the diversities of butterflies, hymenopterans and beetles. Their species richnesses mainly benefitted from orchard management and were partly higher at xerothermic sites than at mesic sites. Red-listed species did not show any clear patterns. Open-landscape specialists were influenced by management, while forest species were influenced by habitat type. Generally, orchard abandonment led to insect biodiversity loss. Therefore, active agricultural management appears to be essential for insect biodiversity conservation in orchards, and different management and biotope types provide suitable conditions for specific species. Mowing and maintaining orchards are two important biodiversity management actions in highly human-populated landscapes.

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Suitability of biodiversity-area and biodiversity-perimeter relationships in ecology: a case study of urban ecosystems

Cited by 20 publications

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Effects of Landscape Features on Bird Community in Winter Urban Parks

Effects of Landscape Features on Bird Community in Winter Urban Parks

The effects of within stand disturbance in plantation forests indicate complex and contrasting responses among and within beetle families

Active Management of Fruit Orchard Meadows Under The Influence of Suburbanization is Important for Insect Diversity

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