Avian species richness and abundance at Lake Constance: diverging long-term trends in Passerines and Nonpasserines

Bauer, Hans-Guenther; Lemoine, Nicole; Peintinger, Markus

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“…This result is consistent with the observations of climate change impact on bird species (Julliard et al 2004;Jiguet et al 2007;Bauer et al 2008). It also corroborates predictions of future breeding bird distribution patterns modeled under various scenarios of climatic warming (Huntley et al 2007).…”

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“…First, landscape changes, such as the loss of extensively cultivated farmland because of agricultural intensification or land abandonment followed by forest spread, should reduce the distribution of farmland birds and increase the distribution of forest species (Lenzen et al 2008;Reif et al 2008a;Orłowski and Ławniczak 2009). Second, the increase in the average annual temperature should have a positive effect on the distribution of south European species and a negative impact on the north European ones (Bauer et al 2008;Reif et al 2008b). Third, global warming, along with the degradation of wintering habitats, should lead to an increase in the distribution of resident species and to a decrease of migrants (Schaefer et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Such an ''ecological-group'' approach has been used successfully for the examination of temporal changes in regional breeding bird distribution in several Western European countries (Gregory et al 2004;Julliard et al 2004;Lemoine et al 2007;Van Turnhout et al 2007;Bauer et al 2008). These studies have found prominent effects of various environmental changes on European birds such as the intensification of farming practices, urbanization and global climate change or habitat degradation on stop-over and wintering sites in the Mediterranean region and Sahel zone (Feranec et al 2000;Jongman 2002;Opdam and Wascher 2004;Moreno-Rueda and Pizarro 2008;Schaefer et al 2008).…”

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Changes in bird distribution in a Central European country between 1985–1989 and 2001–2003

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“…K-selected species, therefore, will be more threatened under conditions of recent environmental perturbation than species with faster life histories ('r-selected' species). Finally, recent studies have indicated that climate change has had a negative impact upon reproduction in long-distance migratory species, species occupying cold-climate niches and species that breed late in the breeding season (Bauer, Lemoine & Peintinger, 2008;Reif et al, 2008;Schaefer, Jetz & Böhning-Gaese, 2008;Salido et al, 2012). As such, species are likely to be more affected by a phenological mismatch between time of breeding and availability of food; they are more likely to be threatened than, for example, southern European species and species that start breeding earlier (see Both et al, 2010).…”

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Predictors of extinction risk of passerine birds in aCentralEuropean country

Koleček

Albrecht

Reif

2014

Animal Conservation

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To develop effective conservation measures, it is crucial that we understand how ecological and life-history traits relate to risk of species extinction. Through the use of phylogenetic generalized least-squares regression, this study assesses the relative importance of habitat specialization, life history, migration strategy and climatic niche as predictors of national threat level for 86 passerine bird species breeding in the Czech Republic. We found that, after controlling for variation in breeding distribution, slow life history increases the extinction risk in habitat specialist species, but reduces such risk in habitat generalists. The higher threat of habitat specialists is consistent with their higher sensitivity to human-induced environmental perturbations, most notably to the habitat loss. However, our results suggest that the negative effects of habitat specialization appear to be somewhat compensated for by fast life history. For example, species with fast life histories typically display higher fecundity than species with slow life histories. At the same time, slow life history can be beneficial for habitat generalists that are not as badly affected by habitat destruction as habitat specialists. Such species are able to allocate more energy to future reproduction and could wait for optimal environmental conditions before breeding, leading to more favourable population status in the long term. Finally, we also found that species breeding in warmer areas experience higher extinction risk than species breeding in colder areas. Although the effect of climatic niche is usually attributed to the impact of climate change, we suggest that the habitat destruction is more likely an explanation because the warmer lowland regions are heavily exploited by intensive agriculture and industrial and urban development. Based upon these results, we suggest that current conservation effort, especially in warmer zones, may not sufficiently address the requirements of the habitat specialists with slow histories.

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“…Avian diversity of farmland bird species has declined markedly in European agricultural landscapes during the recent decades (Böhning-Gaese & Bauer 1996, Pain & Pienowski 1997, BirdLife International 2004, Newton 2004, PECBM 2009. At Lake Constance (SW-Germany, W-Austria, N-Switzerland), a mosaic of forests, arable fields, orchards, fruit plantations and wetlands, it was found that the species richness and number of breeding pairs showed a strong decline from 1980 to 2000 (Bauer et al 2008). However, the changes in species richness differed markedly between non-passerine birds that remained constant from 1980 to 1990, and even increased between 1990 and 2000, and passerine birds that decreased in both periods.…”

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Species richness and structure of a breeding passerine bird community in a spruce-dominated boreal forest in central Norway: stability from 1960s to 2013

Hogstad

2013

Ornis Norv.

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The density of the breeding passerine bird community in a spruce-dominated forest in central Norway was studied in an area of one km 2 during the years 1960 and 1962−1972. In the present study I report on the structure of the passerine community in 2013 and species richness in the periods 1985−1986, 2000−2001 and 2010−2013 in the same forest area, and compare the results with those from the 1960s. The community density during 1960−1972 varied between 142 and 195 territories/km 2 , with a mean of 170. The structure of the community, based on the species' relative densities (the percentage share of each species in the total amount of observations) and the species richness, was basically unchanged. Thirty-seven passerine species were recorded as territorial within the study area, 34 in 1960−1972 and 33 in 2013. Five species held about half (49%) of the community in 1960−1972: European Robin Erithacus rubecula, Song Thrush Turdus philomelos, Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs, Common Chiffchaff Phylloscopus collybita and Dunnock Prunella modularis, for each of which the mean relative density varied from 6.2 to 11.8%. The same species, except for Dunnock that was replaced by Willow Warbler Phylloscopus trochilus in 2013, made together 53% of the passerine community. When combining the years 1960−1972 and 2013, Song Thrush and Hooded Crow Corvus cornix had increased in relative densities, Dunnock, Eurasian Blackbird Turdus merula and Willow Tit Poecile montanus had decreased, while European Robin and Chaffinch were the most stable species. Twenty-nine species, i.e. 74% of the total number of species (39), were recorded in each of the four periods. The remaining species, being absent in one or more periods, accounted each for less than 1%, in total 6%. Despite some numerical changes, the passerine bird community has shown a considerable stability in species richness and structure across the period of 50 years since 1960.

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Avian species richness and abundance at Lake Constance: diverging long-term trends in Passerines and Nonpasserines

Cited by 6 publications

References 15 publications

Changes in bird distribution in a Central European country between 1985–1989 and 2001–2003

Changes in bird distribution in a Central European country between 1985–1989 and 2001–2003

Predictors of extinction risk of passerine birds in aCentralEuropean country

Species richness and structure of a breeding passerine bird community in a spruce-dominated boreal forest in central Norway: stability from 1960s to 2013

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