Can human disturbance promote nestedness? Songbirds and noise in urban parks as a case study

González‐Oreja, José Antonio; Fuente-Diaz-Ordaz, A. A. De La; Hernández-Santín, Lorna; Bonache-Regidor, Carolina; Buzo-Franco, Daniela

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.09.001

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“…The results are in line with former research result, which showed that human disturbance, even pedestrians, could negatively affect many urban bird species [36]. It is also reported by other researchers that noise from pervasive human disturbance in cities could promote nestedness of songbirds [37]. The relationships between birdsong and different kinds of anthropogenic need to be further studied in terms of soundscape perception.…”

Section: Relationships With Other Soundssupporting

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Birdsong As an Element of the Urban Sound Environment: A Case Study Concerning the Area of Warnemünde in Germany

Liu¹,

Kang²,

Behm³

2014

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

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SummaryBirds are common species in urban ecosystems and birdsong is an important element of many urban sound environments. Perceptions of birdsong loudness, based on a case study in Warnemünde, a coastal area in Germany, were analysed in terms of its role in urban sound environment, the relationships with other sounds, spatiotemporal characteristics, as well as the relationships with underlying landscape characteristics. An important and positive role of birdsong in urban soundscape perception in the study area was recognised. The analysis of the relationships between birdsong perception and other sounds suggested that, although birds could adjust their songs with continual urban traffic sounds, they are still sensitive to excessive sounds related to human appearance (adult voice, child voice and footstep) or human activities (construction sounds, music). The spatiotemporal patterns of perceived loudness of birdsong suggested the adapted patterns of bird species in urban areas. Perceived loudness of birdsong showed close relationships with the underlying landscape characteristics indicated by a series of landscape spatial pattern indices. Positive relationships were found with construction density, road density, vegetation density, as well as fragmentation status indicated by patch density, largest patch index, landscape shape index, fractal dimension and contagion.

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Section: Relationships With Other Soundssupporting

confidence: 90%

Birdsong As an Element of the Urban Sound Environment: A Case Study Concerning the Area of Warnemünde in Germany

Liu¹,

Kang²,

Behm³

2014

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

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“…, Gonzalez‐Oreja et al. ). Although many of these uses of the disturbance concept may aid in understanding ecology in the city (e.g., effects of human presence on bird behaviors; Fernandez‐Juricic and Telleria ), denoting the mere presence of humans as disturbance would render the concept useless in the whole‐system‐based study of urban SETS.…”

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“…, Gonzalez‐Oreja et al. , Zhou and Chu ), land use and land cover change (Liley and Clarke , Markovchick‐Nicholls et al. , Buyantuyev and Wu , Carreiro and Zipperer , Chow and Svoma , Calizza et al.…”

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Does the ecological concept of disturbance have utility in urban social–ecological–technological systems?

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Pickett

Hale

et al. 2017

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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The ecological concept of disturbance has scarcely been applied in urban systems except in the erroneous but commonplace assumption that urbanization itself is a disturbance and cities are therefore perennially disturbed systems. We evaluate the usefulness of the concept in urban ecology by exploring how a recent conceptual framework for disturbance (Peters et al. 2011, Ecosphere, 2, art 81) applies to these social-ecological-technological systems (SETS). Case studies, especially from the Long-Term Ecological Research sites of Baltimore and Phoenix, are presented to show the applicability of the framework for disturbances to different elements of these systems at different scales. We find that the framework is easily adapted to urban SETS and that incorporating social and technological drivers and responders can contribute additional insights to disturbance research beyond urban systems.

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“…The calculation of the intraclass correlation coefficients for these two variables showed reasonably high and significant between-park repeatability (tree height: r i = 0.58, F 30,41 = 4.24, P < 0.001; trunk diameter: r i = 0.70, F 30,41 = 6.27, P < 0.001), suggesting that the mean values of these estimates of tree height and trunk diameter were representative of each park. From the noise maps of Vitoria-Gasteiz published in 2012 (Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2012), mean environmental noise was also obtained for each park as an indicator of human-induced disturbance that might affect avian communities (González-Oreja et al, 2012). For this purpose, the grids of the full-day environmental noise map that intersected with each park were extracted digitally, and the mean value of those grids was used as a surrogate of the human disturbance experienced by each park.…”

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Seasonality affects avian species distribution but not diversity and nestedness patterns in the urban parks of Vitoria–Gasteiz (Spain)

Hera¹

2019

Anim. Biodiv. Conserv.

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Environmental seasonality leads to variation in the composition and structure of bird communities over the year that might alter biodiversity and nestedness patterns in urban parks and other frag-mented habitats. These changes could have important implications in the management and conservation of urban green areas and their populations, but they are largely unexplored. In this study, the composition, diversity and nestedness of the breeding and wintering avian communities in 31 urban parks of Vitoria–Gasteiz (Spain) were analysed. Avian diversity was significantly greater during breeding than during the winter period, although the most diverse parks during breeding were also the most diverse during winter. Most of the among–park variation in diversity was explained by park size, while tree density had a marginal contribution that was only significant during winter. Avian communities showed a significant nested subset pattern that was similar between seasons, with these patterns being mainly mediated by park size. Although the distribution of seven out of the 16 species occurring all–year–round changed significantly from one season to the other, the park ranks in the nestedness matrices were strongly correlated between seasons. This was caused by the reduction in the park distribution of some species from one season to the other that was compensated by the expansion of other species that were initially less common. These results support the idea that, in small and medium–sized cities, park size is the main constraint on avian diversity, and the presence of relatively large parks (> 10 ha) should be encouraged to promote a rich avifauna all year round.

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Can human disturbance promote nestedness? Songbirds and noise in urban parks as a case study

Cited by 56 publications

References 53 publications

Birdsong As an Element of the Urban Sound Environment: A Case Study Concerning the Area of Warnemünde in Germany

Birdsong As an Element of the Urban Sound Environment: A Case Study Concerning the Area of Warnemünde in Germany

Does the ecological concept of disturbance have utility in urban social–ecological–technological systems?

Seasonality affects avian species distribution but not diversity and nestedness patterns in the urban parks of Vitoria–Gasteiz (Spain)

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