Habitat requirements of passerines and reedbed management in southern France

Poulin, Brigitte; Lefebvre, Gaétan; Mauchamp, André

doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(02)00070-8

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“…Reed can grow in a wide range of habitats from dry roadside ditches to several meters of open water but it is typically found on organic sediment accumulating on sheltered stretches of shore. Reeds standing in deep water have high conservation value, because they provide an essential habitat for spawning fish and nesting birds [75].…”

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Categorizing Wetland Vegetation by Airborne Laser Scanning on Lake Balaton and Kis-Balaton, Hungary

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Outlining patches dominated by different plants in wetland vegetation provides information on species succession, microhabitat patterns, wetland health and ecosystem services. Aerial photogrammetry and hyperspectral imaging are the usual data acquisition methods but the application of airborne laser scanning (ALS) as a standalone tool also holds promises for this field since it can be used to quantify 3-dimensional vegetation structure. Lake Balaton is a large shallow lake in western Hungary with shore wetlands that have been in decline since the 1970s. In August 2010, an ALS survey of the shores of Lake Balaton was completed with 1 pt/m 2 discrete echo recording. The resulting ALS dataset was processed to several output rasters describing vegetation and terrain properties, creating a sufficient number of independent variables for each raster cell to allow for basic multivariate classification. An expert-generated decision tree algorithm was applied to outline wetland areas, and within these, patches dominated by Typha sp. Carex sp., and Phragmites australis. Reed health was mapped into four categories: healthy, stressed, ruderal and die-back. The output map was tested against a set of 775 geo-tagged ground photographs and had a user's accuracy of >97% for detecting non-wetland features (trees, artificial surfaces and low density Scirpus stands), >72% for dominant genus detection and >80% for most reed health categories (with 62% for one category). Overall classification OPEN ACCESSRemote Sens. 2012, 4 1618 accuracy was 82.5%, Cohen's Kappa 0.80, which is similar to some hyperspectral or multispectral-ALS fusion studies. Compared to hyperspectral imaging, the processing chain of ALS can be automated in a similar way but relies directly on differences in vegetation structure and actively sensed reflectance and is thus probably more robust. The data acquisition parameters are similar to the national surveys of several European countries, suggesting that these existing datasets could be used for vegetation mapping and monitoring.

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Categorizing Wetland Vegetation by Airborne Laser Scanning on Lake Balaton and Kis-Balaton, Hungary

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“…Reed Warblers are also known to favour reedbeds cut on a rotation (Bibby & Lunn 1982), which is a management strategy employed at Wicken Fen. This removes the accumulation of dead litter and induces more vigorous reed growth which may provide better food resources and stronger reeds for nesting (Poulin et al 2002). At Gosforth Park, population growth may have been more influenced by the survival of adult residents, rather than new recruits from immigration and natal recruitment.…”

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Survival rates of adult Reed WarblersAcrocephalus scirpaceusat a northern and southern site in England

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“…Each rodent species has a specific adaptation capability to various environments in its feeding and living habits (USAID/Tchad, 1997). The spatial distribution of small mammal species is influenced by interaction of various factors including food availability, water and predators (Poulin et al, 2002;Pinzon et al,. 2005;Elmhagen & Rushton, 2007;Oosthuizen & Bennett, 2009;Bateman et al, 2010).…”

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Vegetation habitats and small mammals in a plague endemic area in Western Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

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Kimaro

Kihupi

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Tanzania J Hlth Res

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Human plague still exists in different parts of the world, including some landscapes in northeastern Tanzania. Wherever the hotspot of plague, small mammals seem to play a key role as host. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between vegetation habitats types and small mammals in a plague endemic area of Lushoto District in Tanzania. A combination of field survey and Landsat images was used to identify the vegetation habitats. Small mammals were trapped in the mapped vegetation units, and identified. In total, six main types of vegetation habitats were investigated. A total of 13 small mammal species, potentially related to plague were trapped. Results show that annual cultivated crops habitat accounted for 80% of Mastomys natalensis while natural forest accounted for 60% of Praomys delectorum. These findings have shed new light on the diversity of rodents in different habitats of natural and semi-natural vegetations, and agricultural crops in the study area, which is an important intermediate step in unravelling the complex human plague system.

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Habitat requirements of passerines and reedbed management in southern France

Cited by 100 publications

References 25 publications

Categorizing Wetland Vegetation by Airborne Laser Scanning on Lake Balaton and Kis-Balaton, Hungary

Categorizing Wetland Vegetation by Airborne Laser Scanning on Lake Balaton and Kis-Balaton, Hungary

Survival rates of adult Reed WarblersAcrocephalus scirpaceusat a northern and southern site in England

Vegetation habitats and small mammals in a plague endemic area in Western Usambara Mountains, Tanzania

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