Land use diversity and prey availability structure the bird communities in Norway spruce plantation forests

Vélová, Lucie; Véle, Adam; Horák, Jakub

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118657

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“…Bird data were sampled using the point count method from the center of the grassland (Horák et al, 2013). Individuals seen or heard within a distance of 20 m from the center (Vélová et al, 2021) were counted. We did not count birds flying overhead.…”

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High‐, medium‐, and low‐dispersal animal taxa communities in fragmented urban grasslands

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Urbanized areas are rapidly expanding into a variety of habitats. Urbanization and suburbanization are often associated with changes in biodiversity, which are naturally influenced by biotic interactions and abiotic habitat characteristics. The main cause of changes caused by suburbanization is fragmentation. Its impacts vary between animals with different dispersal abilities. We focused on studying the responses of three taxa with different dispersal abilities: birds as a relatively high‐dispersal taxon, medium‐dispersal butterflies, and low‐dispersal land snails. We studied how biotic factors as well as habitat structural and fragmentation characteristics explain the community composition of the three study taxa in urban grasslands in the city of Pardubice (Czech Republic). Birds were the most species‐rich taxon followed by butterflies. Land snails had species‐poor grassland communities. Species composition analysis indicated species overlap among the studied taxa. Bird species composition covaried with butterfly species richness and reciprocally. Both taxa were significantly influenced by the amount of woody vegetation within the grassland. Bird community composition was also influenced by fragmentation characteristics, namely the distance to the nearest built‐up area. Urban growth most likely leads to changes in the characteristics of animal communities associated with former lowland natural grasslands, deteriorating the communities of low‐dispersal land snails while allowing birds that have generally higher dispersal abilities to thrive. Our results show that in assessing the impact of urbanization on biodiversity, attention should also be paid to low‐dispersal animal taxa.

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“…One compared populations in forest, swamp and rural areas (Ivanchev 2017), one studied the differences between natural, riparian and plantations (Domokos & Cristea 2014), and two publications covered all of these habitat categories (Hebda 2009). Eight studies on GW were conducted solely in rural landscapes (Merzlikin & Sheverdyukowa 2005;Mazgajski & Rejt 2006;Krnjeta 2019), two in plantations (Kebrle 2021;Velova, Vele & Horak 2021), four in urban areas (Sychra 2003;Kocian et al 2003;Melnikov, Belachenko & Belachenko 2017) and three in riparian forests (Onodi & Csoergo 2014;Onodi & Winkler 2016;Onodi et al 2021). Others compared riparian forest to plantation (Kosinski, Ksit & Winiecki 2006).…”

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A review of co-occurrence and hybridization as neglected factors in studies of Syrian WoodpeckerDendrocopos syriacusand Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major

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2024

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Some species of woodpecker (Picidae), such as in the genus Dendrocopos, are known to occasionally hybridize. The distribution, biology and ecology of the Syrian woodpecker (D. syriacus) and the great spotted woodpecker (D. major) are fairly wellknown (less so in the case of Syrian), but these closely related species are seldom treated together in studies. This review summarizes the published data on these species in order to evaluate the omissions and inaccuracies in research and surveys on their sympatric populations. As research that deals with both species together is scant, the need to examine interactions, both antagonistic and hybridization, is advisable in order to properly understanding their ecology, ethology, breeding biology and demography.

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“…Studies have shown that forest habitat structure strongly in uences bird assemblage composition, with changes in habitat structure leading to changes in bird communities (Ameztegui et al, 2018;Rebbah et al, 2019;Menaa et al, 2016;Menaa, 2017;Vélová et al, 2021). These associations have been investigated at various spatial scales and within different habitat types.…”

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Synecological approach of novelty responses in bird assemblage inhabiting Atlas cedar afforestation (Cedrus atlantica(Endl.) G. Manetti ex Carrière) of Mount M’Cid, Northeastern Algeria

Menaa

Guellati

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The degradation of Algerian forests caused by repeated fires, pests, diseases, and illegal cutting has led to significant losses in the natural heritage. Afforestation activities play a crucial role in restoring the degraded ecosystem, but the ecological characteristics of the forests are often overlooked when selecting single or multiple native or exotic coniferous species for afforestation. This study used a multivariate synecological approach (such as, Redundancy Canonical Analysis, a variation partitioning approach based on partial RDA and multivariate regression tree with indicator species) to analyze the relative contributions of environmental factors in forest bird community assembly in Atlas cedar stand afforestations. The survey used the point count method to observe the spatial distribution of breeding forest birds across the wooded landscape with respect to habitat predictors, summarizing woodland physiognomy and landscape-scale variables. A total of 47 forest bird species were observed, and the used multivariate synecological analysis has identified three major patterns of relationships among breeding birds and afforested area: the first was related to changes in tree structure during growth, the second was associated with the height of the grass layer, and the third was the gradient of height elevation.

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Land use diversity and prey availability structure the bird communities in Norway spruce plantation forests

Cited by 14 publications

References 64 publications

High‐, medium‐, and low‐dispersal animal taxa communities in fragmented urban grasslands

High‐, medium‐, and low‐dispersal animal taxa communities in fragmented urban grasslands

A review of co-occurrence and hybridization as neglected factors in studies of Syrian WoodpeckerDendrocopos syriacusand Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos major

Synecological approach of novelty responses in bird assemblage inhabiting Atlas cedar afforestation (Cedrus atlantica(Endl.) G. Manetti ex Carrière) of Mount M’Cid, Northeastern Algeria

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