Landscape-scale effects of Christmas-tree plantations in an intensively used low-mountain landscape – Applying breeding bird assemblages as indicators

Fartmann, Thomas; Kämpfer, Steffen; Brüggeshemke, Jonas; Juchem, Marvin; Klauer, F.; Weking, Sarah; Löffler, Franz

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.07.006

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“…During the early 1980s, many grasslands were converted to CTP due to agricultural overproduction (Rüther, 1990). Also, after the European storm 'Kyrill' in 2007, Christmas-tree cultivation expanded extensively in the study area (Fartmann et al, 2018). Most CTP in the study area are managed conventionally; this includes regular herbicide treatment and rotation cycles of about 8-12 years (Fartmann et al, 2018).…”

Section: Study Area and Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, for reducing herbicide inputs into the environment, we recommend the avoidance of herbicide application as much as possible (e.g. by the abandonment of herbicide treatment along the plantation fences and tramlines; Fartmann et al, 2018).…”

Section: Implications For Conservationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, novel agricultural systems have rarely been studied. One example of a novel agroecosystem is Christmas‐tree plantations (CTP; Fartmann et al, 2018), which have been increasingly established in Central Europe, especially in Germany since the 1980s (Maurmann, 2013).…”

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Phytodiversity in Christmas‐tree plantations under different management regimes

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2021

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“…Birds are bioindicators of the quality of the environment and changes occurring in it (Bucher et al, 2019;Fartmann et al, 2018). For instance, remnants of avian activity are an indicator in classifications of soils (PSC, 2019;WRB, 2015).…”

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Soil indicators of bird activity in the temperate climatic zone – A case‐study

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The importance of birds to pedogenesis and their impact on soil characteristics is a long-standing topic of research. For this reason, the ornithogenic soils (avian soils) are distinguished as a separate category in some soil classifications. The continuous progress of knowledge on and changes in the management of the Earth's resources demand constant updating of definitions and classification criteria in various fields of environmental sciences. A search of the literature revealed few studies that examine the properties of bird soils in the temperate climate zone. This paper focuses on ornithogenic material: grit and bones deposited in the topsoil. Although areas covered by such soils are limited to 1-100 ha, they are found in high abundance in Europe and Asia. The surface horizon of the soil examined in the current study in Pozna n, Poland, contained ample ornithogenic material; however, the soil's phosphorus content was remarkably low. Therefore, the analysed soil may not be considered as an ornithogenic soil, nor can it be attributed to the ornithic supplementary qualifier provided by the World Reference Base (WRB). The case study presented here exemplifies that soils containing ornithogenic material but lacking phosphorous compounds may occur in the temperate climate zone. Therefore, we conclude that ornithogenic material is the only permanent indicator of the existence of large groups of birds in non-polar climate zones.

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“…Although a number of studies have looked into the response of birds to environmental changes, most of them have focused on a particular issue in a particular habitat, or on the influence of a particular environmental variable [23][24][25][26][27]. "Local" and "landscape" are defined as simple hierarchical classifications of environmental variables [28].…”

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Bird Communities in Urban Riparian Areas: Response to the Local- and Landscape-Scale Environmental Variables

Guo

Saito

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Understanding how environmental changes driven by urbanization impact the biodiversity in urban riparian areas has great importance for landscape planning and river ecosystem conservation. There have been many studies on the response of bird communities to different environmental variables in urban parks; however, although supporting some of the highest bird diversities, case studies in urban riparian areas remain limited. In existing research, few studies have considered the impact of both local waterfront characteristics and surrounding environmental variables at a larger scale. In this study, we selected birds as the indicator to clarify their response to both local- and landscape-scale environmental variables in riparian areas of Tsing river, Beijing, in terms of (a) vegetation composition, (b) human disturbance, (c) land cover, and (d) landscape connectivity. We hypothesized that birds with different biological characteristics may respond differently to environmental variables. Birds were then further grouped according to the habitat type, residential type, and feeding type. It turned out that the coverage of grass and the disturbance of pedestrians are the most influential variables. Besides, compared with the land cover and landscape connectivity, the total contribution of vegetation characteristics and human disturbance accounts for the main proportion of explained variance. Information pertaining to these environmental variables can provide evidence to support bird conservation efforts in urban areas, and the identified distance threshold provides a basis for future landscape connectivity assessments.

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Landscape-scale effects of Christmas-tree plantations in an intensively used low-mountain landscape – Applying breeding bird assemblages as indicators

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

Phytodiversity in Christmas‐tree plantations under different management regimes

Phytodiversity in Christmas‐tree plantations under different management regimes

Soil indicators of bird activity in the temperate climatic zone – A case‐study

Bird Communities in Urban Riparian Areas: Response to the Local- and Landscape-Scale Environmental Variables

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