Nest site selection for five common birds and their coexistence in an urban habitat

Han, Yuqing; Bai, Junpeng; Zhang, Zhen; Wu, Ting; Chen, Peng; SUN, Guanglong; Miao, Lingwei; Xu, Zhifeng; YU, Liangjie; Zhu, Chaoying; Zhao, Dongqin; Ge, Gang; Ruan, Luzhang

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.508

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“…The presence of the riparian corridor can thus increase the amount of vegetation available for birds and, therefore, increase avian richness and abundance (Dallimer et al 2012;Kang et al 2015). Other studies have also shown higher levels of bird species richness close to rivers (Han et al 2019;Morelli et al 2017a;Stagoll et al 2010). Altogether with our results, this suggests that the presence of a river inside the corridor can increase bird species richness close to the corridor, by offering a source of water and vegetation.…”

Section: Importance Of Green Corridors For Avian Biodiversitysupporting

confidence: 83%

“…The limit distance of 1 km was arbitrary selected to better visualize the stronger effect of PC1 on species richness on sites closer to the corridor. PC1 is negatively correlated with Road, Bat1 and Noise, and positively correlated with Grass the presence of tall vegetation in cities, notably trees and shrubs, is necessary for the reproduction of many bird species, especially for building their nests and for finding nesting material (Barth et al 2015;Han et al 2019;Moller 2009). High Fig.…”

Section: Benefits Of Vegetation For Avian Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is not particularly surprising because the green corridor in Niort is mainly composed of a river with vegetated banks and, thus, can be a good avian habitat. Banks are mostly composed of trees and bushes that allow birds to hide, feed, and reproduce (Barth et al 2015;Han et al 2019;Ibáñez-Álamo et al 2020;Tryjanowski et al 2017). The presence of the riparian corridor can thus increase the amount of vegetation available for birds and, therefore, increase avian richness and abundance (Dallimer et al 2012;Kang et al 2015).…”

Section: Importance Of Green Corridors For Avian Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Green infrastructures and ecological corridors shape avian biodiversity in a small French city

Beaugeard¹,

Brischoux²,

Angelier³

2020

Urban Ecosyst

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In the context of increasing urbanization, preserving urban biodiversity has become a priority because biodiversity appears to be a key element when evaluating the well-being of urban residents. Recently, urban management has relied on a 'renaturing' strategy to improve biodiversity, but the benefits of these policies remain debated. In this study, we evaluated the effects of urban land use and green corridors on (1) urban avian biodiversity, and (2) the presence of the most common (top 70%) and least common (bottom 30%) bird species. We surveyed bird diversity at 102 sites during the Spring in a small French city, and performed a PCA on several habitat structures (e.g. roads, houses, grassy areas) to determine the level of urbanization of each site. Then, we tested with GLMMs the effects of land use (PC1), distance to the edge of the city, and distance to the corridor on bird diversity. We found a positive effect of green infrastructures on bird species richness, and this effect was reinforced by the proximity to the green corridor. Thus, bird species richness and the presence of common species were positively impacted by the presence of green areas, the proximity to the city edge and the proximity to the green corridor. The presence of the green corridor contributed significantly to the presence of rare species, which emphasizes its role in promoting avian biodiversity. Green corridors are a key element of the urban landscape because they allow less common species to colonize cities, and thus enhance urban biodiversity.

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Section: Importance Of Green Corridors For Avian Biodiversitysupporting

confidence: 83%

Section: Benefits Of Vegetation For Avian Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Importance Of Green Corridors For Avian Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Green infrastructures and ecological corridors shape avian biodiversity in a small French city

Beaugeard¹,

Brischoux²,

Angelier³

2020

Urban Ecosyst

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“…Most previous work investigating the relationship between species’ specialization and urban tolerance, however, has historically been spatially or temporally constrained – likely due to logistical constraints – e.g. investigating patterns in a single city (Leveau , Han et al , Han et al ) or few cities (Croci et al , Maklakov et al , Luck et al ) and sometimes using data over relatively few surveys. Broad‐scale analyses investigating these relationships have been historically rare, but are increasingly common (Bonier et al , Møller , Aronson et al , , Guetté et al , Palacio ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Avian trait specialization is negatively associated with urban tolerance

Callaghan

Benedetti

Wilshire

et al. 2020

Oikos

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Generalist species-with their wide niche breadths-are often associated with urban environments, while specialist species are likely to be most at-risk of increasing urbanization processes. But studies which quantify the relationship between trait specialization (i.e. niche breadth) and urban tolerance are generally methodologically limited, with repeatable robust methods to easily quantify this relationship among different regions and time scales often lacking. Our objective was to use novel methods to quantify the relationship between trait specialization and urban tolerance over a broad spatial scale. We used ~ 2 million citizen science observations and spatially intersected these with remotely-sensed VIIRS night-time light values and a novel continuous measure of a species' trait specialization for 256 European bird species. We found a negative relationship between avian urban tolerance and an overall specialization index. Nesting site niche breadth was especially negatively associated with higher urban tolerance scores. Our results highlight that species with a high degree of trait specialization likely have a lower capacity to persist in urban ecosystems, and hence, could be most at-risk in novel urban ecosystems. We suggest that trait specialization can be used as a proxy for the degree of risk posed by urban environments to a given species.

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“…In regard to breeding bird individual density, a consistent decrease occurs (Tratalos et al, 2007). Urbanization could exert large influences on breeding bird populations through the destroy of nest sites and the eliminating of food resources (Han et al, 2019; Hensley et al, 2019). Additional gradient studies have revealed that along an urbanization gradient, avian species richness peaks in moderately urbanized areas (Blair, 1999; Jokimaki & Suhonen, 1993; Pal et al, 2019; Verma & Das Murmu, 2015), which is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis (Connell, 1978), while a recent study suggested that it depends on the end of the gradient and biome (Filloy, Andres Zurita & Isabel Bellocq, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

The effect of habitat changes along the urbanization gradient for breeding birds: an example from the Xiong’an New Area

Xie

et al. 2019

PeerJ

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BackgroundBecause of its status as an ecocivilization pilot city, fundamental research on spatial distribution patterns and impact factors of the avian community within the Xiong’an New Area is necessary for future ecological planning and mitigation of negative impacts from future urbanization. Gradient research within small cities can provide important information for the development of urbanization gradient patterns of avian communities.MethodsA total of 30 sample points within the urbanization gradient were selected, and avian communities and environmental variables were measured within a 50 m radius sample circle. Principal component regression analysis was used to analyze bird-environment relationships. The Sorensen dissimilarity index was used to calculate the beta-diversity.ResultsOur results showed that there was a significant urban-rural pattern with a gradient phenomenon in avian communities. Results of this study showed more resident, passenger and insectivore species, and a higher density of breeding insectivore and omnivore individuals appear in the urban fringe than in the other areas. A relatively high value of overall beta-diversity and spatial isolation probably exists among the three disjunct constructed regions. Both species richness and individual abundance were significantly influenced by the species diversity of the trees and foliage height diversity (FHD).DiscussionBased on our results and our goal of avian species diversity conservation, we first suggest that urban green spaces be established and ensure a high complexity of vegetation structure as this is critically needed to increase avian species α-diversity within habitat patches. Second, different habitat types within and around the three constructed areas should be developed based on the important existing bird habitats to increase avian diversity in each city, especially in the areas within Xiongxian and Rongcheng that are well protected, and to elevate the beta-diversity of the total region. Finally, based on the biodiversity hotspots identified by this research, ecological corridors should be carefully planned to improve the stability of regional bird communities.

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Nest site selection for five common birds and their coexistence in an urban habitat

Cited by 27 publications

References 79 publications

Green infrastructures and ecological corridors shape avian biodiversity in a small French city

Green infrastructures and ecological corridors shape avian biodiversity in a small French city

Avian trait specialization is negatively associated with urban tolerance

The effect of habitat changes along the urbanization gradient for breeding birds: an example from the Xiong’an New Area

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