The Effect of Pyrogenic Successionon Breeding Birds of Shelter Belts in the North-Western Part of the Azov Sea Region

Abstract

The effect of the pyrogenic factor on the avifauna of shelter belts in the north-western part of the Azov Sea region, Ukraine is considered basing on results of the research carried out in 2001–2018. The breeding bird community of shelter belts is composed of 50 species, of them different types of shelter belts support 14–46 species. Changes in the species composition of breeding birds are analysed in subsequent years aft er the fires. The recovery of bird communities is progressing at a slow pace following the regeneration of tree-shrub vegetation and development of consortial relations of birds with dominating tree-shrub species and rook (Corvus frugilegus) colonies. It is established that the vegetation pyrogenic succession is accompanied by deep qualitative and quantitative changes in the structure of breeding avian communities in shelter belts of different type.

Spatial Heterogeneity of Steppe Bird Community in the Azov-Black Sea Enclave of the European Dry-Steppe Zone (Southern Ukraine)

“…Volchanetskii (1940), N. A. Gladkov (1950), M. M. Drozdov (1963) and K. P. Filonov (1972), all birds were recorded, irrespectively to the character of their stay (breeding, post-breeding), migrating, nomadic, etc. ), in all landscapes and habitats (agricultural fi elds, forest belts, pastures, hayfi elds, fallows, ravines, small water bodies, small planted forests, fi eld roads, small villages, etc.).…”

Taxonomic and ecological composition of the native groupings of the birds of the dry steppe zone of Ukraine

“…The researches on the groupings of the birds in the South of Ukraine have been devoted to the detection of: their differences in the natural and the anthropogenic landscapes (Koshelev, 2018;Ayubova & Koshelev, 2019); the search for the patterns of the dynamics of the diversity of the groupings of the birds depending on the landscape diversity and the area of the territory of the biotopes (Koshelev et al, 2019); the definition of the peculiarities of the distribution of the grouping of the birds in different wetlands by the place of their feeding (Andruyshchenko & Zhukov, 2016); the perspectives of the protection of the reed ornithocomplexes depending on their structure and the dynamics (Koshelev, 2017).…”