Usefulness of coarse grain data on forest management to improve bird abundance models

Massimino, Dario; Orioli, Valerio; Pizzardi, F.; Massa, R.; Bani, Luciano

doi:10.1080/11250000802658058

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“…PAs seemed effective in protecting woodland and SDM species because their occurrence indices were larger in PAs than in NPAs. This may be because 30.3% of PAs is woodlands, six out of 22 SDM species are woodland species, and forest areas of Lombardy have increased in extent and have been less intensively exploited in the last two decades (Massimino et al 2010). PAs of Lombardy seem less effective in protecting farmland birds and LDMs.…”

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Effectiveness of the system of protected areas of Lombardy (Northern Italy) in preserving breeding birds

Sicurella

Orioli

Pinoli³

et al. 2017

Bird Conservation International

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SummaryNetworks of protected areas (PAs) where human activities are allowed at different degrees are fundamental to ensure the long-term conservation of biological diversity and ecological processes. However, studies aimed at assessing their effectiveness, focusing on several species simultaneously are scarce. We assessed the effectiveness of the system of protected areas (PAs) of Lombardy, Northern Italy, in conserving bird populations by comparing the changes from 1992 to 2013 in the occurrence of 54 breeding bird species censused in areas classified in different protection categories, namely Nature Reserves (NRs), areas designed predominantly for the protection of nature; Regional Parks (RPs), naturally valuable areas where human activities, including intensive agriculture, are allowed; and non-protected areas (NPAs). Overall, occurrence of common birds increased in Lombardy in the last 20 years and farmland and long-distance migrants (LDMs), which suffered sharp declines at a continental scale, showed stable and increasing trends, respectively. These trends were, however, the balance between those of species whose occurrence markedly increased, and those of species that dramatically declined. Species occurred more often in PAs than in NPAs, while temporal trends in occurrence were significantly more positive in RPs than in both NRs and NPAs. Hence, PAs seemed effective in preserving common bird communities. Occurrence of woodland and short-distance migrant species was higher in PAs than in NPAs, while occurrence of farmland species and LDMs was similar in all protection categories. PAs of Lombardy appear therefore effective only in protecting some categories of birds. Farmland and LDM birds would benefit more from ecologically sustainable land-use policies aiming at improving agro-ecosystem biodiversity than from protected areas.

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Effectiveness of the system of protected areas of Lombardy (Northern Italy) in preserving breeding birds

Sicurella

Orioli

Pinoli³

et al. 2017

Bird Conservation International

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“…In addition, we include the spatial coordinates of patch centroids (East and North) within each model, to control for two ecological processes that could affect bird species richness in Lombardy. The first process considers differences in bird species assemblages in Lombardy moving from continuous forests of the Alps to fragmented forests of the lowland (i.e., North to the South), while the second process considers a natural increase of forest bird species richness moving from East to West, as observed in other studies carried out in Lombardy (e.g., [30]). All of the continuous independent variables are standardized by subtracting the mean of variables and dividing by the standard deviation (i.e., by centering and scaling).…”

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Temporal Variation of Ecological Factors Affecting Bird Species Richness in Urban and Peri-Urban Forests in a Changing Environment: A Case Study from Milan (Northern Italy)

Canedoli

Orioli

Padoa‐Schioppa

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Urban and peri-urban forests determine different habitat services for biodiversity according to their characteristics. In this study, we relate ecological characteristics of urban and peri-urban forests to forest bird species richness and we assess whether their effect changed over time due to the urban sprawl within the urban region of Milan, Italy. We analyse two periods (1998-2002 and 2010-2014) using weighted generalized linear models that considered urban and peri-urban forests collectively and urban and peri-urban forests separately. Patch area, proximity to source areas and number of surrounding urban and peri-urban forests were the main factors predicting species richness within urban and peri-urban forests in both periods. While there were no differences in factors affecting bird richness in peri-urban forests between the two periods, the negative effect of urban matrix density was statistically significant for birds inhabiting urban forests in the second period. Moreover, protected areas within urban and peri-urban forests and urban forests in the second period were important determinants in providing suitable habitat for birds at the regional scale. This study offered important insights regarding urban and peri-urban forests characteristics that should be maintained to ensure biodiversity conservation across changing urban landscapes.

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“…These results suggest a primary influence of habitat fragmentation in the population dynamics which lead to Short-toed Treecreeper occurrence, even in a Mediterranean landscape. Indeed, habitat fragmentation has been shown to be one of the main threats for the species in forest landscapes (Nour et al, 1999;Bani et al, 2006;Massimino et al, 2010). Specifically, the results showed that occurrence of the species reached a probability equal to or greater than 0.80, when the percent cover of olive groves and orchards within 750 m around the species territory was greater than 85.4% and 37.3% respectively.…”

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“…It is considered a Least Concern species (BirdLife International, 2015), even though the subspecies dorotheae (localised on Cyprus) is listed in Annex I of the EU Bird Directive (2009/147/EC). It is considered a typical woodland species (especially broad-leaved or mixed) (Cramp and Perrins, 1993;Bani et al, 2006;Massimino et al, 2010), mainly inhabiting forests made up of trees with rugged bark, because of its bark-gleaning habits (Moreno, 1981;Carrascal and Tellería, 1989;Nour et al, 1997;Almeida and Granadeiro, 2000;Böhm and Kalko, 2009). Nevertheless, it also inhabits parks, orchards, and copses (Cramp and Perrins, 1993;Hagemeijer and Blair, 1997).…”

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Landscape Structure Influencing the Spatial Distribution of the Short-Toed Treecreeper Certhia Brachydactyla in a Mediterranean Agroecosystem

Chiatante¹

2017

Avian Biology Research

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The Short-toed Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla is a sedentary passerine species, considered a typical woodland species and an ecological indicator of forest alteration and fragmentation. The aim of the research was to define the habitat selection of the Short-toed Treecreeper during the breeding season in a Mediterranean landscape with scarce and highly altered woodland cover. The study was carried out in southern Italy, where point counts were made between April and May in the 2012 and 2013 breeding seasons. The habitat suitability was evaluated following a use vs availability approach, investigating the effect of arboreal habitats, such as woodlands, orchards, and olive groves, at the presence sites and in the surrounding landscape. A resource selection probability function was formulated, performing a logistic regression analysis with binomial error distribution. Model selection followed an information-theoretic approach using the AICc. The best model showed that the most important variables positively affecting the species were percent cover of orchards and olive groves within 750 m of the presence sites, as well as the number of patches of olive groves and woodlands within 250 m. The results showed that olive groves and orchards could be supplementary habitats for the Short-toed Treecreeper when woodlands were absent. Furthermore, the results suggest a primary influence of habitat fragmentation in the population dynamics which lead to Short-toed Treecreeper occurrence, even in a Mediterranean setting.

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Usefulness of coarse grain data on forest management to improve bird abundance models

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Effectiveness of the system of protected areas of Lombardy (Northern Italy) in preserving breeding birds

Effectiveness of the system of protected areas of Lombardy (Northern Italy) in preserving breeding birds

Temporal Variation of Ecological Factors Affecting Bird Species Richness in Urban and Peri-Urban Forests in a Changing Environment: A Case Study from Milan (Northern Italy)

Landscape Structure Influencing the Spatial Distribution of the Short-Toed Treecreeper Certhia Brachydactyla in a Mediterranean Agroecosystem

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