Bird communities in habitats along a successional gradient: Divergent patterns of species richness, specialization and threat

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F13%3A10140206" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/13:10140206 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2013.05.007" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2013.05.007</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2013.05.007" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.baae.2013.05.007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bird communities in habitats along a successional gradient: Divergent patterns of species richness, specialization and threat

Original language description

The long history of human influence on northern temperate landscapes has created a mosaic of successional stages, from closed forest to open grassland. Various species thus adapted to different habitats and it is interesting to explore how these differences in species composition among particular successional stages translate into differences at the community level. For this purpose, we surveyed breeding birds in 233 patches of five different habitats covering a gradient from bare ground to forest in 29abandoned military training sites scattered throughout the Czech Republic. Linear mixed effects modelling revealed that late-successional habitats (dense scrubland and forest) were the most species-rich, whereas early-successional stages hosted bird communities with the highest habitat specialization and threat level. These results suggest that the habitats of late-successional stages are important for the maintenance of high bird species richness, but that early-successional habitats a

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Basic and Applied Ecology

ISSN

1439-1791

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

423-431

UT code for WoS article

000321497300007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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