Cuckoo and biodiversity: Testing the correlation between species occurrence and bird species richness in Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/15:65947

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.003</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.003" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.biocon.2015.06.003</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cuckoo and biodiversity: Testing the correlation between species occurrence and bird species richness in Europe

Original language description

The use of biodiversity surrogates is an increasingly popular tool, because it provides strong results while reducing the costs of conservation studies. Here, we hypothesize that cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) occurrence may correlate with high bird species richness based on the assumption that their presence should mirror the richness of their potential avian hosts and the overall bird community. Specifically, we assessed the association between species occurrence and taxonomic diversity patterns on a multi-spatial scale using datasets from seven European countries. Our results show that high bird species richness is a good proxy for cuckoo occurrence, and the best results were based on data from point counts. The species was almost absent at sites with lowspecies richness, suggesting that the presence of cuckoo is an appropriate surrogate of bird biodiversity. The accuracy of the models ranged from 0.68-0.71 (for large spatial scale) to 0.86 (for local spatial scale) and provided valuable

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

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biological Conservation

ISSN

0006-3207

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

190

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October 2015

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

123-132

UT code for WoS article

000358972200015

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84935845908