Birds' ecological characteristics differ among habitats: an analysis based on national citizen science data

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10448787" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10448787 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/22:91474 RIV/61989592:15310/22:73616853

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4S-tnrkmu4" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=4S-tnrkmu4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42974-022-00089-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s42974-022-00089-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Birds' ecological characteristics differ among habitats: an analysis based on national citizen science data

Original language description

Variation in bird community composition across habitats may be reflected by changes in species&apos; ecological characteristics. By their comparison between habitats, we can learn information about the factors underlying these changes. With this purpose, we used data from a nation-wide breeding bird monitoring scheme surveying birds in 15 habitat types sorted into four broad categories (forests, open, urban, and humid habitats) in a central European country, Czechia. We considered life-history strategy, migration distance, climatic niche position, European rarity, and diet niche as species&apos; ecological characteristics and compared their mean values across the habitat types. Although habitat type explained relatively low proportion of variability in these characteristics indicating that birds widely overlap in their habitat use, we observed significant differences in ecological characteristics between broad habitat categories, as well as between habitat types within a given category. For example, urban habitats hosted species with generally lower degree of insectivory than forest habitats. Within forests, coniferous stands hosted species with colder climatic niche than deciduous stands. The greatest differences were observed among humid habitat types: species recorded in water bodies were rarer in Europe and had slower life-history strategies than species recoded in running water. Within the open habitat category, mining areas were the most specific habitat with long-migrating and warm-dwelling species. The observed patterns can be driven by various factors including habitat-specific selection pressures, biogeographic constraints and human-induced habitat changes. On their basis, we discuss our findings.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-16738S" target="_blank" >GA18-16738S: Effects of urbanization on multilevel avian diversity: linking bird community metrics to pollution level, vegetation and building density</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Community Ecology

ISSN

1585-8553

e-ISSN

1588-2756

Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

173-186

UT code for WoS article

000788979400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85129124070