Relationships between bird species richness and different facets of landscape heterogeneity - insights from a military area

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15310/23:73622407

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Vs0CkCYK4I" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Vs0CkCYK4I</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25225/jvb.23012" target="_blank" >10.25225/jvb.23012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Relationships between bird species richness and different facets of landscape heterogeneity - insights from a military area

Original language description

Military areas often host extraordinary biodiversity compared to the typical agricultural landscape in Europe. It has been suggested that this is due to the high landscape heterogeneity caused by disturbances from military training. This study aimed to test this hypothesis using data from the military area Hradiste and nearby farmland in the Czech Republic (Central Europe). Here, we measured two facets of landscape heterogeneity - the number of woody vegetation patches and habitat diversity. and supplemented these measures with previously published data from bird point counts performed on the same sites. The number of woody vegetation patches was higher in the military area than in the farmland and was positively related to the species richness of birds of conservation concern. Habitat diversity did not differ between both regions. It showed, however, a hump-shaped relationship with total bird species richness. Our results indicate that open landscapes of military areas host a higher number of birds of conservation concern than the farmland due to a finer grain of woodland-grassland mosaic. To support more bird species, it is essential to keep habitat diversity high in open landscapes but at a level that does not harm bird populations by area limitation.

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

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Vertebrate Biology

ISSN

2694-7684

e-ISSN

2694-7684

Volume of the periodical

72

Issue of the periodical within the volume

23012

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

000971688400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85158159495