Breeding in an agricultural landscape: conservation actions increase nest survival in a ground-nesting bird
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F24%3A43909161" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/24:43909161 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/breeding-in-an-agricultural-landscape-conservation-actions-increase-nest-survival-in-a-groundnesting-bird/BA9C45FE5B0E5BBFEFF9B066F5145460" target="_blank" >https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/breeding-in-an-agricultural-landscape-conservation-actions-increase-nest-survival-in-a-groundnesting-bird/BA9C45FE5B0E5BBFEFF9B066F5145460</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605323000911" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0030605323000911</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Breeding in an agricultural landscape: conservation actions increase nest survival in a ground-nesting bird
Original language description
Agricultural intensification has affected wildlife across Europe, triggering steep declines and regional extinctions of farmland birds. Effective conservation activities are essential for the preservation of biodiversity in an agricultural landscape, but current efforts have not succeeded in halting these declines. Here we investigate a ground-nesting shorebird, the collared pratincole Glareola pratincola, which has shifted its habitat use in Central Europe over the last 20 years from alkaline grasslands to intensively managed agricultural fields. We show that nesting success was different between three agricultural habitat types, with the highest nesting success in fallow lands and the lowest in row crops. Nesting success was also associated with the timing of breeding and breeding density, as nests produced early in the breeding season and those in high-breeding-density areas hatched more successfully than those produced later in the season and at low density. We implemented direct conservation measures including marking nests and negotiating with farmers to avoid cultivating the field between nest markers, controlling nest predators and, most recently, creating suitable nesting sites and foraging areas for pratincoles. As a result of these conservation actions, nest survival increased from 11.2% to 83.5% and the size of the breeding population increased from 13 to 56 pairs during 2012-2021. Thus, we show that agricultural landscapes can continue to provide suitable habitats, and targeted conservation actions have the potential to reverse the declines of farmland species.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GM23-07692M" target="_blank" >GM23-07692M: Animal migrations in a changing world – Movements for reproduction to higher latitudes: still advantageous strategy or maladaptive behaviour?</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Oryx
ISSN
0030-6053
e-ISSN
1365-3008
Volume of the periodical
58
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
240-249
UT code for WoS article
001113532100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85179081985