Cuckoos vs. top predators as prime bioindicators of biodiversity in disturbed environments

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.06.029" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.06.029</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.06.029" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.06.029</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cuckoos vs. top predators as prime bioindicators of biodiversity in disturbed environments

Original language description

We studied the abundance of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus L. little cuckoo Cuculus poliocephalus L. and Asian cuckoo Cuculus saturatus L. and avian top predators as indicators of bird species richness (surrogate of biodiversity) in disturbed environments caused by radioactive contamination in Chernobyl, Ukraine and Fukushima, Japan, comparing their efficiency as indicators of local biodiversity hotspots. Bird species richness and birds abundance were quantified in each sample site during the breeding seasons between 2006 and 2015 and the level of background radiation was measured at every site. The correlation between number of cuckoos, top predators, land use composition and level of background radiation with bird species richness as response variable were examined using Generalized Linear Mixed Models. The strength of correlation between species richness and abundance and the covariates obtained from the model outputs were used as measure of the efficiency of each predictor, as well as the AIC

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

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RADIOACTIVITY

ISSN

0265-931X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

177

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

158-164

UT code for WoS article

000411301700018

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85021692461