Multiple species of cuckoos are superior predictors of bird species richness in Asia

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41330%2F17%3A76413" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41330/17:76413 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2003" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2003</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2003" target="_blank" >10.1002/ecs2.2003</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Multiple species of cuckoos are superior predictors of bird species richness in Asia
Original language description
The abundance and the presence of common cuckoos Cuculus canorus have been shown to predict species richness of birds across Europe, while there are no such analyses available for other continents where species richness of parasitic cuckoos is larger. Here, we tested whether species richness of birds increased with the number of cuckoo species in two study areas in China and one in Japan. We also tested whether species richness of birds can be predicted by the number of cuckoo individuals. Furthermore, we compared the strength of association between overall bird species richness and species richness of cuckoos, Paridae, Corvidae, and birds of prey. This is the first study demonstrating that cuckoo species richness is more strongly associated with overall bird species richness than richness of species belonging to other families, and rather than occurrence of a single cuckoo species, as already demonstrated for the common cuckoo in Europe. The number of cuckoo species was positively associated with bo
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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