Avian indicators of land-sharing and land-sparing urban landscape configuration in European cities

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-025-03152-4" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-025-03152-4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-025-03152-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10531-025-03152-4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Avian indicators of land-sharing and land-sparing urban landscape configuration in European cities

Original language description

Considering urban landscape configuration is crucial for the development of sustainable cities. Traditional assessment methods for urban landscape configuration include estimating landscape metrics, such as housing density or greenspaces. However, avian indicators could represent an alternative method. These imply important advantages such as being able to be easily collected by citizens, or providing valuable information on socio-ecological processes associated to different urban landscape configurations. We identified avian indicators of two configurations of urban landscape: land-sharing (LSH), i.e. sprawling urbanization, and land-sparing (LSP), i.e. compact urbanization. We surveyed birds in nine European cities from Granada (southern Spain) to Rovaniemi (Arctic Circle). We followed a multi-scale (continent and city) and multi-season (breeding and winter) approach and used the indicator value (IndVal) method. At the continental scale, best LSH indicators were House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), followed by Eurasian Collared-Doves (Streptopelia decaocto) and European Greenfinches (Chloris chloris), while best LSP indicators were Common Chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs). Avian LSH/LSP indicators differed among cities probably because of factors such as differences in bird assemblages, urban vegetation management, and urbanization level. We found variation in avian indicators between seasons with fewer LSH/LSP indicators during winter. Interestingly, both LSH and LSP indicators were indicative of high environmental quality within European cities. What recommends for a heterogeneous landscape configuration that ultimately would benefit both citizens and urban wildlife. Overall, we provide a new tool for the monitoring of urban landscape configuration and its interaction with other socio-ecological factors (e.g. environmental quality, potential zoonoses, and human-bird interaction).

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

2025

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biodiversity and Conservation

ISSN

0960-3115

e-ISSN

0960-3115

Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

11

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

4049-4065

UT code for WoS article

001575747200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105016793245