Land-use changes at nest sites of the little owl (Athene Noctua) in the South-Moravian Region of the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://mendelu.vedeckecasopisy.cz/publicFiles/001746.pdf" target="_blank" >http://mendelu.vedeckecasopisy.cz/publicFiles/001746.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jlecol-2017-0018" target="_blank" >10.1515/jlecol-2017-0018</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Land-use changes at nest sites of the little owl (Athene Noctua) in the South-Moravian Region of the Czech Republic

Original language description

The Little Owl is currently endangered bird species of agricultural lowland areas in Central Europe. Nesting sites of the Little Owl are often old trees as well as buildings and quarries with suitable nesting cavities. The Little Owl has severely declined in a major part of Europe during the past decades. Information on habitat requirements of the Little Owl and data related to land-use changes at nest sites (covering both the breeding and foraging habitats) are needed for conservation programmes aimed at this bird species. Land-use changes in farmland rank among frequently discussed negative factors causing the population decline of the Little Owl. The aim of this study is to analyse land-use changes at nest sites of the Little Owl in the South-Moravian region (Czech Republic) between the years 1976/1977 and 2014. In both studied periods (1976/1977 and 2014), the most important land-use type within 500 m from the nest sites of the Little Owl was arable land (66.94 % - 62.25 %), followed by built-up areas (19.97 % -22.41 %), while the other land-use types made up less than 5 %. The proportion of the particular land-use type did not change significantly between the years 1976/1977 and 2014. The most important change in comparison with the period 1976/1977 was the decrease in the area of arable land by 4.69 % and that of orchards and gardens by 1.99 %, while the surface of built-up areas increased slightly by 2.45 % and that of meadows and pastures by 1.5 %. The analysis shows that at the known nest sites of the Little Owl in the South-Moravian region (Czech Republic), there were no significant changes in the proportion of the particular land-use types within 500 m from the nests between the years 1976/1977 and 2014. Based on these results, we can conclude that in comparison with the availability of nest sites, which seems to be the important limiting factor for the occurrence and population density of the Little Owl, land-use changes in study area were not very important factor influencing decline of the Little Owl.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

<a href="/en/project/DG16P02B014" target="_blank" >DG16P02B014: Cultural heritage of landscape of the Archidiocese of Olomouc - research, presentation and management</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Landscape Ecology(Czech Republic)

ISSN

1803-2427

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

19-34

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85057115482