Small islands in the wide open sea: The importance of non-farmed habitats under power pylons for mammals in agricultural landscape

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41320/23:97047 RIV/60460709:41330/23:97047 RIV/60076658:12310/23:43907302 RIV/00020702:_____/23:N0000079

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880923001597?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880923001597?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108500" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.agee.2023.108500</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Small islands in the wide open sea: The importance of non-farmed habitats under power pylons for mammals in agricultural landscape

Original language description

Current lowland agricultural landscapes are characterized by a low representation of biodiversity-rich semi-natural habitats. Even in structurally simple farmlands, the presence of in-field, non-farmed habitats may be beneficial for species persistence. Here, for the first time, we evaluated the importance of non-farmed habitats under high-voltage power line infrastructure for medium-sized mammals inhabiting the intensively-used agricultural landscape. We found the clear choice (in terms of visit frequency and use-intensity) of power pylons over adjacent farmland by individual mammalian species during the winter, with a clear preference for power pylons for dominant species (European hare, roe deer, and red fox). Similarly, our results also revealed that individual mammalian species spend more time and showed a higher share of comfort behavior (e.g., feeding, resting for herbivores, and sniffing for carnivores) under power pylons, while the species mainly passed through the adjacent farmland. Finally, analyses focusing on the effect of local and landscape characteristics on mammal use-intensity underneath power pylons have revealed significant results only for European hare. European hare's use-intensity increased with higher shrub density under power pylons, higher distance to the field edge, and shorter distance to shrub patches. Our findings demonstrated that power line infrastructure might represent crucial in-field non-farmed habitats, offering suitable resting and foraging habitats for various mammal species in agricultural landscape. These habitats may significantly contribute to increasing the biological potential of structurally simple farmlands, which should be taken into consideration in conservation planning within agroecosystems.

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

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/SS05010238" target="_blank" >SS05010238: Conservation measures for fragmented populations of European hare (Lepus europaeus) in contrasting farmlands: from research to applied conservation</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

ISSN

0167-8809

e-ISSN

1873-2305

Volume of the periodical

351

Issue of the periodical within the volume

August

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

108500

UT code for WoS article

001054845000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85151036048