Seasonal variation in bird species richness and abundance across contrasting farmland: The importance of heterogeneous and non-cropped habitats

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41330/25:102120 RIV/61989592:15410/25:73631125

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880925001483" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880925001483</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109616" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.agee.2025.109616</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Seasonal variation in bird species richness and abundance across contrasting farmland: The importance of heterogeneous and non-cropped habitats

Original language description

Knowledge concerning seasonal changes of species richness and abundance across different habitats is an important step to understand crucial landscape features for the conservation of declining species. This is especially the case in highly human-dominated agricultural landscapes, which have undergone massive changes in land use structure and intensity over the last decades. Here, we evaluated the seasonal importance of different cropped and non-cropped habitats for farmland birds, representing a rapidly declining species group, across various farmland habitat types. Using generalized linear mixed models and species-habitat networks, we studied changes in species richness, abundance, and habitat associations of farmland birds in five typical and widespread cropped or non-cropped habitat types within Central European farmland. We show that heterogeneous arable habitats had greater species richness than other habitat types, and open scrubland and heterogeneous arable habitats hosted the highest abundance of birds throughout the year. In contrast, among the studied habitat types, homogeneous arable habitat was typically associated with lower bird abundance and species richness. However, habitat associations of farmland birds changed seasonally, with heterogenous arable land being most important during the breeding season, open scrubland during post-breeding, and farmland hedges during winter. Similarly, we found clear seasonal and species-specific shifts in habitat affinity when considering species traits, such as habitat specialization, diet specialization, and nesting type. Overall, our findings provide clear evidence of the importance of heterogenous arable habitats and open scrubland in general for birds occurring in agricultural areas, and of the seasonal importance of specific habitat types for individual stages of the annual cycle, such as breeding and overwintering. This will help to identify seasonally important habitat types for the conservation of declining farmland bird species across Europe.

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

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

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

386

Issue of the periodical within the volume

109616

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

109616

UT code for WoS article

001443952200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-86000281444