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Vélová L, Véle A, Peltanová A, Šafářová L, Menendéz R, Horák J. High‐, medium‐, and low‐dispersal animal taxa communities in fragmented urban grasslands. Ecosphere 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4441] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Lucie Vélová
- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic
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- Forestry & Game Management Research Institute Jíloviště Czech Republic
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic
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- East Bohemian Museum in Pardubice Pardubice Czech Republic
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- Lancaster Environment Centre Lancaster University Lancaster UK
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- Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science University of Hradec Králové Hradec Králové Czech Republic
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Huang P, Zheng D, Yan Y, Xu W, Zhao Y, Huang Z, Ding Y, Lin Y, Zhu Z, Chen Z, Fu W. Effects of Landscape Features on Bird Community in Winter Urban Parks. Animals (Basel) 2022; 12:ani12233442. [PMID: 36496963 PMCID: PMC9735841 DOI: 10.3390/ani12233442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2022] [Revised: 12/04/2022] [Accepted: 12/05/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Urban parks, as critical components of the urban green space, have practical significance in studying the influence of landscape characteristics on birds. Nine urban parks in Fuzhou, China, were used as study objects to explore the influence of landscape features (patch, landscape, and surrounding environment indices) on bird communities. The results showed that (1) from December 2021 to February 2022, we found a total of 2874 individuals belonging to 61 species of 9 orders, 32 families, which were dominated by the birds of Passeriformes (37 species of 24 families, accounting for 89.91% of the total number of individuals) and resident birds in Fuzhou urban parks (n = 30; 85.46%); (2) The park area, park perimeter, woodland area, grassland area, and the park shape index increased as the distance to the city center increases; (3) Bird diversity responds differently to different landscape features. The total abundance of birds, the abundance of winter migrant birds, and the richness of winter migrant birds increased with the park area. And the park shape index affects positively for the the α-diversity of birds and the abundance of resident birds. Woodland proportion and waterbody shape index affected positively on the richness and α-diversity of resident birds. To promote the diversity of regional birds, it is recommended that the construction and planning of urban parks should enlarge the park area as much as possible, increase the proportion of woodland, and make shorelines more irregular. Our study could serve as a reference for the construction of biodiversity enhancements in core green areas of urban parks.
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- Peilin Huang
- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Fujian University of Technology, 33 Xuefunan Rd, Fuzhou 350118, China
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- College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Fujian University of Technology, 33 Xuefunan Rd, Fuzhou 350118, China
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- College of Landscape Architecture and Art, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, 15 Shangxiadian Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
- Engineering Research Center for Forest Park of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 63 Xiyuangong Rd, Fuzhou 350002, China
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Lauro B, MacGregor-Fors I. Patterns of Avian Diversity for a Maritime Ecosystem at Orient Beach State Park on Long Island, New York. Northeast Nat (Steuben) 2022. [DOI: 10.1656/045.029.0306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Brook Lauro
- Deparment of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science, Collins College of Professional Studies, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY 11439
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- Department of Biological, and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Niemenkatu 73, Lahti 15140, Finland
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Mladenović S, Loskotová T, Boháč J, Pavlíček J, Brestovanský J, Horák J. The effects of within stand disturbance in plantation forests indicate complex and contrasting responses among and within beetle families. BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2018; 108:750-764. [PMID: 29307311 DOI: 10.1017/s0007485317001304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
Plantation forests with timber production as the major function are highly fragmented and disturbed regarding the tree species composition and stand area. Their closed canopies also have different microclimatic conditions compared with better studied conservation areas. We studied three beetle families (click, longhorn, and rove beetles) with different ecological demands in lowland plantation forests dominated by Sessile oak and Norway spruce in the Czech Republic. Our main interest was how their species richness, abundance, diversity, body length, rarity, red-list status, species composition and individual species were driven by the main tree species, stand area and canopy openness. We analyzed 3466 individuals from 198 beetle species and the results revealed complex and contrasting responses of the studied beetle families - click beetles mostly preferred sun-exposure and spruce as the dominant tree species, longhorn beetles mainly preferred large stands, whereas rove beetles were mostly influenced by oak as the dominant tree species and increasing area. We also observed that some species had different preferences in plantation forests than is known from the literature. The main conclusions of our results are that the dominance of non-natural spruce plantations and a large stand area (both originating from artificially replanted large clear-cuts) did not affect the majority of the studied taxa as we expected. On the other hand, our results might have been influenced by other factor, such as the current small total area of the former vegetation, which in the past might have led to extinction debt; or a large area of other conifers in the surroundings that might have promoted conifer-associated fauna.
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- S Mladenović
- Department of Forest Protection and Entomology,Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences,Czech University of Life Sciences Prague,Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague,Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Protection and Entomology,Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences,Czech University of Life Sciences Prague,Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague,Czech Republic
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- Department of Plant Production and Agroecology,Faculty of Agriculture,University Of South Bohemia,Studentská 13, CZ-37005 České Budějovice,Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Protection and Entomology,Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences,Czech University of Life Sciences Prague,Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague,Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Protection and Entomology,Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences,Czech University of Life Sciences Prague,Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague,Czech Republic
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- Department of Forest Protection and Entomology,Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences,Czech University of Life Sciences Prague,Kamýcká 1176, CZ-165 21 Prague,Czech Republic
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