Disentangling direct and indirect effects of landscape structure on urban bird richness and functional diversity.

ABSTRACT: As fragmented landscapes become increasingly common around the world, managing the spatial arrangement of landscape elements (i.e., landscape configuration) may help to promote the conservation of biodiversity. However, the relative effects of landscape configuration on different dimensions of biodiversity across species assemblages are largely unknown. Thus, a key challenge consists in understanding when it is necessary to focus on landscape configuration, in addition to landscape composition, to achieve multifunctional landscapes. We tested the effects of landscape composition (the percentage of tree cover and built infrastructure) and landscape configuration (degree of fragmentation) on landscape-level species richness and different metrics of functional diversity of urban birds. We col

SUBMITTER: Suarez-Castro AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10077913 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature