Increase in breeding bird abundance and diversity with semi-natural habitat in vineyard landscapes.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural expansion and intensification are major threats to biodiversity, and even some once common farmland bird species are now endangered. Wine-growing landscapes are intensively managed but can still be an attractive habitat for a wide range of species. However, only few bird species breed within vineyards and thus, semi-natural habitat types like hedges, woodland patches and grasslands are crucial for bird populations. We investigated how birds breeding in wine-growing areas are influenced by the surrounding landscape at three spatial scales: territories, sampling transects and landscapes. In the German wine growing region Palatinate, sixteen landscapes with a radius of 500 m were chosen spanning a gradient in the cover of semi-natural habitat. Bird territories were mapped along t

SUBMITTER: Rosch V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10441799 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature