Bird species richness and diversity responses to land use change in the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya.

ABSTRACT: The increasing demand for cultivated lands driven by human population growth, escalating consumption and activities, combined with the vast area of uncultivated land, highlight the pressing need to better understand the biodiversity conservation implications of land use change in Sub-Saharan Africa. Land use change alters natural wildlife habitats with fundamental consequences for biodiversity. Consequently, species richness and diversity typically decline as land use changes from natural to disturbed. We assess how richness and diversity of avian species, grouped into feeding guilds, responded to land use changes, primarily expansion of settlements and cultivation at three sites in the Lake Victoria Basin in western Kenya, following tsetse control interventions. Each site consisted of a m

SUBMITTER: Mugatha SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10798997 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature