Drivers of the taxonomic and functional structuring of aquatic and terrestrial floodplain bird communities.

ABSTRACT:

Context

There has been a limited amount of research which comparatively examines the local and landscape scale ecological determinants of the community structure of both riparian and aquatic bird communities in floodplain ecosystems.

Objectives

Here, we quantified the contribution of local habitat structure, land cover and spatial configuration of the sampling sites to the taxonomical and functional structuring of aquatic and terrestrial bird communities in a relatively intact floodplain of the river Danube, Hungary.

Methods

We used the relative abundance of species and foraging guilds as response variables in partial redundancy analyses to determine the relative importance of each variable group.

Results

Local-scale characteristics of the water bodies proved t

SUBMITTER: Onodi G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11374819 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature