Breeding bird sensitivity to urban habitat quality is multi-scale and strongly dependent on migratory behavior.

ABSTRACT: Human-caused conversion of natural habitat areas to developed land cover represents a major driver of habitat loss and fragmentation, leading to reorganization of biological communities. Although protected areas and urban greenspaces can preserve natural systems in fragmented landscapes, their efficacy has been stymied by the complexity and scale-dependency underlying biological communities. While migratory bird communities are easy to-study and particularly responsive to anthropogenic habitat alterations, prior studies have documented substantial variation in habitat sensitivity across species and migratory groups. This may make approaches that explicitly consider the hierarchical nature of ecological organization useful for planning and decision-making, particularly in developed landscap

SUBMITTER: Byer NW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11739834 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature