Multi-scale associations between vegetation cover and woodland bird communities across a large agricultural region.

ABSTRACT: Improving biodiversity conservation in fragmented agricultural landscapes has become an important global issue. Vegetation at the patch and landscape-scale is important for species occupancy and diversity, yet few previous studies have explored multi-scale associations between vegetation and community assemblages. Here, we investigated how patch and landscape-scale vegetation cover structure woodland bird communities. We asked: (1) How is the bird community associated with the vegetation structure of woodland patches and the amount of vegetation cover in the surrounding landscape? (2) Do species of conservation concern respond to woodland vegetation structure and surrounding vegetation cover differently to other species in the community? And (3) Can the relationships between the bird commu

SUBMITTER: Ikin K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4022507 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature