Impact of Management on Avian Communities in the Scottish Highlands.

ABSTRACT: The protection of biodiversity is a key national and international policy objective. While protected areas provide one approach, a major challenge lies in understanding how the conservation of biodiversity can be achieved in the context of multiple land management objectives in the wider countryside. Here we analyse metrics of bird diversity in the Scottish uplands in relation to land management types and explore how bird species composition varies in relation to land managed for grazing, hunting and conservation. Birds were surveyed on the heather moorland areas of 26 different landholdings in Scotland. The results indicate that, in relation to dominant management type, the composition of bird species varies but measures of diversity and species richness do not. Intensive management for g

SUBMITTER: Newey S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4873258 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature