Temporal and Spatial Scales Matter: Circannual Habitat Selection by Bird Communities in Vineyards.

ABSTRACT: Vineyards are likely to be regionally important for wildlife, but we lack biodiversity studies in this agroecosystem which is undergoing a rapid management revolution. As vine cultivation is restricted to arid and warm climatic regions, biodiversity-friendly management would promote species typical of southern biomes. Vineyards are often intensively cultivated, mostly surrounded by few natural features and offering a fairly mineral appearance with little ground vegetation cover. Ground vegetation cover and composition may further strongly vary with respect to season, influencing patterns of habitat selection by ecological communities. We investigated season-specific bird-habitat associations to highlight the importance of semi-natural habitat features and vineyard ground vegetation cover t

SUBMITTER: Guyot C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5287466 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature