Range-wide breeding habitat use of the critically endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola after population collapse.

ABSTRACT: The population of the Yellow-breasted Bunting Emberiza aureola, a formerly widely distributed and abundant songbird of northern Eurasia, suffered a catastrophic decline and a strong range contraction between 1980 and 2013. There is evidence that the decline was driven by illegal trapping during migration, but potential contributions of other factors to the decline, such as land-use change, have not yet been evaluated. Before the effects of land-use change can be evaluated, a basic understanding of the ecological requirements of the species is needed. We therefore compared habitat use in ten remaining breeding regions across the range, from European Russia to Japan and the Russian Far East. We also assessed large-scale variation in habitat parameters across the breeding range. We fou

SUBMITTER: Beermann I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8258230 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature