Rural landscape dynamics over time and its consequences for habitat preference patterns of the grey partridge Perdix perdix.

ABSTRACT: Intensification of agricultural practices has drastically shaped farmland landscapes and generally caused a decline in spatial and temporal heterogeneity, thus leading to changes in habitat quality and food resources and a decline for most farmland birds Europe-wide. The relationship between complex landscape changes and habitat preferences of animals still remains poorly understood. Particularly, temporal and spatial changes in diversity may affect not only habitat choice but also population sizes. To answer that question, we have looked into a severely declining typical farmland bird species, the grey partridge Perdix perdix in a diverse farmland landscape near Vienna to investigate the specific habitat preferences in respect to the change of agricultural landscape over two decades and g

SUBMITTER: Hille SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8376057 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature