Authors
Zuzanna M Rosin, Matthew Hiron, Michał Żmihorski, Paweł Szymański, Marcin Tobolka, Tomas Pärt
Publication date
2020/3
Journal
Journal of Applied Ecology
Volume
57
Issue
3
Pages
467-475
Description
- Despite large conservation efforts to halt the loss of farmland biodiversity in Europe, negative population trends are still observed, especially for common species. Old villages and human settlements are biodiversity hotspots and important breeding habitats for farmland birds, but recent requirements for energy saving measures and improved living comfort have changed their architecture and habitats. Consequently, modernization of villages may negatively affect bird diversity due to the loss of nesting and foraging sites.
- We investigated how the abundance and diversity of birds breeding in 104 Polish villages varied in relation to the degree of modernization as estimated by the proportion of new and renovated homesteads.
- Abundance of building‐nesting species, but not tree‐nesting species, declined by 50% across a gradient of old to highly modernized villages. The contribution of new versus renovated houses …
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