Data from: Breeding bird species diversity across gradients of land use from forest to agriculture in Europe

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dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Helsinki - Koivula, Matti J.
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Turin - Chamberlain, Dan E.
dc.contributor.affiliationBritish Trust for Ornithology - Fuller, Robert J.
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Aberdeen - Palmer, Stephen C. F.
dc.contributor.affiliationHungarian Natural History Museum - Bankovics, Attila
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity College Dublin - Bracken, Fintan
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity College Dublin - Bolger, Tom
dc.contributor.affiliationComplutense University of Madrid - De Juana, Eduardo
dc.contributor.affiliationLes Granges Michel, Les Verrières de Joux; France* - Montadert, Marc
dc.contributor.affiliationMae D'agua, Consultoria Tecnica Em Areas De Interesse Natural; Portugal* - Neves, Renato
dc.contributor.affiliationTechnische Universität Braunschweig - Rufino, Rui
dc.contributor.affiliationComplutense University of Madrid - Sallent, Angel
dc.contributor.affiliationMae D'agua, Consultoria Tecnica Em Areas De Interesse Natural; Portugal* - Lopes da Silva, Luís
dc.contributor.affiliationHumboldt University of Berlin - Leitão, Pedro J.
dc.contributor.affiliationCentre for Ecology and Hydrology - Steffen, Manfred
dc.contributor.affiliationCentre for Ecology and Hydrology - Watt, Allan D.
dc.contributor.authorKoivula, Matti J.
dc.contributor.authorChamberlain, Dan E.
dc.contributor.authorFuller, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorPalmer, Stephen C. F.
dc.contributor.authorBankovics, Attila
dc.contributor.authorBracken, Fintan
dc.contributor.authorBolger, Tom
dc.contributor.authorDe Juana, Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorMontadert, Marc
dc.contributor.authorNeves, Renato
dc.contributor.authorRufino, Rui
dc.contributor.authorSallent, Angel
dc.contributor.authorLopes da Silva, Luís
dc.contributor.authorLeitão, Pedro J.
dc.contributor.authorSteffen, Manfred
dc.contributor.authorWatt, Allan D.
dc.coverage.spatialEurope
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-24T15:23:33Z
dc.date.issued2017-11-07
dc.date.issued2017-11-07
dc.descriptionLoss, fragmentation and decreasing quality of habitats have been proposed as major threats to biodiversity world-wide, but relatively little is known about biodiversity responses to multiple pressures, particularly at very large spatial scales. We evaluated the relative contributions of four landscape variables (habitat cover, diversity, fragmentation and productivity) in determining different components of avian diversity across Europe. We sampled breeding birds in multiple 1-km2 landscapes, from high forest cover to intensive agricultural land, in eight countries during 2001−02. We predicted that the total diversity would peak at intermediate levels of forest cover and fragmentation, and respond positively to increasing habitat diversity and productivity; forest and open-habitat specialists would show threshold conditions along gradients of forest cover and fragmentation, and respond positively to increasing habitat diversity and productivity; resident species would be more strongly impacted by forest cover and fragmentation than migratory species; and generalists and urban species would show weak responses. Measures of total diversity did not peak at intermediate levels of forest cover or fragmentation. Rarefaction-standardized species richness decreased marginally and linearly with increasing forest cover and increased non-linearly with productivity, whereas all measures increased linearly with increasing fragmentation and landscape diversity. Forest and open-habitat specialists responded approximately linearly to forest cover and also weakly to habitat diversity, fragmentation and productivity. Generalists and urban species responded weakly to the landscape variables, but some groups responded non-linearly to productivity and marginally to habitat diversity. Resident species were not consistently more sensitive than migratory species to any of the landscape variables. These findings are relevant to landscapes with relatively long histories of human land-use, and they highlight that habitat loss, fragmentation and habitat-type diversity must all be considered in land-use planning and landscape modeling of avian communities.
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ts57v
dc.identifier.urihttps://hydatakatalogi-test-24.it.helsinki.fi/handle/123456789/11239
dc.rightsOpen
dc.rights.licensecc-zero
dc.subjectregion
dc.subjectHolocene
dc.titleData from: Breeding bird species diversity across gradients of land use from forest to agriculture in Europe
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