Birds

Home-garden connectivity rather than tree-cover connectivity facilitates biodiversity in fragmented tropical forest landscapes

Context Forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a global strategy to address forest fragmentation and degradation, yet, its …

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Habitat suitability for Sociable Lapwing (Vanellus gregarius) increases across its global range, but populations continue to decline
Migratory birds are among the most threatened animals globally. Environmental drivers of bird distributions outside the breeding …
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Landscape composition drives winter bird assemblages in agriculture-savanna mosaics of western India
Avian biodiversity in agricultural landscapes is declining globally. In Europe and America, agricultural homogenization and the decline …
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A novel, post-Soviet fire disturbance regime drives bird diversity and abundance on the Eurasian steppe
Many grassland ecosystems and their associated biodiversity depend on the interactions between fire and land-use, both of which are …
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How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?
Land-use change is a root cause of the extinction crisis, but links between habitat change and biodiversity loss are not fully …
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Changes in agriculture-biodiversity trade-offs in relation to landscape context in the Argentine Chaco
Better balancing agricultural production and biodiversity conservation is a central goal for many landscapes. Yet, empirical work on …
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Untangling the imprints of climate, geography and land use/cover on bird diversity in the South American Gran Chaco

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To evaluate the structure of bird communities throughout the South American Gran Chaco determining the effects of climate, …

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Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco
World-wide, tropical savannas and dry forests are under increasing pressure from land use. The environmental impacts of agricultural …
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Trade-offs between carbon stocks and biodiversity in European temperate forests
Policies to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss often assume that protecting carbon-rich forests provides co-benefits in …
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Mapping extinction debt highlights conservation opportunities for birds and mammals in the South American Chaco
Habitat loss is the primary cause of local extinctions. Yet, there is considerable uncertainty regarding how fast species respond to …
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