Low effect on open-farmland birds of young afforestations in heterogeneous Mediterranean croplands
Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/38649DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1453
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/f11050527
Date
2015Funders
Ministerio de Ciencia y Educación
Comunidad de Madrid
Fundación Internacional para la Restauración de Ecosistemas
Bibliographic citation
PeerJ, 2015, v. E1453, n. , p. -
Keywords
Conservation status
Distance effects
Land use types
Pine plantations
Species richness
CAP
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//CGL2014-53308-P/ES/SERVICIOS DE LA AVIFAUNA (HIGH MOBILE LINK SPECIES) EN MOSAICOS AGROFORESTALES: REGENERACION FORESTAL Y REGULACION DE PLAGAS/
S2013/MAE-2719 REMEDINAL-3 (Comunidad de Madrid)
Fundación Internacional para la Restauración de Ecosistemas
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/CAM//S2009%2FAMB-1783/ES/Restauración y conservación de los ecosistemas madrileños: respuesta frente al cambio global/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//CGL2010-18312/ES/RESTAURACION DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD Y LOS SERVICIOS ECOSISTEMICOS EN SISTEMAS AGRARIOS. UN ENFOQUE MULTI-ESCALA/
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
© 2015 Sanchez-Oliver et al.
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
Afforestation programs such as the one promoted by the EU Common Agricultural Policy have spread tree plantations on former cropland. These afforestations attract generalist forest and ubiquitous species but may cause severe damage to open habitat species, especially birds of high conservation value. We investigated the effects of young (<20 yr) tree plantations dominated by pine P. halepensis on bird communities inhabiting the adjacent open farmland habitat in central Spain. We hypothesize that pine plantations located at shorter distances from open fields and with larger surface would affect species richness and conservation value of bird communities. Regression models controlling for the influence of land use types around plantations revealed positive effects of higher distance to pine plantation edge on community species richness in winter, and negative effects on an index of conservation concern (SPEC) during the breeding season. However, plantation area did not have any effect on species richness or community conservation value. Our results indicate that the effects of pine afforestation on bird communities inhabiting Mediterranean cropland are diluted by heterogeneous agricultural landscapes.
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