Bird species in Mediterranean pine plantations exhibit different characteristics to those in natural reforested woodlands
Identificadores
Enlace permanente (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/23077DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1849-0
ISSN: 0029-8549
Editor
Springer-Verlag
Fecha de publicación
2010Cita bibliográfica
Ecology, 2010, v.166, n.2, p.305-316
Palabras clave
Habitat restoration
Life history
Pheomelanin
Plumage colouration
Vegetation restoration
Proyectos
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/MEC//CGL2007-60533/ES/EFECTOS DE LA REVEGETACION (PASIVA Y ACTIVA) EN LA DINAMICA Y DIVERSIDAD DE ESPECIES LEÑOSAS Y AVES/
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//CGL2010-18312/ES/RESTAURACION DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD Y LOS SERVICIOS ECOSISTEMICOS EN SISTEMAS AGRARIOS. UN ENFOQUE MULTI-ESCALA/
Tipo de documento
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
Versión del editor
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-010-1849-0Derechos
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
© Springer-Verlag 2010
Derechos de acceso
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Resumen
Passive woodland regeneration following cropland abandonment and pine plantations are two major approaches for vegetation restoration in agricultural landscapes in the Mediterranean Basin. We compared the effects of these two contrasting approaches on local bird density in central Spain on the basis of species characteristics, including regional density, habitat breadth, life-history traits and plumage colouration. Local bird density increased with regional density and habitat breadth in both woodland and pine plantation plots following macroecological patterns of bird abundance and distribution. In woodlands, dichromatic species were more abundant than monochromatic species and bird density increased with the intensity of territory defense and as the proportion of plumage colour generated by pheomelanin decreased. Contrary to our prediction, this latter observation suggests that woodlands may induce higher levels of physiological stress in birds than pine plantations even though these represent a novel habitat change. In pine plantations, sedentary species were more abundant than migratory species and bird density was negatively related to body and egg mass. These traits of bird species in pine plantations are characteristic of successful invaders. The variation in bird density explained by phylogeny was twice as high in pine plantations as in woodlands, suggesting that pine plantations limit accessibility to some clades. Our results support, from an evolutionary perspective, the described inability of pine plantations on cropland to maintain or increase bird diversity in Mediterranean agricultural landscapes.
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