Agricultural landscapes as habitat for birds in central Chile

Maintaining and Restoring Avian Habitat in Agricultural Landscapes

Disease Risks ·Posed by Wild Birds Associated with Agricultural Landscapes

Prairie strips as a mechanism to promote land sharing by birds in industrial agricultural landscapes

Reserving large patches of perennial vegetation has been shown to facilitate biodiversity conservation in industrial agricultural landscapes, but high demand for agricultural products challenges their establishment. Responding to this situation, in 2007, we experimentally integrated diverse native perennial vegetation (i.e., prairie) within annual row crops as a part of the Science-based Trials...

Decoupling fragmentation from habitat loss for spiders in patchy agricultural landscapes.

Habitat loss reduces species diversity, but the effect of habitat fragmentation on number of species is less clear because fragmentation generally accompanies loss of habitat. We compared four methods that aim to decouple the effects of fragmentation from the effects of habitat loss. Two methods are based on species-area relations, one on Fisher's alpha index of diversity, and one on plots of c...

Evaluating topographic wetness indices across central New York agricultural landscapes

Accurately predicting soil moisture patterns in the landscape is a persistent challenge. In humid regions, topographic wetness indices (TWIs) are widely used to approximate relative soil moisture patterns. However, there are many ways to calculate TWIs and very few field studies have evaluated the different approaches – especially in the US. We calculated TWIs using over 400 unique formulations...