Habitat associations of British breeding farmland birds

Habitat Associations of Nebraska Birds

Ordinations of Habitat Relationships among Breeding Birds

I N an attempt to express habitat relationships in a new way, I have applied two methods of multivariate analysis to a large set of data pertaining to the habitats of 46 species of common breeding birds. The question asked was : How do these species distribute themselves with respect to the structure of the vegetation? This required (1) devising field techniques that would give quantitative mea...

Is breeding of farmland wading birds depressed by a combination of predator abundance and grazing?

Agri-environment schemes have been implemented across Europe to counter biodiversity loss in agricultural landscapes and halt the continual decline of farmland birds, including waders. Such schemes provide financial compensation for changes in agricultural practice, including livestock grazing regimes. Scheme uptake has been variable, partly because farmers believe that other factors, notably p...

Captive Breeding of Birds

Regionalizing land use impacts on farmland birds

The environmental impacts of land use vary regionally. Differences in geomorphology, climate, landscape structure, and biotope inventories are regarded as the main causes of this variation. We present a methodological approach for identifying regional responses in land use type to large-scale changes and the implications for the provision of habitat for farmland birds. The methodological innova...