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Edge effect of low-traffic forest roads on bird communities in secondary production forests in central Europe
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SYSNO ASEP 0346284 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Edge effect of low-traffic forest roads on bird communities in secondary production forests in central Europe Author(s) Šálek, M. (CZ)
Svobodová, Jana (UBO-W)
Zasadil, P. (CZ)Number of authors 3 Source Title Landscape Ecology. - : Springer - ISSN 0921-2973
Roč. 25, č. 7 (2010), s. 1113-1124Number of pages 12 s. Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords Biodiversity ; Bird assemblages ; Czech Republic ; Edge effect ; Habitat fragmentation ; Landscape structure ; Point count method Subject RIV EH - Ecology, Behaviour CEZ AV0Z60930519 - UBO-W (2005-2011) UT WOS 000279592100010 EID SCOPUS 77954426125 DOI 10.1007/s10980-010-9487-9 Annotation Worldwide forests fragmentation has lead to a massive increase of habitat edges, creating both negative and positive impacts on birds. While busy highways dissecting forested areas create edges which are known to reduce bird densities due to the disturbing effect of noise, the impacts of logging forest roads with low traffic volumes have rarely been studied. In this study, we compared species richness and similarity of canopy, cavity and shrub guilds of birds along low-traffic forest roads, in forest interior, and at forest edges in secondary forests in central Europe, where the forests have passed through extensive changes toward uniformly compact growths dominated by production conifers. Although we found tree diversity as positively affecting bird richness across all habitats, the bird richness along forest roads was higher than in forest interior but lower than along forest edges. Workplace Institute of Vertebrate Biology Contact Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524 Year of Publishing 2011
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