Population trends of Goričko agricultural landscape birds
Abstract Due to numerous bird surveys in the past 20 years, the avifauna of Goričko is relatively well known. For some species, the very first national ecological researches were conducted in this area. The article summarizes all bird surveys so far. It presents population trends of farmland species...
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crdegruyter:10.1515/acro-2017-0009 2024-06-23T07:45:04+00:00 Population trends of Goričko agricultural landscape birds Denac, Katarina Kmecl, Primož Domanjko, Gregor Denac, Damijan 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/acro-2017-0009 http://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/acro/38/174-175/article-p127.xml https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.1515/acro-2017-0009 en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 Acrocephalus volume 38, issue 174-175, page 127-159 ISSN 0351-2851 journal-article 2017 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.1515/acro-2017-0009 2024-06-11T04:04:54Z Abstract Due to numerous bird surveys in the past 20 years, the avifauna of Goričko is relatively well known. For some species, the very first national ecological researches were conducted in this area. The article summarizes all bird surveys so far. It presents population trends of farmland species which is one of the most threatened bird groups in Europe. Most of the qualifying species of this habitat that are protected within the Natura 2000 network have suffered a decline at Goričko, specifically Quail Coturnix coturnix , Scops Owl Otus scops , Hoopoe Upupa epops , Woodlark Lullula arborea and White Stork Ciconia ciconia . The number of breeding pairs of the latter has not changed, but its fecundity has decreased. Furthermore, populations of other farmland bird species have decreased, for example Skylark Alauda arvensis , Stonechat Saxicola rubicola , Serin Serinus serinus and Common Linnet Linaria cannabina , as well as butterfly populations and tracts of grassland habitat types. National agricultural and nature conservation policies are evidently inefficient in protecting the biodiversity of Goričko. The most probable cause for bird population decline is agricultural intensification, which manifests itself at Goričko as disappearance and intensification of meadows, land consolidation, degradation of traditional orchards and use of pesticides. As a result of land consolidation hedges, uncultivated strips between fields, individual trees and bushes and minority habitat types are disappearing, whereas the surface of arable fields is increasing. Nature conservation measures performed by the Public Institute Goričko Nature Park with the support of DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia volunteers seem to be efficient, but are spatially and temporally constrained. For this reason, they cannot serve as a substitute for insufficient systemic financing which could be improved by substantive and financial reform of the agri-environmental scheme. Currently, a negligible percentage (1% in 2016) of Goričko is covered by ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Alauda arvensis De Gruyter Acrocephalus 38 174-175 127 159 |
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Abstract Due to numerous bird surveys in the past 20 years, the avifauna of Goričko is relatively well known. For some species, the very first national ecological researches were conducted in this area. The article summarizes all bird surveys so far. It presents population trends of farmland species which is one of the most threatened bird groups in Europe. Most of the qualifying species of this habitat that are protected within the Natura 2000 network have suffered a decline at Goričko, specifically Quail Coturnix coturnix , Scops Owl Otus scops , Hoopoe Upupa epops , Woodlark Lullula arborea and White Stork Ciconia ciconia . The number of breeding pairs of the latter has not changed, but its fecundity has decreased. Furthermore, populations of other farmland bird species have decreased, for example Skylark Alauda arvensis , Stonechat Saxicola rubicola , Serin Serinus serinus and Common Linnet Linaria cannabina , as well as butterfly populations and tracts of grassland habitat types. National agricultural and nature conservation policies are evidently inefficient in protecting the biodiversity of Goričko. The most probable cause for bird population decline is agricultural intensification, which manifests itself at Goričko as disappearance and intensification of meadows, land consolidation, degradation of traditional orchards and use of pesticides. As a result of land consolidation hedges, uncultivated strips between fields, individual trees and bushes and minority habitat types are disappearing, whereas the surface of arable fields is increasing. Nature conservation measures performed by the Public Institute Goričko Nature Park with the support of DOPPS – BirdLife Slovenia volunteers seem to be efficient, but are spatially and temporally constrained. For this reason, they cannot serve as a substitute for insufficient systemic financing which could be improved by substantive and financial reform of the agri-environmental scheme. Currently, a negligible percentage (1% in 2016) of Goričko is covered by ... |
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