Major trends in the avifauna in old farming districts in the boreal zone of Northwest Russia
Major trends have been identified in the alteration of the avifauna under the effect of old agrarian land use in boreal parts of Northwest Russia. The structure of habitats in a northern mosaic agrolandscape typical of the household-based agriculture era, includes open farmland, small villages, wood...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:dbf8f6db169547c09d752d33297a85c2 2023-05-15T17:46:02+02:00 Major trends in the avifauna in old farming districts in the boreal zone of Northwest Russia Sergey Sazonov 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.17076/bg29 https://doaj.org/article/dbf8f6db169547c09d752d33297a85c2 EN RU eng rus Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences http://journals.krc.karelia.ru/index.php/biogeo/article/view/29 https://doaj.org/toc/1997-3217 https://doaj.org/toc/2312-4504 1997-3217 2312-4504 doi:10.17076/bg29 https://doaj.org/article/dbf8f6db169547c09d752d33297a85c2 Transactions of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Iss 1, Pp 21-44 (2015) bird fauna and population mosaic agrolandscape slash-and-burn agriculture old agrarian land use districts boreal northwest russia Science Q article 2015 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.17076/bg29 2022-12-31T01:16:11Z Major trends have been identified in the alteration of the avifauna under the effect of old agrarian land use in boreal parts of Northwest Russia. The structure of habitats in a northern mosaic agrolandscape typical of the household-based agriculture era, includes open farmland, small villages, wooded pastures/corridors, secondary forests after slash-and-burn clearing, and forests replacing old arable land. The bird population composition is the most specific in open farmland and small villages, where the prevalent aspect is the 'follower' bird species associated with pastures, meadows and residential areas, originating from Neolithic agrarian civilizations of Western Asia and Near East, as well as medieval centres of horticulture in European forest-steppe regions. In the past, habitats in the periphery of a mosaic agrolandscape - wooded pastures and slash-and-burn forests, used to occupy 1.5-2 times as much space as open cultivated farmland or even more. Their contribution to the total effect of agrarian land use in boreal regions on avifauna transformation was the most significant. Logically, man-induced transformation of natural habitats by traditional agriculture affected primarily the fauna and population of forest-dwelling birds. A positive effect of slash-and-burn agriculture on the occurrence and abundance of birds has been observed for 40 species showing preference for early stages of forest succession and for boreonemoral communities. At the same time, the abundance of 19 native boreal species which prefer old-growth coniferous forest has declined considerably, sometimes up to extinction from wooded corridors. Wooded corridors and forests after slash-and-burn clearing, which occupy a substantial share of the present-day forest fund structure, still play an essential role in the current general fauna-shaping process in boreal regions of Northwest Russia. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northwest Russia Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Proceedings of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences 1 21 |
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Major trends have been identified in the alteration of the avifauna under the effect of old agrarian land use in boreal parts of Northwest Russia. The structure of habitats in a northern mosaic agrolandscape typical of the household-based agriculture era, includes open farmland, small villages, wooded pastures/corridors, secondary forests after slash-and-burn clearing, and forests replacing old arable land. The bird population composition is the most specific in open farmland and small villages, where the prevalent aspect is the 'follower' bird species associated with pastures, meadows and residential areas, originating from Neolithic agrarian civilizations of Western Asia and Near East, as well as medieval centres of horticulture in European forest-steppe regions. In the past, habitats in the periphery of a mosaic agrolandscape - wooded pastures and slash-and-burn forests, used to occupy 1.5-2 times as much space as open cultivated farmland or even more. Their contribution to the total effect of agrarian land use in boreal regions on avifauna transformation was the most significant. Logically, man-induced transformation of natural habitats by traditional agriculture affected primarily the fauna and population of forest-dwelling birds. A positive effect of slash-and-burn agriculture on the occurrence and abundance of birds has been observed for 40 species showing preference for early stages of forest succession and for boreonemoral communities. At the same time, the abundance of 19 native boreal species which prefer old-growth coniferous forest has declined considerably, sometimes up to extinction from wooded corridors. Wooded corridors and forests after slash-and-burn clearing, which occupy a substantial share of the present-day forest fund structure, still play an essential role in the current general fauna-shaping process in boreal regions of Northwest Russia. |
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