The environmental impacts of biomass crops: use by birds of miscanthus in summer and winter in southwestern England

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: Sage, R., Cunningham, M., Haughton, A. J., Mallott, M. D., Bohan, D. A., Riche, A. B., Karp, A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2010
• Subjects: Ornithology; Giganteus; Woodcock; Alauda arvensis
• Online Access: https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/item/8q66q/the-environmental-impacts-of-biomass-crops-use-by-birds-of-miscanthus-in-summer-and-winter-in-southwestern-england; https://repository.rothamsted.ac.uk/download/ad9eabf24aa7ce9be3f52eb8c7df11aba509327d91779994c27293abfe86416b/3650338/SAGE_et_al-2010-Ibis.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01027.x

We compared birds in a group of established and well-managed miscanthus (Miscanthus x giganteus) fields in Somerset and East Devon, southwestern England, with plots of short rotation coppice (SRC) willow, arable crops and grassland in two winters and one summer. Following early spring cutting, 19 mi...