Seasonal shift of foraging habitat among farmland breeding Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata
The importance of landscape heterogeneity for farmland birds is widely recognized, but the underlying processes remain unclear. Here I investigate the distribution of foraging and non-foraging Eurasian Curlews over agricultural treatment classes during the breeding season. The results show that Eura...
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ftslunivuppsala:oai:pub.epsilon.slu.se:10584 2023-05-15T17:47:18+02:00 Seasonal shift of foraging habitat among farmland breeding Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata Jong, Adriaan de 2012 application/pdf https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/10584/ https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/10584/1/de_jong_a_130702.pdf https://boap.uib.no/index.php/ornis/article/viewFile/237/292 en eng eng https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/10584/1/de_jong_a_130702.pdf Jong, Adriaan de (2012). Seasonal shift of foraging habitat among farmland breeding Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata. Ornis Norvegica. 35 , 23-27 [Research article] Ecology Research article PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2012 ftslunivuppsala 2022-01-09T19:12:52Z The importance of landscape heterogeneity for farmland birds is widely recognized, but the underlying processes remain unclear. Here I investigate the distribution of foraging and non-foraging Eurasian Curlews over agricultural treatment classes during the breeding season. The results show that Eurasian Curlews used grassland for foraging early in the breeding season but shifted to cereal fields later. Contrastingly, the distribution of non-foraging Eurasian Curlews over treatment classes rarely deviated from random. I conclude that relative foraging habitat quality changed among the investigated agricultural treatment classes and that landscapes containing more than one treatment class have higher overall quality for Curlews. Preserving or creating landscapes with a mix of different kinds of commercially managed fields is a relatively cheap and easily accepted farmland bird conservation measure. Article in Journal/Newspaper Numenius arquata Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU): Epsilon Open Archive |
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The importance of landscape heterogeneity for farmland birds is widely recognized, but the underlying processes remain unclear. Here I investigate the distribution of foraging and non-foraging Eurasian Curlews over agricultural treatment classes during the breeding season. The results show that Eurasian Curlews used grassland for foraging early in the breeding season but shifted to cereal fields later. Contrastingly, the distribution of non-foraging Eurasian Curlews over treatment classes rarely deviated from random. I conclude that relative foraging habitat quality changed among the investigated agricultural treatment classes and that landscapes containing more than one treatment class have higher overall quality for Curlews. Preserving or creating landscapes with a mix of different kinds of commercially managed fields is a relatively cheap and easily accepted farmland bird conservation measure. |
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Seasonal shift of foraging habitat among farmland breeding Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata |
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https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/10584/1/de_jong_a_130702.pdf Jong, Adriaan de (2012). Seasonal shift of foraging habitat among farmland breeding Eurasian Curlews Numenius arquata. Ornis Norvegica. 35 , 23-27 [Research article] |
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