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Open AccessImpacts of sheep versus cattle livestock systems on birds of Mediterranean grasslands
Mediterranean pastures are experiencing strong changes in management, involving shifts from sheep to cattle-based livestock systems. The impacts of such shifts on biodiversity are still poorly understood. Here...
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Linking Landscape Ecology and Macroecology by Scaling Biodiversity in Space and Time
Despite the decades-long recognition of the importance of scaling in ecology, our knowledge about many ecological patterns and processes is still largely restricted to particular spatial and temporal scale dom...
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Mismatches between habitat preferences and risk avoidance for birds in intensive Mediterranean farmland
Land use intensification may create habitats that organisms perceive as suitable, but where reproduction or survival is insufficient to maintain self-sustaining populations. Such conditions may qualify as ecol...
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Landscape makers and landscape takers: links between farming systems and landscape patterns along an intensification gradient
Agricultural intensification is a leading cause of landscape homogenization, with negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Conserving or promoting heterogeneity requires a detailed unders...
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Influence of moonlight on nightjars’ vocal activity: a guideline for nightjar surveys in Europe
Strictly nocturnal or crepuscular habits on birds are restricted to a very limited number of species such as nightjars. Physiological skills of these species combined with ecological and behavioural adaptation...
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Predators and livestock reduce bird nest survival in intensive Mediterranean farmland
High nest predation is one of the factors potentially driving farmland bird declines, particularly in the case of ground-nesting species. Accordingly, recent calls have been made to address predation in agri-e...
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Seasonal patterns of spatial variation in understory bird assemblages across a mosaic of flooded and unflooded Amazonian forests
We examined seasonal patterns of spatial variation in understory bird assemblages across a mosaic of upland and floodplain forests in central Amazonia, where variation in flooding patterns and floodwater nutri...
