NDLI: Bird community responses to the edge between suburbs and reserves

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Ikin, Karen Barton, Philip S. Knight, Emma Lindenmayer, David B. Fischer, Joern Manning, Adrian D.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	New insights into community-level responses at the urban fringe, and the mechanisms underlying them, are needed. In our study, we investigated the compositional distinctiveness and variability of a breeding bird community at both sides of established edges between suburban residential areas and woodland reserves in Canberra, Australia. Our goals were to determine if: (1) community-level responses were direct (differed with distance from the edge, independent of vegetation) or indirect (differed in response to edge-related changes in vegetation), and (2) if guild-level responses provided the mechanism underpinning community-level responses. We found that suburbs and reserves supported significantly distinct bird communities. The suburban bird community, characterised by urban-adapted native and exotic species, had a weak direct edge response, with decreasing compositional variability with distance from the edge. In comparison, the reserve bird community, characterised by woodland-dependent species, was related to local tree and shrub cover. This was not an indirect response, however, as tree and shrub cover was not related to edge distance. We found that the relative richness of nesting, foraging and body size guilds also displayed similar edge responses, indicating that they underpinned the observed community-level responses. Our study illustrates how community-level responses provide valuable insights into how communities respond to differences in resources between two contrasting habitats. Further, the effects of the suburban matrix penetrate into reserves for greater distances than previously thought. Suburbs and adjacent reserves, however, provided important habitat resources for many native species and the conservation of these areas should not be discounted from continued management strategies.
Starting Page	545
Ending Page	557
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00298549
Journal	Oecologia
Volume Number	174
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	14321939
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2013-10-10
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Community composition Conservation management Edge effects Functional guilds Protected areas Ecology Plant Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Plant invasion science in protected areas: progress and priorities

Large Bird Declines with Increasing Human Pressure in Savanna Woodlands (Burkina Faso)

A comparative study of two community-based conservation models in Nepal

Strict reserves, IUCN classification, and the use of reserves for scientific research: a comment on Schultze et al. (2014)

Bird diversity and selection of protected areas in a large neotropical forest tract

How Well Will Brazil's System of Atlantic Forest Reserves Maintain Viable Bird Populations?

Criteria to evaluate the conservation value of strictly protected forest reserves in Central Europe

Estimating relative population size included within protected areas

Government targets for protected area management: will threatened butterflies benefit?

Bird community responses to the edge between suburbs and reserves

Similar Documents

Plant invasion science in protected areas: progress and priorities

Large Bird Declines with Increasing Human Pressure in Savanna Woodlands (Burkina Faso)

A comparative study of two community-based conservation models in Nepal

Strict reserves, IUCN classification, and the use of reserves for scientific research: a comment on Schultze et al. (2014)

Bird diversity and selection of protected areas in a large neotropical forest tract

How Well Will Brazil's System of Atlantic Forest Reserves Maintain Viable Bird Populations?

Criteria to evaluate the conservation value of strictly protected forest reserves in Central Europe

Estimating relative population size included within protected areas

Government targets for protected area management: will threatened butterflies benefit?

Bird community responses to the edge between suburbs and reserves