Birds as Useful Indicators of High Nature Value Farmlands

Using Species Distribution Models as a Tool for Monitoring the Health of Agro-ecosystems
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-84366-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 215 g

This book helps to establish a simple framework to identify and use bird species as a bioindicator for high nature value (HNV) farmlands.

This book focuses on suitable methods for monitoring the HNV areas, and presents the results of several case studies. The chapters put forward ways to integrate ecosystems assessment, geographical information systems (GIS) and strategies for conservation of local biodiversity. An innovative framework focuses on the use of species distribution models (SDMs) in order to explore the importance of each characteristic of HNV farmlands.

Furthermore, the book examines the relationships among bird species richness, land use diversity and landscape metrics at a local scale in the farmlands.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morelli, Federico

Tryjanowski, Piotr

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction2. Spread of the concept of HNV farmland in Europe: A systematic review3. Identifying HNV areas using Geographic Information Systems and landscape metrics4. Suitable methods to monitoring the HNV farmland using bird species
CASE STUDIES5. Bird as indicators of HNV: Case study in farmlands from Central Italy6. Birds as indicators of HNV: Case study in Portuguese cork oak montados7. Using IndVal to identify bird indicators of HNV in farmlands from Western Poland
8. Discussion and final considerations

Über Autor(innen)

Federico Morelli is a Quantitative Ecologist, currently working as Researcher at the Czech University of Life Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic). He has been involved in several European projects modelling the impact of land use and climate change on spatial distribution of biodiversity. The main focus of his research interests is related to the response of species distribution models to multiscale predictors, the effects of landscape metrics on biodiversity patterns, the development and test of several bioindicators and the general topics of macroecology.
Piotr Tryjanowski is a professor and director of the Institute of Zoology at Poznan University of Life Sciences. His research interest includes mainly ecology of vertebrates, with particular attention to the effect of climate and environmental changes on birds and mammals. For instance, since more than 25 years he studies farmland bird populations in Poland.