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Bibliothèque Influence of exurban development on bird species richness and diversity

Influence of exurban development on bird species richness and diversity

Influence of exurban development on bird species richness and diversity

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Date of publication
Décembre 2011
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AGRIS:US201301953316
Pages
461-471

Exurban development is an accelerating land use trend in the United States with new housing units emerging in formerly closed forests. Conservation practitioners and planners suspect exurban development alters ecological processes and biodiversity to a considerable larger extent than suspected by inhabitants of exurban development areas, but empirical support for this assertion is lacking. To examine the consequences of exurban development, we studied forest bird communities in exurban development and forests located in and around Shenandoah National Park and Massanutten Mountain in northern Virginia, USA. We conducted point-count surveys for birds three times at 106 sample locations from April to July 2006. We recorded 44 species in total; 30 species were present in both exurban development and forests, 9 species were only found in exurban development, and 5 species only in forest. Bird species composition differed significantly between land-use types based on analysis in a multi-response permutation procedure (MRPP; P

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Suarez-Rubio, Marcela
Leimgruber, Peter
Renner, Swen C.

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