{"id":9739,"date":"2024-05-06T11:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2024-05-06T11:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T08:01:13","slug":"new-publication-cropland-can-support-high-bird-diversity-in-heterogeneous-rural-tropical-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/new-publication-cropland-can-support-high-bird-diversity-in-heterogeneous-rural-tropical-landscapes","title":{"rendered":"New publication: Cropland can support high bird diversity in heterogeneous rural tropical landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary
\n<\/strong>Land-use change for crop production is one of the key drivers of habitat loss and fragmentation and consequently biodiversity loss and change in tropical regions. This may impact biodiversity- regulated ecosystem services; birds are important to crop health regulating services (eg. seed dispersal, pest control) and disservices (e.g. seed predation, grain herbivory). However, know- ledge is limited on how birds<\/a> use heterogeneous agricultural landscapes and the consequences for spatial distribution and flow of services and disservices. We studied crop and non-crop- habitat associations of birds in forest-agricultural landscapes of the Kilombero<\/a> Valley, Tanzania We focused on dietary preference as a key trait impacting bird responses to land-use change. services, and disservices to crops. We surveyed birds across four main habitat types using repeated point counts, recording a total of 148 species. We found that crop habitats supported higher species richness and larger communities<\/a> of potentially beneficial species to crop health, whereby 34.5% of invertebrate-feeding species were recorded in cropland. We found that habitat heterogeneity within the landscape supports bird<\/a> functional diversity and that each habitat type supported unique communities of species. Furthermore, the number of species unique to forest<\/a> habitats increased with increasing forest canopy closure. Our findings suggest that management strategies for maintaining trees<\/a> and shrubs, and enhancing tree cover within the crop production landscape, can be effective approaches for maintaining bird diversity and services. However, in-depth studies on trade-offs with disservices need further exploration to mitigate<\/a> negative impacts of birds on crop yields.<\/p>\ncropland-can-support-high-bird-diversity-in-heterogeneous-rural-tropical-landscapes(1)<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary Land-use change for crop production is one of the key drivers of habitat loss and fragmentation and consequently biodiversity loss and change in tropical regions. This may impact biodiversity- regulated ecosystem services; birds are important to crop health regulating services (eg. seed dispersal, pest control) and disservices (e.g. seed predation, grain herbivory). However, know- […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9744,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions\/9744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}