The selection of stubble fields by wintering granivorous birds reflects vegetation cover and food abundance

By D. Moorcroft, Mark J. Whittingham, R. Bradbury, Jeremy D. Wilson. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Impact of habitat management on grey partridge populations: assessing wildlife cover using a multisite BACI experiment (2004, background): “© 2004 British Ecological Society, Journal of Applied Ecology, 41, 846–857 by farm machinery, by the presence of wintering stubbles, and by increased abundance of invertebrates and weed seeds or grain (Flickinger & Pendleton 1994; Moorcroft et al. 2002; Rodgers 2002).”
Weed seed predation increases with vegetation cover in perennial forage crops (2010, unknown): “, 2008), while ranivorous birds and antsmay prefer open patches (Hulme, 1997; oorcroft et al., 2002; Butler et al., 2005).”
The effects of habitat structure on predation risk of birds in agricultural landscapes (2004, background): “AWoodpigeons prefer stubble fields with more grass (Moorcroft et al. 2002).”
Influence of agricultural management, sward structure and food resources on grassland field use, by birds in lowland England (2005, background): “…studies on granivorous species have highlighted the importance of food accessibility as well as abundance in determining intake rates of birds and habitat selection (Moorcroft et al. 2002; Whittingham & Markland 2002), and the same is probably true for invertebrate feeders (Perkins et al. 2000).”
Has Danish agriculture maintained farmland bird populations (2004, background): “The specific disappearance of suitable overwintering stubble field habitat as a consequence of the switch to autumn sowing (such as sparse barley stubble; Mason & Macdonald 2000; Moorcroft et al. 2002) has been implicated as a major factor in its decline.”
Ecosystem Services Provided by Birds (2008, background): “To date, most investigations approach the interaction from a different perspective: What habitat characteristics attract granivorous bird species to agro-ecosystems (e.g., Robinson & Sutherland 1999; Wilson et al. 1999; Moorcroft et al. 2002; Gibbons et al. 2006)?”
Annual losses of weed seeds due to predation in organic cereal fields (2003, result): “Total weed seed production was comparable to that usually found in cereals (e.g. Jones & Naylor 1992; Moorcroft et al. 2002).”
Altering perceived predation risk and food availability: management prescriptions to benefit farmland birds on stubble fields (2006, methodology): “This method of abundance analysis represents a biologically realistic approach as birds are unlikely to select foraging habitats independently of conspecifics in a flock but frequency of occurrence is often related to total number of individuals recorded, which is likely to indicate the relative val”
French citizens monitoring ordinary birds provide tools for conservation and ecological sciences (2012, background): “Expected results are the winter displacement towards garden feeders of granivorous species which breeding numbers are declining (Siriwardena et al., 2007) because of agriculture intensification leading to a lower availability of wild seeds in farmed fields (Moorcroft et al., 2002).”
The impact of growing miscanthus for biomass on farmland bird populations (2009, background): “The local distribution of many of the weeds was probably related to site specific factors such as soil type and previous cropping regimes [34].”
The effect of limited visibility on vigilance behaviour and speed of predator detection: implications for the conservation of granivorous passerines (2004, unknown): “densities found on stubble fields (Moorcroft et al. 2002).”