Birds on organic and conventional farms in Ontario: partitioning effects of habitat and practices on species composition and abundance

By K. Freemark, D. Kirk. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. L. Fahrig
2. Adam C. Smith
3. R. Arlettaz
4. T. Benton
5. Reto Spaar
6. A. Britschgi
7. K. Lindsay
8. Scott W. Mitchell

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Bengtsson
2. D. Bryant
3. R. Arlettaz
4. L. Fahrig
5. T. Benton
6. A. Britschgi
7. Reto Spaar
8. T. Tscharntke

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. L. Fahrig
2. Adam C. Smith
3. T. Benton
4. K. Lindsay
5. J. Bengtsson
6. D. Bryant
7. Ralf Seppelt
8. R. Arlettaz

Citations in the corpus

• INVITED PAPER: NORTH AMERICAN GRASSLAND BIRDS: AN UNFOLDING CONSERVATION CRISIS? (2005, background): “Moreover, Fulbright and Guthery (1996) evaluated the impact of mechanical habitat management on south Texas bird communities and concluded that grassland bird communities would benefit from mechanical operations if brush were removed in sufficient amounts in the right configuration.”
• Impact of grassland farming intensification on the breeding ecology of an indicator insectivorous passerine, the Whinchat Saxicola rubetra: Lessons for overall Alpine meadowland management (2006, background): “This phenomenon coincided with marked changes in the agricultural landscape, especially land use intensification (Benton et al., 2002, 2003), although the actual mechanisms involved are still widely debated (Schifferli et al., 1999; Di Giulio et al., 2001; Freemark and Kirk, 2001; Vickery et al., ”
• Evaluating cost-effectiveness of conservation management actions in an agricultural landscape on a regional scale (2007, background): “from natural habitat to agriculture or urban area (Matson et al., 1997; Main et al., 1999; Freemark and Kirk, 2001; Tilman et al., 2001) resulting in migration or even local extinction (Woinarski and Catterall, 2004).”
• The effects of the intensification of agriculture on northern temperate dung beetle communities (2003, unknown): “The results obtained by Freemark & Kirk (2001) revealed that species richness and total abundance of birds was significantly greater on organic than conventional farms.”
• Linking agricultural practice to insect and bird populations: a historical study over three decades (2002, background): “Freemark & Kirk (2001) found an association with local habitat heterogeneity and bird diversity, and suggest that a prime benefit of organic agriculture is the 686 T. G. Benton et al. © 2002 British Ecological Society, Journal of Applied Ecology, 39, 673–687 associated increase in heterogeneity…”
• The effects of organic agriculture on biodiversity and abundance: a meta‐analysis (2005, background): “Organic farming is reported to increase diversity in the agricultural landscape, including, for example, carabid beetles (Dritschilo & Wanner 1980; Kromp 1989; Pfinner & Niggli 1996), vascular plants (Hyvonen & Salonen 2002) and birds ( Freemark & Kirk 2001 ).”
• Optimizing landscape selection for estimating relative effects of landscape variables on ecological responses (2013, background): “…of 90 % agriculture avoided landscapes with very little or no natural cover, which would likely produce overriding effects on biodiversity (e.g., Freemark and Kirk 2001; Ökinger and Smith 2006; Kirk et al. 2011; Mortelliti et al. 2011) and potentially obscure our ability to detect effects of…”