Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 53A(1-2) 2010

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VOL 53A(1-2) 2010

DOI:

10.3409/azc.53a_1-2.41-49

Keywords:

Agriculture, landscape management, bird habitats

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Influence of agricultural landscape structure on breeding bird densities in lowland Polish farmland

• P. PRZYBYCIN

Abstract:

The influence of agricultural landscape structure (field fragmentation, share of particular crop types and hedges) on relative density of breeding bird species was surveyed in 2005-2007 on 46 transects (width 200 m, length 540-1570 m each) in four lowland, flat regions of Poland. Correlation analysis showed that the densities of 14 bird species were related to particular landscape variables. Several strictly field bird species preferred fragmented fields, cereal cropland and grasslands. Several bird species preferred hedges and abandoned fields with high (>0.5 m) herbaceous vegetation consisting of perennial plants.