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ATTI del Terzo Congresso Nazionale di Selvicoltura per il miglioramento e la conservazione dei
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doi: 10.4129/CNS2008.039
Citazione
- Citation
Autori - Authors G. Tellini Florenzano (*) - G. Londi (*) - L. Mini (*) - R. Tiberi (**) - T. Campedelli (*) (*) DREAM Italia, Poppi (AR) (**)
Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Agrarie, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Titolo: Frammentazione
delle foreste mediterranee e biodiversità: due casi di studio in italia
centrale Title:
MEDITERRANEAN
Parole
chiave: comunità ornitiche, effetto margine,
isolamento. Key
words: bird
community, edge effect, fragment isolation.
Riassunto
Summary The negative effects on biodiversity of the habitat fragmentation are well known. One of these effects consists in the increase of habitat edges, with the corresponding loss of interior species. The edge-effect acts together with a plethora of other processes linked with habitat fragmentation. The present knowledge about these processes has been obtained from contexts other than the Mediterranean region, where habitat fragmentation is a long-time process. Transferring merely this knowledge into this area should be at least verified. We have verified the effects of fragmentation and separately of edge on biodiversity, making use of the breeding-bird communities as indicators, in two quasi-experimental forest contexts. We have tested edge- and fragmentation-effect on bird species richness, and on the presence of the more common species, through GLM, accounting also for other important covariates. The results show that the edge has a strong positive effect on edge species, but has no effect on the presumed interior species. Fragmentation, though important in many instances, does not seem to affect those species known to be strongly affected by this process. In these two Mediterranean case-studies, therefore, the edge-effect does not seem to affect negatively the forest bird community, and also the fragment isolation does not act in a straight negative way. It should be important to develop the studies on other contexts and other taxa, to obtain reliable evaluation tools for the Mediterranean forest landscapes.
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