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For decades, the landscape heterogeneity was associated with increasing biodiversity, due to their close relationship to the niche occupancy. In this study, we explored the associations among the most common landscape metrics and several diversity and community metrics calculated in bird assemblages in the Czech Republic. We compared the strength and direction of these associations as well as their performance in three different environments.
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Our findings can be useful for ecological modeling, enabling the selection of the most appropriate landscape metrics to be used as predictors of each diversity metric.
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This article explore the associations between landscape heterogeneity and avian diversity, under the perspective of niche occupancy theories.
Professor Federico Morelli
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
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This page is a summary of: Landscape metrics as indicators of avian diversity and community measures, Ecological Indicators, July 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.03.011.
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