Effects of spatial and temporal crop changes on bird diversity in peri‑urban agricultural lands
Myung‐Bok Lee, Daojian Chen, Fangyuan Liu, Fasheng Zou
Basic and Applied Ecology
Urban Farm DB summary
This study investigated how spatial and temporal crop changes relate to bird diversity and traits in small peri-urban agricultural lands in Guangzhou, a sub-tropical city in China. Bird and crop data were collected approximately bimonthly from December 2021 to October 2022. Both overall crop diversity (alpha diversity) and seasonal crop changes (beta diversity) were positively associated with bird Shannon-Wiener diversity. Woody vegetation cover positively affected all three bird diversity indices, while plant/seed-eating bird abundance was negatively associated with alpha crop diversity, and ground-foraging bird abundance was positively associated with beta crop diversity.