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June 20, 2026LandOpen Access

Pathways Linking Habitat Management to Avian Functional Diversity in Intensively Managed Mediterranean Agricultural Landscapes

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MMMaria MakriASAthanassios Sfougaris

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Overview

Randomized trial investigates avian functional diversity in agricultural landscapes, highlighting ecological pathways.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how habitat management impacts avian functional diversity in Mediterranean agricultural landscapes.
  • Bird communities surveyed at 60 sampling stations across different habitat types including riparian zones and croplands.
  • Functional diversity assessed using generalized linear models and structural equation modeling (SEM).
  • Variation partitioning and redundancy analysis were employed to understand relationships among ecological variables.
  • Riparian habitats showed significantly higher species richness and functional richness than croplands (p<0.05).
  • Functional dispersion (FDis) demonstrated limited variability across habitat types, indicating high community organization.
  • Landscape variables primarily influenced functional diversity via indirect pathways linked to community-level attributes.

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Makri et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a3631fbdb0793dc1a538bc1https://doi.org/10.3390/land15061078
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