Small ponds support high terrestrial bird species richness in a Mediterranean semiarid region

Zamora Marín, Jose´ M.; Zamora López, Antonio; Calvo, Jose´ F.; Oliva Paterna, Francisco J.; Jiménez Franco, María Victoria

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Small ponds support high terrestrial bird species richness in a Mediterranean semiarid region

dc.contributor.author	Zamora Marín, Jose´ M.
dc.contributor.author	Zamora López, Antonio
dc.contributor.author	Calvo, Jose´ F.
dc.contributor.author	Oliva Paterna, Francisco J.
dc.contributor.author	Jiménez Franco, María Victoria
dc.contributor.department	Ecología e Hidrología
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-08T11:43:34Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-08T11:43:34Z
dc.date.issued	2021-03-08
dc.description	©2021. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Hydrobiologia. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04552-7	es
dc.description.abstract	Ponds are among the world’s most endan gered freshwater ecosystems. A comprehensive knowledge of pond biodiversity is urgently required to inform effective pond management and conserva tion actions. Most studies about pond biodiversity focus on aquatic taxa, while the terrestrial biodiver sity, especially of birds, has been little studied. Moreover, the few studies existing on pond biodiver sity do not account for different detection rates of species, thus yielding biased results. Here, we apply a hierarchical Bayesian modelling technique to data obtained from visual censuses to estimate bird species richness associated with small ponds in a semiarid region, considering the imperfect detection of species. The model incorporates specific responses to site characteristics (pond typology), landscape (environ mental heterogeneity) and at regional scale (mean annual precipitation). The studied ponds were used by two thirds of the terrestrial breeding bird community of the study region. Our modelling approach increased by an average of 7.5 species the observed site-specific richness. Drinking troughs supported a greater rich ness than other pond types. Environmental hetero geneity was positively related with species richness, whereas no clear relation was observed between richness and precipitation. In addition to ecosystem services provided by ponds to human welfare, our results suggest these small isolated habitats may act as key landscape elements for terrestrial birds in semiarid regions.	es
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dc.identifier.citation	Hydrobiologia (2021) 848:1623–1638
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04552-7
dc.identifier.issn	0018-8158
dc.identifier.issn	1573-5117
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/137045
dc.language	eng	es
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Waterbodies	es
dc.subject	Artificial pools	es
dc.subject	Drinking troughs	es
dc.subject	Cattle ponds	es
dc.subject	Environmental heterogeneity	es
dc.subject	Precipitation	es
dc.title	Small ponds support high terrestrial bird species richness in a Mediterranean semiarid region	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
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