Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix

We carried out a standardized breeding bird atlas of “Nomentum” nature reserve (central Italy), located in a fragmented hilly forest near a large urbanized area (Rome). In order to obtain data about local composition, occurrence, distribution and richness, we correlated data with environmental hete...

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Autores principales:	Corrado Battisti, Veridiana Barucci, Valeria Concettini, Giuseppe Dodaro, Francesca Marini
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Publicado:	PAGEPress Publications 2021
Materias:	urbanization, synanthropic species, forest species, mosaic species, homogenization, habitat heterogeneity Zoology QL1-991
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5f8333a1d3914b4589eed49c85127b492021-11-19T15:28:00ZBreeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix10.4081/rio.2022.5310035-68752385-0833https://doaj.org/article/5f8333a1d3914b4589eed49c85127b492021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://sisn.pagepress.org/index.php/rio/article/view/531https://doaj.org/toc/0035-6875https://doaj.org/toc/2385-0833 We carried out a standardized breeding bird atlas of “Nomentum” nature reserve (central Italy), located in a fragmented hilly forest near a large urbanized area (Rome). In order to obtain data about local composition, occurrence, distribution and richness, we correlated data with environmental heterogeneity and vegetation structure variables. We recorded 58 species in 48 500x500 m-wide atlas units, with Parus major, Corvus cornix, Turdus merula, Sylvia atricapilla, Sylvia melanocephala, as the most occurring in frequency (> 80%). Although synanthropic species represent only slightly more than 20% in number and urban environments are relatively reduced in size, these species show a higher mean occurrence when compared to mosaic species, despite the fact that these last are higher in species number and mosaic habitats are widely diffused. Local urbanization may disrupt communities, facilitating opportunistic species linked to these environments (i.e. synantropic) and inducing a decline in mosaic species. Moreover, the homogenization induced by anthropization could, at least partially, explain the lack of correlation between habitat diversity and species richness, at local scale. Finally, tree density and diameter do not affect total bird richness at this spatial grain/scale. In this regard, further analyses could test for possible correlations between habitat variables and single ecological guilds. Corrado BattistiVeridiana BarucciValeria ConcettiniGiuseppe DodaroFrancesca MariniPAGEPress Publicationsarticleurbanization, synanthropic species, forest species, mosaic species, homogenization, habitat heterogeneityZoologyQL1-991ENITRivista Italiana di Ornitologia - Research in Ornithology (2021)
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topic	urbanization, synanthropic species, forest species, mosaic species, homogenization, habitat heterogeneity Zoology QL1-991
spellingShingle	urbanization, synanthropic species, forest species, mosaic species, homogenization, habitat heterogeneity Zoology QL1-991 Corrado Battisti Veridiana Barucci Valeria Concettini Giuseppe Dodaro Francesca Marini Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix
description	We carried out a standardized breeding bird atlas of “Nomentum” nature reserve (central Italy), located in a fragmented hilly forest near a large urbanized area (Rome). In order to obtain data about local composition, occurrence, distribution and richness, we correlated data with environmental heterogeneity and vegetation structure variables. We recorded 58 species in 48 500x500 m-wide atlas units, with Parus major, Corvus cornix, Turdus merula, Sylvia atricapilla, Sylvia melanocephala, as the most occurring in frequency (> 80%). Although synanthropic species represent only slightly more than 20% in number and urban environments are relatively reduced in size, these species show a higher mean occurrence when compared to mosaic species, despite the fact that these last are higher in species number and mosaic habitats are widely diffused. Local urbanization may disrupt communities, facilitating opportunistic species linked to these environments (i.e. synantropic) and inducing a decline in mosaic species. Moreover, the homogenization induced by anthropization could, at least partially, explain the lack of correlation between habitat diversity and species richness, at local scale. Finally, tree density and diameter do not affect total bird richness at this spatial grain/scale. In this regard, further analyses could test for possible correlations between habitat variables and single ecological guilds.
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author	Corrado Battisti Veridiana Barucci Valeria Concettini Giuseppe Dodaro Francesca Marini
author_facet	Corrado Battisti Veridiana Barucci Valeria Concettini Giuseppe Dodaro Francesca Marini
author_sort	Corrado Battisti
title	Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix
title_short	Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix
title_full	Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix
title_fullStr	Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix
title_full_unstemmed	Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix
title_sort	breeding birds of ‘nomentum’ nature reserve (central italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix
publisher	PAGEPress Publications
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/5f8333a1d3914b4589eed49c85127b49
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Breeding birds of ‘Nomentum’ nature reserve (central Italy): a forest remnant landscape surrounded by an agro-urbanized matrix

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