Farmland bird populations have strongly declined across Europe over the last decades due
to agriculture intensification, despite successive reforms of EU's Common Agricultural Policy …

The successful conservation of bird species relies upon our understanding of their habitat
use and requirements. In the coming decades the importance of such knowledge will only …

Farmland throughout the world is frequently likened to a mosaic or patchwork and this
heterogeneity is widely recognised as strongly influencing the abundance and diversity of …

We examined sexual differences in patterns of vegetation structure selection in the sexually
dimorphic little bustard. Differences in vegetation structure between male, female and non …

The effects of habitat fragmentation on species may change seasonally mainly due to
variations in resource availability and biotic interactions. In critical periods, such as winter …

The Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax (Linnaeus, 1758) is a medium-sized,'Near Threatened'steppe
bird, whose Iberian population has been alarmingly declining over recent decades …

Niche theory predicts that coexisting species will partition resources to limit the effects of
interspecific competition. We examined microhabitat partitioning in six sets of steppe birds …

Agriculture intensification threatens farmland bird populations because, among other
reasons, it reduces the availability of food resources required to rear their offspring. In our …

The influence of arthropod availability on the formation of male little bustard breeding
territories in central Spain was studied in two consecutive years. Arthropods (68,217 …

Interspecific competition is a dominant force in animal communities that induces niche shifts
in ecological and evolutionary time. If competition occurs, niche expansion can be expected …