Assessing riparian areas of Greece—An overview

GN Zaimes, V Iakovoglou - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Riparian areas, especially in the Mediterranean, offer many ecosystem services for the
welfare of society benefits from their sustainable management. This study presents different …

Vegetation structure drives taxonomic diversity and functional traits of birds in urban private native forest fragments

LA Campos-Silva, AJ Piratelli - Urban Ecosystems, 2021 - Springer
Many studies in urban landscapes have revealed that vegetation structure influences the
taxonomic diversity and traits of birds and drives greater bird richness in greenspaces …

Active restoration fosters better recovery of tropical rainforest birds than natural regeneration in degraded forest fragments

P Hariharan, TRS Raman - Journal of Applied Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological restoration has emerged as a key strategy for conserving tropical forests and
habitat specialists, and monitoring faunal recovery using indicator taxa like birds can help …

[HTML][HTML] Improvement of vegetation structure enhances bird functional traits and habitat resilience in an area of ongoing restoration in the Atlantic Forest

MA Melo, MAG SILVA, AJ Piratelli - Anais da Academia Brasileira de …, 2020 - SciELO Brasil
Ecological restoration is a traditional option for recovering biodiversity and ecosystem
functions. Birds perform pollination, seed dispersal, and pest-control services, which …

Increase in size and shrub cover improves bird functional diversity in Neotropical urban green spaces

MA Melo, AJ Piratelli - Austral Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Latin American cityscapes are growing fast, posing risks to many bird communities and
ecosystem services (eg seed dispersal and arthropod population control), but few studies …

Influence of habitat type and distance from source area on bird taxonomic and functional diversity in a Neotropical megacity

MA Melo, PM Sanches, DF Silva Filho, AJ Piratelli - Urban Ecosystems, 2022 - Springer
The Neotropical region has been subjected to massive urbanization, which poses high risks
for some global biodiversity hotspots and losses of ecosystem functions and services. In this …

Bird functional and taxonomic diversity in xerophytic forests: contributing to balance bird conservation and livestock production

FR Barzan, LM Bellis, SB Canavelli… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is increasingly dependent on the ecological state of agricultural and livestock
systems. Here, we assess the relationship between bird functional and taxonomic diversity …

Taxonomic and functional diversity of bird communities in mining areas undergoing passive and active restoration in eastern Amazon

F de Carvalho Barros, SM Almeida, BS Godoy… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
The advance of land-use change processes in the Amazon rainforest has modified its
natural landscape, resulting in losses of biodiversity and ecological functions. Under this …