Output details

Distance to edges, edge contrast and landscape fragmentation: Interactions affecting farmland birds around forest plantations

Significance of output:

Competition for the use of land is growing globally and an intermix of land-use types is inevitable in most landscapes. The general question addressed in this paper is whether the biodiversity interests of one piece of land are impacted by adjacent land-uses. Specifically, the paper reports for the first time that forestry plantations within open farming areas negatively influence bird species beyond their borders. The effects-footprint of forestry is therefore greater than the land occupied and must be considered in both forestry and agricultural conservation planning.