Nestedness of bird assemblages along an urbanisation gradient in central India

Manoj Kale; Marco Ferrante; Nandkishor Dudhe; Raju Kasambe; Irina S. Trukhanova; Tatiana Ivanova; Prosun Bhattacharya; Gabor L. Lövei

doi:10.1093/jue/juy0017

Nestedness of bird assemblages along an urbanisation gradient in central India

Manoj Kale, Marco Ferrante, Nandkishor Dudhe, Raju Kasambe, Irina S. Trukhanova, Tatiana Ivanova, Prosun Bhattacharya, Gabor L. Lövei

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We censused terrestrial bird assemblages along a five-stage urbanisation gradient (rural forest, industrial zone, peri-urban, suburban and urban habitats) in and around Amravati City, Central India, between January and April 2010-2013. A total of 89 species of birds were recorded, with the highest detected species richness in the rural areas (67 species) and the lowest in the urban one (29 species). The rural habitats had the highest diversity, followed, in a decreasing order, by industrial, periurban, suburban and urban areas, supporting Gray's increasing disturbance rather than Connell's intermediate disturbance hypothesis. The densities were, however, highest in the urban habitats, supporting the resource concentration hypothesis. The assemblages were significantly nested, indicating a common origin from the rural forest.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Urban Ecology
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jue/juy0017
State	Published - 1 Jan 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Biotic homogenisation
Bird species diversity
Disturbance
Forest-urban gradient
Scalable diversity
Urban birds

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Ecology
Urban Studies

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