TY - JOUR
T1 - Nestedness of bird assemblages along an urbanisation gradient in central India
AU - Kale, Manoj
AU - Ferrante, Marco
AU - Dudhe, Nandkishor
AU - Kasambe, Raju
AU - Trukhanova, Irina S.
AU - Ivanova, Tatiana
AU - Bhattacharya, Prosun
AU - Lövei, Gabor L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Biotic homogenisation
KW - Bird species diversity
KW - Disturbance
KW - Forest-urban gradient
KW - Scalable diversity
KW - Urban birds
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U2 - 10.1093/jue/juy0017
DO - 10.1093/jue/juy0017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85078354628
SN - 2058-5543
VL - 4
JO - Journal of Urban Ecology
JF - Journal of Urban Ecology
IS - 1
ER -
