Avian community response to a golf-course landscape unit gradient

Autor: Bruce R. D. Richardson, David H. Gordon, Stephen G. Jones, Gary M. Phillips
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Wildlife Society Bulletin. 33:422-434
ISSN: 1938-5463
0091-7648
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2005)33[422:acrtag]2.0.co;2
Popis: Although golf-course construction significantly alters natural wildlife habitat, the resulting remnant, disturbed, and introduced landscape patches may provide valuable habitat for birds. Considering the current rate of new course construction, the effects of land consumption and habitat alteration on breeding bird communities in coastal South Carolina are of immediate concern. During summer 2000 and 2001, we sampled 24 golf-course landscape units (GCLU) to assess their value to the breeding bird community. We defined a GCLU as the legally owned parcel of land where a golf course was sited, including the course and all associated development (e.g., residential housing). Sample units (n=24) were selected to represent a gradient of GCLUs ranging from low to high landscape alteration and were subjectively classified a priori into 1 of 3 alteration groups (G1 [low], G2 [medium] or G3 [high]). We conducted Analysis of Variance procedures to determine whether estimations of species richness, Neotropica...
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