In Iberian cereal-steppes, decoupling of payments from current production levels through the Single Farm Payment raised concerns regarding the potential for land abandonment and replacement of sheep by cattle, with eventual negative consequences for declining grassland birds. This study addressed this issue by analysing the responses of five grassland bird species of conservation concern to spatial land use gra...
Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos Naturais - Instituto Superior de Agronomia ; The increased usage of mechanical understorey clearing in Mediterranean forests to reduce fire risk has consequences on biological communities that are poorly known. This issue was addressed using a chronosequence of 48 Quercus suber forest stands in southern Portugal, to estimate how vegetation and bird assemblages attributes change f...
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