RT Journal Article
T1 Urban landscape organization is associated with species-specific traits in European birds
A1 Ibáñez Álamo, Juan Diego
A1 Izquierdo, Lucía
A1 Mourocq, Emeline
A1 Benedetti, Yanina
A1 Kaisanlahti Jokimäki, Marja Liisa
A1 Jokimäki, Jukka
A1 Morelli, Federico
A1 Rubio, Enrique
A1 Pérez Contreras, Tomás
A1 Sprau, Philipp
A1 Suhonen, Jukka
A1 Tryjanowski, Piotr
A1 Díaz, Mario
AB Urbanization is one of the main current drivers of the global biodiversity loss. Cities are usually developed in a gradient between land-sharing (low density housing with small and fragmented green areas) and land-sparing areas (high density housing with large and non-fragmented green patches) depending on the spatial organization of urban attributes. Previous studies have indicated differences in biodiversity between these two urban development types, but mechanisms underlying these differences are inadequately understood. In this context, the landscape features of each urban development type may select for organisms with specific traits. To analyze it, we quantified birds in 9 European cities during the breeding and wintering season, collected species-specific traits and performed Bayesian comparative analyses. We found that birds living in land-sparing areas had a higher reproductive investment and a higher nesting specialization than birds living in land-sharing areas during the breeding season. Typical birds from land-sparing urban areas during winter are fast-lived species. Our results indicate that urban development type could have an important role selecting animal traits and provides useful information on how to build more biodiversity-friendly cities.
PB Elsevier
SN 0048-9697
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120832
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/120832
LA eng
NO Ibáñez-Álamo, Juan Diego, et al. «Urban Landscape Organization Is Associated with Species-Specific Traits in European Birds». Science of The Total Environment, vol. 908, enero de 2024, p. 167937. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167937.
NO This study was part of the project PID2019-107423GA-I00 funded by the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 24 dic 2025