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"Rural landscapes are changing in southern Australia. Thanks to landholders,
community volunteers and Landcare groups, farms are increasingly home to
corridors of trees and shrubs along creeks, and paddocks bordered by trees.
Our research, published today, shows these efforts to revegetate farmland has
made an important difference for woodland birds.
We surveyed and compared bird communities in farm landscapes with differing
amounts of tree cover. We found when the amount of revegetation in open
farmland increased, the number of woodland bird species did, too. For example,
an increase in revegetation from 1% to 10% of the landscape doubled the number
of woodland bird species.
This is important, because populations of woodland birds have been steeply
declining in southern Australia, with species such as the southern whiteface,
brown treecreeper and white-browed babbler now of conservation concern. The
collective efforts of landholders can help reverse these declines by attracting
species back into otherwise-cleared farmland."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
