Bird responses at inherent and induced edges in the Murray Mallee, South Australia. 1. Differences in abundance and diversity (original) (raw)

We quantified differences in the abundance and diversity of bird species at inherent (naturally occurring) and induced (human-created) edges in the Murray Mallee, South Australia, to explore the effects of anthropogenic landscape modification. Bird species were classified into edge-response categories based on numerical differences in abundance between the edge and interior of habitat patches.'Open-country'species (eg Australian Magpie and Little Raven) increased in abundance near induced edges, but were rarely ...