Trophic Links of the Blackbird (Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758) in Transformed Forest Ecosystems of North-Eastern Ukraine
By: Anzhela Chaplygina and Oleksandr Pakhomov
References
- Abramova, I.V. & Haiduk V.E. (2017). Ecology of thrush breeding (Turdus, Turdidae, Passeriformes) in South-Western Belarus. In Current issues of zoological science in Belarus: Proceedings of the 11th International Zoological conference dedicated to the 10-year anniversary of the foundation of the Scientific-Practical Bioresources Centre of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (pp. 8−17). Minsk: A.N. Varaksin Press.
- Aleksandrova, I.V. (1959). Materials on the song thrush diet in the breeding season Zoo-logicheskii Zhurnal, 38(1), 137−138.
- Amar, A., Hewson, C., Thewlis, R., Smith, K., Fuller, R., Lindsell, J., Conway, G., Butler, S. & MacDonald M. (2006). What’s happening to our woodland birds? Long-term changes in the populations of woodland birds. RSPB research report number 19, BTO research report number 169. Anon: Sandy and Thetford, RSPB/BTO, 238.
- Amrhein, V. (2013). Wild bird feeding (probably) affects avian urban ecology. In D. Gil & H. Brumm (Eds.), Avian urban ecology (pp. 29−38). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199661572.003.0003.
- Anderson, J.F. & Magnarelli L.A. (1993). Epizootiology of Lyme disease-causing borreliae. Clinics in Dermatology, 11(3), 339−351. DOI: 10.1016/0738-081X(93)90088-T.
- Assandri, G., Bogliani, G., Pedrini, P. & Brambilla M. (2017). Insectivorous birds as ‘non-traditional’ flagship species in vineyards: Applying a neglected conservation paradigm to agricultural systems. Ecological Indicators, 80, 275−285. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.05.012.
- Baranovsky, A.V. (2008). The fieldfare (Turdus pilaris), redwing (T. iliacus), song thrush (T. philomelos) and common blackbird (T. merula) In Birds of Ryazan Meshchera (pp. 144−153). Ryazan: Golos Hubernii.
- Barnard, C.J. (1980). Flock feeding and time budgets in the house sparrow (Passer domesticus L.). Anim. Behav., 28(1), 295−309. DOI: 10.1016/s0003-3472(80)80032-7.
- Batary, P., Fronczek, S., Normann, C., Scherber, C. & Tscharntke T. (2014). How do edge effect and tree species diversity change bird diversity and avian nest survival in Germany’s largest deciduous forest? For. Ecol. Manag., 319(7), 44–50. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.004.
- Berezantseva, M.S. (1997). The diet of the common blackbird nestlings Turdus merula and its comparison with the diet of the song thrush nestlings T. philomelos in the forest-steppe oak woodland “Forest on the Vorskla”. Russian Ornithological Journal, 20(6), 12−20.
- Blair, R.B. & Johnson E.M. (2008). Suburban habitats and their role for birds in the urban-rural habitat network: Points of local invasion and extinction. Landsc. Ecol., 23(10), 1157–1169. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9267-y.
- Blinkova, O. & Shupova T. (2017). Bird communities and vegetation composition in the urban forest ecosystem: correlations and comparisons of diversity indices. Ekológia (Bratislava), 36(4), 366–387. DOI: 10.1515/eko-2017-0029.
- Brygadyrenko, V.V. (2015). Community structure of litter invertebrates of forest belt ecosystems in the Ukrainian steppe zone. International Journal of Environmental Research, 9(4), 1183−1192. DOI: 10.22059/IJER.2015.1008.
- Bulakhov, V.L., Gubkin, A.A., Ponomarenko, O.L. & Pakhomov O.Y. (2008). Biological diversity of Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk region. Aves: Non-passeriformes (in Ukrainian). Dnipropetrovsk: Dnipropetrovsk University Press.
- Bulakhov, V.L., Gubkin, A.A., Ponomarenko, O.L. & Pakhomov O.Y. (2015). Biological diversity of Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk region. Aves: Passeriformes (in Ukrainian). Dnipropetrovsk: Dnipropetrovsk University Press.
- Caprio, E. & Rolando A. (2017). Management systems may affect the feeding ecology of great tits Parus major nesting in vineyards. Agric., Ecosyst. Environ., 243, 67−73. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2017.03.013.
- Chaplygina, A.B. (2000). On the issue of a biocoenotical role of birds in ecosystems (by the example of the genus Turdus). In Birds of the Seversky Donets basin. Proceedings of the 6th and 7th Conferences on “Study and Protection of Birds of the Seversky Donets River Basin” (pp. 51−57). Donetsk.
- Chaplygina, A.B. (2009). Patterns of nest location of thrushes of the genus Turdus in transformed landscapes of North-East Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Berkut, 18(1−2), 135−142.
- Chaplygina, A.B., Gramma, V.N., Bondarets, D.I. & Savynska N.O. (2015). Arthropods in a trophic-coenosis structure of the collared flycatcher consortium in conditions of forest ecosystems of North-Eastern Ukraine. Visnyk of Dnipropetrovsk University. Biology, Ecology, 23(1), 74−85. DOI: 10.15421/011511.
- Chaplygina, A.B. & Savinskaya, N.O. (2016). Current status of the avifauna of transformed landscapes of North-Eastern Ukraine by the example of Muscicapidae and Turdidae. Russian Ornithological Journal, 25(1252), 615−647.
- Chaplygina, A.B., Yuzyk, D. & Savyns’ka N.O. (2016a). The robin, Erithacus rubecula (Passeriformes, Turdidae) as a component of autotrophic consortia of forest coenoses, Northeast Ukraine. Vestn. Zool., 50(4), 369−378. DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0043.
- Chaplygina, A.B., Yuzyk, D.I. & Savyns’ka N.O. (2016b). The robin, Erithacus rubecula (Passeriformes, Turdidae), as a component of heterotrophic consortia of forest cenoses, Northeast Ukraine. Part 2. Vestn. Zool., 50(6), 493−502. DOI: 10.1515/vzoo-2016-0056.
- Chaplygina, A.B. (2018). Dendrophilic passerines (Passeriformes) as a structural-functional element of anthropogenically transformed forest biogeocoenoses of North-Eastern Ukraine. Dnipro: Oles Honchar Dnipro National University.
- Chaplygina, A.B., Pakhomov, O.Y. & Brygadyrenko V.V. (2019). Trophic links of the song thrush (Turdus philomelos) in transformed forest ecosystems of North-Eastern Ukraine. Biosystems Diversity, 27(1), 51–55. DOI: 10.15421/011908
- Domokos, E. & Domokos J. (2016). Bird communities of different woody vegetation types from the Niraj Valley, Romania. Turk. J. Zool., 40, 734–742. DOI:10.3906/zoo-1510-64.
- Faly, L.I. & Brygadyrenko V.V. (2014). Patterns in the horizontal structure of litter invertebrate communities in windbreak plantations in the steppe zone of the Ukraine. Journal of Plant Protection Research, 54(4), 414–420. DOI: 10.2478/jppr-2014-0062.
- Felton, A., Hedwall, P.O., Lindbladh, M., Nyberg, T., Felton, A.M., Holmström, E., Wallin, I., Lof, M. & Brunet J. (2016). The biodiversity contribution of wood plantations: Contrasting the bird communities of Sweden’s protected and production oak forests. For. Ecol. Manag., 365(1), 51–60. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.01.030.
- Gensiruk, S.A. (2002). Forests of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Lviv: Schevchenko Scientific Society.
- Gregory, R.D., Noble, D.G., Field, R.O, Marchant, J.H., Raven, M.J. & Gibbons D.W. (2003). Using birds as indicators of biodiversity. Ornis Hungarica, 12−13, 11−24.
- Hamer, K.C., Newton, R.J., Edwards, A.F., Benedick, S.I., Bottrell, S.H. & Edwards D.P. (2015). Impacts of selective logging on insectivorous birds in Borneo: The importance of trophic position, body size and foraging height. Biol. Conserv., 188, 82−88. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.09.026.
- Hernández, A. (2009). Summer-autumn feeding ecology of Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypolueca and Spotted Fly-catchers Muscicapa striata: The importance of frugivory in a stopover area in north-west Iberia. Bird Conserv. Int., 19, 224. DOI: 10.1017/s0959270909008351
- Karakava, M. & Arican K. (2015). The nest-site characteristics of the forest population of Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) in Eskişehir, Turkey. Turk. J. Zool., 39(2), 295−299. DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1401-36.
- Kirby, W., Black, K., Pratt, S. & Bradbury R. (2005). Territory and nest-site habitat associations of Spotted Flycatchers Muscicapa striata breeding in central England. Ibis, 147, 420−424. DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00425.
- Korňan, M. & Adamík P. (2017). Tree species preferences of foraging insectivorous birds in a primeval mountain mixed forest: Implications for management. Scand. J. For. Res., 32, 1−8. DOI: 10.1080/02827581.2017.1299211.
- Lommano, E., Dvořák, C., Vallotton, L., Jenni, L. & Gern L. (2014). Tick-borne pathogens in ticks collected from breeding and migratory birds in Switzerland. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 5(6), 871−882. DOI: 10.1016/j. ttbdis.2014.07.001.
- Malchevskij, А.S. & Kadochnikov A.S. (1953). A method of in vivo study of the nestling diet of insectivorous birds. Zoologicheskij Zhurnal, 32(2), 227−282.
- Markova, A.O. (2016). Aggressive behaviour of Robins Erithacus rubecula (Passeriformes, Muscicapidae) at watering places in the forest-steppe zone of Ukraine. Visnyk of Dnipropetrovsk University. Biology, Ecology, 24(2), 283−289. DOI: 10.15421/011636.
- Moreno-Rueda, G. & Pizzaro M. (2009). Relative influence of habitat heterogeneity, climate, human disturbance, and spatial structure on vertebrate species richness in Spain. Ecol. Res., 24(2), 335–344. DOI: 10.1007/s11284-008-0509-x.
- Nadtochiy, A.S. & Chaplygina A.B. (2010). Long-term changes in timing of bird arrival in Kharkov region (in Russian). Branta, 13, 50−61.
- Newton, I. (2007). The Palaearctic-Afrotropical migration system. In I. Newton (Ed.), The migration ecology of birds (pp. 699−727). Academic Press. DOI: 10.1016/B978-012517367-4.50024-3.
- Paker, Y., Yom-Tov, Y., Alon-Mozes, T. & Barnea A. (2014). The effect of plant richness and urban garden structure on bird species richness, diversity and community structure. Landsc. Urban Plann., 122, 186−195. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.10.005.
- Paralikidis, N., Papageorgiou, N., Tsiompanoudis, A. & Kontsiotis V. (2009). Song thrush Turdus philomelos winter diet in Mediterranean habitats: A case study in Greece. Avocetta Journal of Ornithology, 33, 109−111.
- Peris, S. & Montelongo T. (2014). Birds and small urban parks: a study in a high plateau city. Turk. J. Zool., 38, 316−325. DOI: 10.3906/zoo-1305-20.
- Russ, A., Rüger, A. & Klenke R. (2015). Seize the night: European Blackbirds (Turdus merula) extend their foraging activity under artificial illumination. Journal of Ornithology, 156(1), 23−31. DOI: 10.1007/s10336-014-1105-1.
- Shukshin, O.O. & Bokotey A.A. (2016). Synurbization and changes in quantity of the blackbird in Europe and Ukraine. Proceedings of the State Natural History Museum, 32, 91−102.
- Shupova, T.V. (2017). Transformation in the diversity of avifauna under the influence of recreational load (in Russian). Biosystems Diversity, 25(1), 45–51. DOI: 10.15421/011707.
- Suri, J., Anderson, P., Charles-Dominique, T., Hellard, E. & Cumming G. (2017). More than just a corridor: A suburban river catchment enhances bird functional diversity. Landsc. Urban Plann., 157, 331−342. DOI: 10.1016/j. landurbplan.2016.07.013.
Language: English
Page range: 333 - 342
Published on: Dec 24, 2020
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Related subjects:
© 2020 Anzhela Chaplygina, Oleksandr Pakhomov, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Landscape Ecology
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.