Rural–urban gradient and land use in a millenary metropolis: how urbanization affects avian functional groups and the role of old villas in bird assemblage patterning

Vignoli, L.; Scirè, S.; Bologna, M. A.

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Rural–urban gradient and land use in a millenary metropolis: how urbanization affects avian functional groups and the role of old villas in bird assemblage patterning

L. Vignoli, S. Scirè, and M. A. Bologna

L. Vignoli

Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre. Viale G. Marconi, 446, 00146 Rome, Italy

Center for Evolutionary Ecology, Largo San Leonardo Murialdo, 1, 00146 Rome, Italy

S. Scirè

Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre. Viale G. Marconi, 446, 00146 Rome, Italy

M. A. Bologna

Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Roma Tre. Viale G. Marconi, 446, 00146 Rome, Italy

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Habitat fragmentation caused by urbanization is considered a prominent threat to biodiversity. Urban development creates a mosaic of natural fragments which can be occupied by organisms able to survive in small spaces. These fragments are a set of habitat islands interspersed in a "sea" of built up areas. Hypotheses developed in the field of island biogeography can be used to preserve the insect communities inhabiting urban green spaces.

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