<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aviles, J. M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Medina, F. J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sánchez, J. M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parejo, D.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Does temporal variability of winter Common Cranes in the dehesas depend on farming practices?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Waterbirds</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agricultural intensification</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Common Crane</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grus grus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">holm oak dehesas</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">southwestern Spain</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">winter stability</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2002</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2002///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1675/1524-4695(2002)025[0078:DTVOWC]2.0.CO;2</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">25</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">86 - 92</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The inclusion of Spain and Portugal within the European Community has brought about a change in the traditional farming practices in the dehesas of Iberia to intensive cereal and to irrigated crops. Here we use seven-year counts of Common Cranes in 38 wintering sites to evaluate whether habitat structure modified by farm- ing practices in the Holm Oak (Quercus ilex) dehesas is an important determinant of variability in winter crane num- bers. We extracted, from a set of nine variables that express different levels of human management in the Holm Oak dehesas, two factors that accounted for the 66% of the variance. The first factor was related to livestock utiliza- tion of the dehesas, while the second one reflected Holm Oak presence. We ran a general linear model to analyze the influence of farming practices (PC1 and PC2), landscape heterogeneity and roost site stability on inter- and in- tra-season variability in numbers of winter cranes. Livestock presence, Holm Oak presence, landscape heterogeneity and roost type stability did not explain intra- and inter- season variability in crane numbers wintering in the Holm Oak dehesas of Spain.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Aviles, J M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Medina, F J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sánchez, J M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Parejo, D</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Does temporal variability of winter Common Cranes in the dehesas depend on farming practices?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Waterbirds</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agricultural intensification</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Common Crane</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Grus grus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">holm oak dehesas</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">southwestern Spain</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">winter stability</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2002</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">25</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">86-92</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The inclusion of Spain and Portugal within the European Community has brought about a change in the traditional farming practices in the dehesas of Iberia to intensive cereal and to irrigated crops. Here we use seven-year counts of Common Cranes in 38 wintering sites to evaluate whether habitat structure modified by farm- ing practices in the Holm Oak (Quercus ilex) dehesas is an important determinant of variability in winter crane num- bers. We extracted, from a set of nine variables that express different levels of human management in the Holm Oak dehesas, two factors that accounted for the 66% of the variance. The first factor was related to livestock utiliza- tion of the dehesas, while the second one reflected Holm Oak presence. We ran a general linear model to analyze the influence of farming practices (PC1 and PC2), landscape heterogeneity and roost site stability on inter- and in- tra-season variability in numbers of winter cranes. Livestock presence, Holm Oak presence, landscape heterogeneity and roost type stability did not explain intra- and inter- season variability in crane numbers wintering in the Holm Oak dehesas of Spain.</style></abstract></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Guzmán, J M S</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">García, A S</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Influence of farming activities in the Iberian Peninsula on the winter habitat use of common crane ( Grus grus) in areas of its traditional migratory routes</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Agriculture, ecosystems &amp;…</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Common Crane</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">g. grus</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">land use</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">modification</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">population increase</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">southwestern Spain</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">traditional area</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">wintering pattern</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1999</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">72</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">207-214</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Farming activities can in¯uence bird habitat and wintering patterns. Changes in the wintering habitat use of common crane (Grus grus) were related to changes in land use on this species' traditional migration route in the Western Palaearctics. The study was conducted in the Orellana area (Extremadura, SW Spain), the most important wintering area on this route, where the continued availability of natural food resources (acorns, bulbs, invertebrates) represents a more balanced diet than agricultural resources alone. The presence of crops such as corn (Zea mays L.) is, however, not a critical factor in the area, since the two types of resources, natural and agricultural, are available in the same period of time. The increase in area dedicated to irrigated crops, especially rice (Oriza sp.), affected the growth in the numbers of wintering cranes in the Orellana area. In the past the peak wintering period was in December and was positively correlated to acorn production, whereas the peak period is now in January±February, coinciding with the use of rice-®eld stubble as feeding places. Dehesas (Mediteranean scrub), cultivated or not, may replace rice-®eld stubble as feeding places. The existence of intensive farming activity in combination with traditional land-uses is suggested to be the cause of these changes. #</style></abstract></record></records></xml>