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Ciach, M.; Fröhlich, A. |
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Habitat type, food resources, noise and light pollution explain the species composition, abundance and stability of a winter bird assemblage in an urban environment |
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2017 |
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Urban Ecosystems |
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Urban Ecosyst |
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20 |
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3 |
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547-559 |
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Animals |
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At present, urban areas cover almost 3% of the Earth’s terrestrial area, and this proportion is constantly increasing. Although urbanization leads to a decline in biodiversity, at the same time it creates extensive habitats that are exploited by an assemblage of organisms, including birds. The species composition and density of birds nesting in towns and cities are determined by the types of buildings, the structure and maturity of urban greenery, and habitat diversity. In contrast, the habitat traits shaping the community of birds wintering in urban areas are not known. The aim of this work was to assess the influence of habitat structure, food resources and the urban effects (pollution, noise, artificial light) on an assemblage of birds overwintering in an urban area. It was carried out in 2014 and 2015 in the city of Kraków (southern Poland), on 56 randomly chosen sample plots, in which the composition, density and interseasonal similarity of bird assemblage were assessed with line transect method. A total of 64 bird species (mean = 17.7 ± 4.9 SD species/plot) was recorded. The mean density was 89.6 ind./km ±63.3 SD. The most numerous species were Great Tit Parus major, Magpie Pica pica, Blackbird Turdus merula, Blue Tit Cyanistes caeruleus, Rook Corvus frugilegus, Fieldfare Turdus pilaris and House Sparrow Passer domesticus. Noise adversely affected species numbers and density, but artificial light acted positively on the density of birds and their interseasonal stability. The species richness and density of birds were also determined by the number of food sources available (e.g. bird-feeders). In addition, the greater the proportion of open areas, the fewer species were recorded. In contrast, the more urban greenery there was, the greater the density of the entire bird assemblage. Urban infrastructure (buildings, roads, refuse tips) had a positive effect on the interseasonal stabilization of the species composition of wintering birds. The results of this work indicate that the urban effect, i.e. noise and light pollution, apart from purely habitat factors, provide a good explanation for the species richness, density and stability of bird assemblage wintering in urban areas. |
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Cinzano, P.; Falchi, F. |
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A portable wide-field instrument for mapping night sky brightness automatically |
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2003 |
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Memorie della Società Astronomica Italiana |
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Mem. S.A. It. |
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74 |
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2 |
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458-459 |
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Instrumentation; all-sky; photometry; sky brightness |
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We present a portable automatic instrument for monitoring night sky brightness and atmospherical transparency in astronomical photometrical bands. Main requirements were: fast and automatic coverage of the entire sky, lightness, transportability and quick set-up in order to take measurements from more sites in the same night, easily available commercial components and software to be reproduced by any interested institution, included amateurs astronomers groups. |
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Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Inquinamento Luminoso, Thiene, Italy |
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Ciocca, M.; Wang, J. |
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By the light of the silvery Moon: fact and fiction |
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2013 |
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Physics Education |
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Phys. Educ. |
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48 |
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3 |
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360-367 |
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Vision; moonlight; Purkinje effect; Purkinje shift; mesopic |
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Is moonlight 'silver' or 'cold'? In this paper we discuss the interesting combination of factors that contribute to the common descriptions of moonlight. Sunlight is reflected from the lunar surface and red-shifted. When traversing the atmosphere, moonlight is further depleted of short wavelength content by Rayleigh scattering. We measured the spectra of the moonlight to show these effects and compared them with sunlight. All measurements, including spectral reflectance, suggest that moonlight is redder than sunlight. The silvery Moon is just an illusion due to the properties and behaviour of our own eyes, including the responses of rods and cones and the physiological perceptive phenomenon called Purkinje shift. |
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Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, USA E-mail: marco.ciocca(at)eku.edu |
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Clanton, N. |
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Opinion: Light pollution … is it important? |
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2014 |
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Lighting Research & Technology |
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Lighting Research & Technology |
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Clark, N.A. |
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The Rate of Reproduction of Lemna Major as a Function of Intensity and Duration of Light |
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1924 |
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The Journal of Physical Chemistry |
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J. Phys. Chem. |
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935-941 |
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