http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2009/04/27/yellow-wagtail-populations-hit-by-poor-soil-quality/ Advancing ecology and making it count Tue, 14 May 2013 07:10:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/2009/04/27/yellow-wagtail-populations-hit-by-poor-soil-quality/#comment-633 Alex Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:42:43 +0000 http://britishecologicalsociety.org/blog/?p=476#comment-633 Interesting finding. The phenomenon may be more widespread that thought, even more than the authors thought, as this year there is another paper in Ecological Research (Heneberg P.: Soil penetrability as a key factor affecting the nesting of burrowing birds; Ecol. Res. 24(2): 453-459), where is described the tight relationship between presence of soils with certain penetrability and nesting of several burrowing birds. If about 18% of birds are known to be cavity nesters, and another >20% are dependent on proper farming practices, the phenomenon of soil penetrability might have huge impact on bird populations…

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