caa a22 4500 605526982 CHVBK 20210128100806.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10531-015-0998-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10531-015-0998-1 Beyond prime areas of nature protection in East Africa: conservation ecology of a narrowly distributed Kenyan endemic bird species [Elektronische Daten] [Jan Habel, Mike Teucher, Sandra Pschonny, Simone Rost, Christina Fischer] Conflicts between human needs and nature conservation are exceptionally pronounced along rivers in tropical Kenya, where riparian ecosystems create important retreats for many endangered species, but also provide important ecosystem services for the local human population. This situation has led to a landscape mosaic consisting of dense thickets and agricultural plots. We assessed the occurrence of the Kenyan endemic riparian bird species Hindes´ Babbler Turdoides hindei along three rivers in south-east Kenya. We analysed the landscape coverage within habitat circles of 220m radius, which are occupied and unoccupied (the latter randomly selected along the rivers) by our targeted bird species. Based on these data we calculated habitat preferences and population structure of T. hindei. Our data reveal that its occurrence probability increased with coverage of thickets. Furthermore, geographic distances among local populations of T. hindei decreased with thicket coverage and vice versa. These data reveal the relevance of thicket coverage as a key factor for the occurrence of T. hindei, influencing its population structure. However, most of the thicket patches mapped along the three rivers are small and geographically isolated from each other. Further deforestation might lead to additional reduction of the population size and abundance of T. hindei, and may ultimately lead to local extinction of this, and other endangered species adapted on riparian thickets. This example underlines the need to extend nature conservation to areas being densely populated by humans—beyond prime areas of nature conservation in East Africa. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Effective habitat size nationallicence Riparian thicket nationallicence Habitat fragmentation nationallicence Invasive Lantana camara nationallicence Potential habitat size nationallicence Turdoides hindei nationallicence Habel Jan Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany aut Teucher Mike Department of Cartography, Trier University, 54286, Trier, Germany aut Pschonny Sandra Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany aut Rost Simone Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany aut Fischer Christina Restoration Ecology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany aut Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/12(2015-11-01), 3071-3082 0960-3115 24:12<3071 2015 24 10531 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0998-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0998-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Habel Jan Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Teucher Mike Department of Cartography, Trier University, 54286, Trier, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pschonny Sandra Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rost Simone Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fischer Christina Restoration Ecology, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354, Freising, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/12(2015-11-01), 3071-3082 0960-3115 24:12<3071 2015 24 10531