caa a22 4500 605528128 CHVBK 20210128100811.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10531-015-0974-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10531-015-0974-9 Diverse vegetation in a spa town supports human social benefits of urban birds [Elektronische Daten] [Tomáš Kučera, Petra Kloubcová, Petr Veselý] The urban-rural gradient effect, together with the value of urban green patches, on saving bird diversity has received significant research in recent years. These topics are usually studied in the context of big cities, where the effects are more pronounced. In the present study, we observed how these phenomena affect the avicoenoses in smaller spa town, where landscape protection supports the benefits of biocultural diversity. We assessed the effect of the occurrence of microhabitats (especially particular tree and shrub forms) within the urban-rural gradient on bird fauna composition. We found that the urban-rural gradient in towns is not as relevant as in cities because the effect is covered with a more complicated multi-layered vegetation structure. For the management practices we confirm the high importance of vegetation continuity from the periphery to the city centre, bypassing the isolation of green patches. A proportion of deciduous and coniferous trees and their spatial heterogeneity are important for the occurrence of small songbirds. Next, we conducted a questionnaire-based study with the park visitors and found that there is a biocultural benefit from the presence of songbirds in large urban parks, especially in the spa town. The clear preference of songbirds by park visitors highlights the social benefit of bird diversity. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Urban vegetation nationallicence Green infrastructure nationallicence Biocultural diversity nationallicence Spa town nationallicence Human perception nationallicence Kučera Tomáš Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut Kloubcová Petra Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut Veselý Petr Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/13(2015-12-01), 3329-3346 0960-3115 24:13<3329 2015 24 10531 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-015-0974-9 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/s10531-015-0974-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kučera Tomáš Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kloubcová Petra Department of Ecosystem Biology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Veselý Petr Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biodiversity and Conservation Springer Netherlands 24/13(2015-12-01), 3329-3346 0960-3115 24:13<3329 2015 24 10531