ARTICLE TITLE: Distribution of nocturnal birds (Strigiformes and Caprimulgidae) in relation to land use types, extent and configurationin agricultural landscapes of Central Italy
JOURNAL NAME: Rendiconti Lincei
Corresponding author:
Paola Bartolommei
COT (Tuscan Ornithological Society), cp 470, 57100 Livorno, Italy
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ESM_1 Mean movement and radius of land use buffer for each nocturnal bird species.
Species / Movement (m) / References / Distance to survey points (m)Otus scops / 380 / Cramp 1985; Galeotti and Gariboldi 1994; Marchesi and Sergio 2005 / 300 / 500 / 1000
Athene noctua / 300 / Cramp 1985; Martínez and Zuberogoitia 2004a; Zuberogoitia et al. 2007 / 300 / 500 / 1000
Tyto alba / 1300 / Cramp 1985; Taylor 1994;
Martínez and Zuberogoitia 2004b / 1000 / 1500 / 2000
Asio otus / 1290 / Cramp 1985; Holt 1997;
Henrioux 2000 / 1000 / 1500 / 2000
Strix aluco / 340 / Cramp 1985; Sunde and Bølstad 2004; Sunde and Redpath 2006 / 300 / 500 / 1000
Caprimulgus europaeus / 250 / Cramp 1985; Cleere and Nurney 1998; Sierro et al. 2001 / 300 / 500 / 1000
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