Flagship bird species habitat management supports the presence of ground-nesting aculeate hymenopterans
2012
Abstract
Burrowing birds, such as sand martins (Riparia riparia), are tightly bound to resource patches narrowly defined by soil penetrability, clay content, low incidence of parasites, and sufficient amount of aerial prey. Such habitat patches are limited both in number and quality, and their management is expected to affect not only the target flagship species, but also the non-target species represented by solitary ground-nesting aculeate hymenopterans utilizing the same habitat patches.Flagship bird species habitat management was found to support not only the the target burrowing bird, but also the non-target groundnesting aculeate hymenopteran species.