Influence of Changes in Agricultural Landscapes on the Distribution and Number of the Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo Linnaeus, 1758) (Gruidae, Aves) in Its Breeding Area Since the Middle of the 20th Century
https://doi.org/10.35885/1684-7318-2019-2-222-236
Abstract
The status of the populations and breeding groups of the Demoiselle Crane Anthropoides virgo (Linnaeus, 1758) depends on changes in the agricultural landscapes stronger than for other cranes, as economic development has affected almost the entire breeding part of its range in the steppes and semi-deserts of Eurasia. The large-scale and intense expansion of agricultural landscapes in the USSR in the 1950-1960s, accompanied by a strengthening complex of limiting factors, caused a sharp decrease in the number of the Demoiselle Crane and its redistribution within its breeding area. In the 1970-1980s the species, took advantage of the agricultural landscape expansion due to the mass transition to breeding on cultivated fields. After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the reaction of the Demoiselle Crane to the withdrawal of a huge area of agricultural fields and pastures from economic usage in different areas of its distribution proved to be ambiguous. The decrease in the numbers in the south, west and east of the habitat was compensated by its increase or stable status in the central and northern parts of the breeding areas. As a result, the world population has changed insignificantly, from 200,000-240,000 to 170,000-220,000 individuals.
About the Author
Elena I. Ilyashenko
A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
33 Leninsky Prosp., Moscow 119071
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Ilyashenko E.I. Influence of Changes in Agricultural Landscapes on the Distribution and Number of the Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo Linnaeus, 1758) (Gruidae, Aves) in Its Breeding Area Since the Middle of the 20th Century. Povolzhskiy Journal of Ecology. 2019;(2):222-236. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.35885/1684-7318-2019-2-222-236
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