Habitat and territory segregation within Sylviine warblers of the Flemish coastal dunes

Sylviine warblers are abundant breeding birds in the Flemish coastal dunes. Although their habitat preferences are clearly different, habitat overlap can occur. Their habitat preferences can largely be explained by the overall territory-specific vegetation structure (all components included in the discriminant analysis). The transition from woodland to scrubs and from scrubland to short grasslands explains 92% of the total variance within the species’ habitat characteristics. Species of the different genera ( Sylvia, Phylloscopus, Acrocephalus, Locustella ) show a large amount of habitat overl... Mehr ...