ORNITHOCOMPLEXES OF THE MEADOW ECOSYSTEMS OF WESTERN PART OF UKRAINE WHICH ARE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY

M. Senyk


Ivan Franko National University of L’viv,
Hrushevskoho st. 4, L’viv 79005, Ukraine,
e-mail: zoomus@franko.lviv.ua

Birds can be an indicators of transformation, particularly degradation processes. They are very sensitive to the following factors that are caused by the agricultural activity: the decrease of the size of the areas; the changes of the humidity of areas (in the side of draining); the decrease of the maximal and average height of the vegetation, height of cutting and grazing; the decrease of the density and productivity of the vegetation; vegetation changes; weeds covering. For the all of these factors the opposite correlation of majority statistical indices of ornithocomplexes were observed.


Keywords: ornithocomplex, meadow ecosystem, degradation process.


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