Extended Data Fig. 7: Crop diversity and agricultural plot size associated with community change. | Nature

Extended Data Fig. 7: Crop diversity and agricultural plot size associated with community change.

From: Intensive farming drives long-term shifts in avian community composition

Extended Data Fig. 7

a, b, Community similarity across 18 years (2000–2017) increases with crop diversity (a) and decreases with plot size (b). Points depict the total change in the community similarity for each agricultural transect (measured as Bray–Curtis Similarity). Higher values denote less change. Blue points are diversified-agricultural communities and yellow points are intensive-agricultural communities. Crop diversity and average plot size were log-transformed to highlight how increases in crop diversity can reduce community change. nspp. = 510, ntransects = 44, nyears = 18.

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