Seasonality and Grazing Exclusions Shape Bird Community Dynamics in West African Drylands
Alexandra Kuttnig, Ambroise N. Zongo, Ian Quintas, Liv Fritsche, Reto Spaar, Bakary Diakité, Franziska Kaguembèga‐Müller, Alain Jacot, Sabine B. Rumpf, Gabriel Marcacci · 2026
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Alexandra Kuttnig and co-authors study, in a 2026 ecology paper, how seasons and grazing fences shape bird communities in the dry Sahel of Burkina Faso. Drylands face heavy climate and land pressure, and resting pastures is a common fix. The team used sound recorders at twenty-five fenced sites and fifty open sites across wet and dry seasons.
Seasonal shifts in plant growth changed bird mixes more than the fences did. Bird communities inside fences were more alike each other than those outside. Still, fenced plots served as dry-season refuges, likely because plants stayed taller and richer there. Plant measures from field checks and satellites best explained where bird types turned over.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alexandra Kuttnig, Ambroise N. Zongo, Ian Quintas, Liv Fritsche, Reto Spaar, Bakary Diakité, Franziska Kaguembèga‐Müller, Alain Jacot, Sabine B. Rumpf, Gabriel Marcacci |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 56 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |