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DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-098-6-0014

HISTORIC URBAN PARKS AS BIODIVERSITY REFUGEES IN CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

Ivo Machar ORCID...1, Pavel Borusík ORCID...2, Vilém Pechanec ORCID...3
1 Department of Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 12, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
2 Department of Green Infrastructure Management, Faculty of Horticulturae, Mendel University in Brno, Valtická 337, 691 44 Lednice, Czech Republic
3 Department of Geoinformatics, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 12, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Large urban parks in European cultural landscapes are well-known as habitats with high local bird diversity. In this study, we have studied the bird community in historic urban park in Olomouc heritage city (Czech Republic) using bird territory mapping in 2005 and 2008 years. Results revealed the bird community in historic urban park was very rich in abundance and species diversity in investigated period. These results supported emerging idea that large historic parks can be considered as important refugees for bird diversity in cultural landscapes. Implications of results for sustainable management of urban green environment (especially in the frame of maintaining the very large old trees providing heterogeneity of nest habitats) are discussed.

Keywords: bird species richness, cultural landscape, historic urban park, urban green infrastructure

pages: 14-19, online: 2026



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