Effect of Habitat Burning on the Number of Singing Males of the Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola

摘要: Abstract. Wildfires can be the most influential phenomena in landscape dynamics and play an important role determining avian populations. However, intentional burning of habitats is still a controversial management practice legally prohibited many countries. On other hand, fires positively control, or even slow down vegetation succession reeds bushes, and, particular cases, may sustain habitat for open marsh nesting specialists. One such species Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola, globally threatened specialist that breeds fens Central Eastern Europe. Because bush reed encroachment threaten suitable breeding areas, necessary to maintain wetlands Warblers require nesting. To assess whether was beneficial, we analysed numbers distribution Chelm calcareous marshes eastern Poland on plots different successional stages after accidental fires...