Planting Trees Isn’t Always Good for Birds, Study Finds

A study finds that shelterbelts in Japan’s wet farmlands boost edge-dwelling birds but reduce grassland species by about 74 percent, with populations recovering roughly one kilometer away, revealing a conservation trade-off. A team of researchers investigated how shelterbelts shape bird communities in an agricultural wetland landscape along the western coast of central Japan. Shelterbelts are […] Read More