UB participates in the publication of a manual to improve the preservation of steppe birds

ntensive agriculture and changes in cultivation are factors that caused the decline of a great part of steppe birds in the peninsula. Steppe birds –one of the most threatened bird group at a European scale- are sensitive species to the loss of dry habitats or surfaces like fallows, uncultivated lands between different agricultural crops.

 

Providing practical information on the management of fallows from an agricultural perspective in order to protect steppe birds is the main objective of the new Manual de Gestión de Barbechos para la Conservación de Aves Esteparias, which counts on the participation of the lecturer Santiago Mañosa, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute of the University of Barcelona (IRBio).

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