https://hdl.handle.net/2072/361797 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:22:47 GMT 2026-04-08T16:22:47Z https://hdl.handle.net/2072/482443 Indicators of the effects of the urban greening on birds: the case of Barcelona Herrando, Sergi; Quesada, Javier; Ferrer, Xavier Building and maintaining an urban green infrastructure, which can be understood as a network of urban parks, private gardens or forest areas, can potentially contribute to reverse the trend of biodiversity loss. In this context, developing indicators of the changes produced by green infrastructures on urban biodiversity represents a task of particular interest for planning and governance approaches. The results of long-term bird monitoring schemes in many cities, mainly based on volunteer programmes, may provide a good opportunity to obtain robust data on the spatial patterns and temporal trends of species populations. In addition, recent development of multispecies indicators can now be implemented to make use of common bird monitoring datasets with the aim to generate robust policy relevant evaluation tools. In this chapter we show a procedure to track the effects of urban greening on birds using common bird monitoring data from the city of Barcelona (north-east Iberian Peninsula). Essentially, the proposed approach requires to quantify the species’ response to the green infrastructure at a population level and to integrate all this information in combined indicators of the effect of urban greening. Using this approach we developed a first indicator to track temporal changes on bird populations linked to the greening and a second indicator to determine the areas of the city in which the level of development of the green infrastructure is already having a positive effect on biodiversity. Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2072/482443 2017-02-11T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2072/537561 Spotless starling: sturnus unicolor Quesada, Javier Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2072/537561 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2072/521319 Elaphe longissima (Laurenti, 1768): culebra de esculapio. Elaphe scalaris (Schinz, 1822): culebra de escalera Pascual, Xavier Sun, 01 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2072/521319 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2072/521316 Herpetofauna de les Illes Medes Pascual, Xavier Sun, 01 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2072/521316 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z