Waterbird use of farm dams in south-eastern Australia: abundance and influence of biophysical and landscape characteristics

Table 3 Mean density of birds (birds/ha) on different functional groups and species richness (species/pond) on dams in different landscape settings

	Shorebirds (Charadriiformes)	Long-legged wading birds	Swamphens and coot (Rallidae)	Pursuit predators	Diving	Dabbling	Filtering	Herbivorous	Total abundance (birds/ha)	Species richness (species/pond)
F probability	0.001	0.013	<0.001	0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.463	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Canola	2.3 × 10⁻⁵a	0.334ab	0.000a	0.147ab	0.130a	1.141b	0.001	1.796c	4.744b	0.495a
Wheat	0.001a	0.519b	0.000a	0.343b	1.499c	1.456b	0.012	0.604b	5.618b	0.567ab
Rain-fed pasture	0.096b	0.365b	0.522b	0.387b	0.640b	1.508b	0.018	0.813b	4.920b	1.130b
Remnant native vegetation	0.000a	0.079a	0.000a	0.047a	0.387ab	0.174a	0.041	0.026a	0.746a	0.567a

Values represent back-transformed means. Means with the same letter are not significantly different at a probability of <0.05 according to Fisher’s LSD test. Letters are not presented if the fixed effect was insignificant (p > 0.05)

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