Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVIII, Issue 2
Written by Ana-Maria STOENESCU, Sina Niculina COSMULESCU, Nicolae GHEORGHIU
This paper aimed to investigate the influence of interannual climate variation on the phenology of some wild fruit species and their relationship with avifauna. For this study, wild fruit species such as blackthorn, red and black hawthorn, dog rose, European crab apple, wild pear, elder, dewberry, and some bird species such as white and black stork, common cuckoo, Eurasian hoopoe, barn swallow, and European bee-eater were monitored. The observations were carried out in an ecosystem from the southern part of Oltenia, Romania, during the period 2019-2021. From the three years of study, 2021 stood out with an extension of the spring season, which influenced both plant phenology and the behaviour of bird species. It turns out that the presence of wild fruit species is essential in terms of the provided ecosystem services from an ecological and ecosystem balance point of view.
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