The impact of urbanization on avian communities during the breeding season in the Huanghuai Plain of China

This dataset was collected during the 2022–2023 breeding seasons in the Huanghuaihai Plain, China, to assess the impact of urbanization on bird communities. It includes species occurrence and abundance records across multiple line transects, as well as calculated diversity indices including species richness, Shannon-Wiener index, Simpson index, and Pielou’s evenness. Environmental variables were recorded for each transect, including building index (BI), environmental noise (EN), human disturbance index (DI), and distance to county center (DCC), which were combined to form an urbanization synthetic index (USI). The dataset also incorporates five species-level ecological and life-history traits: body mass (g), diet category, clutch size, nest site, and provincial distribution. Analyses of these data indicate significant differences in species diversity and functional traits among urban, suburban, and rural habitats. USI was negatively correlated with species richness and Shannon-Wiener di..., , , # The impact of urbanization on avian communities during the breeding season in the Huanghuai Plain of China

Date of data collection: from June to August in 2022 and 2023
Location: 150 line transects across the Huanghuai Plain, with 50 line transects allocated to each habitat (urban, suburban, rural).

All the data files were created on December 30, 2024.

original_data.csv: all data employed in this experiment, including Shannon-Wiener diversity index, Simpson diversity, species richness, Pielou evenness index, building index (four scales), environmental noise, disturbance index, the distance to county center, urbanization synthetic index, and site.

R_Code.Rmd: R codes for \"The impact of urbanization on avian communities during the breeding season in the Huanghuai Plain of China\", there are codes for the data analysis in this dataset. The same analysis is presented only once to serve as an example for reference.

See below for definitions of variables.

Description of methods for dat...,