Restoring Mediterranean heathlands for declining birds: Initial responses to mosaic cutting and burning in the Natura 2000 LIFE Program

Bird counts and environmental covariates associated with sampling units in a heathland ecosystem subjected to annual treatments of cutting and burning. Also included are vegetation structural attributes measured in 5 m-radius plots located in treatment and control patches. Data were used to build models of relative abundance of open habitat bird species as a function of spatio-temporal treatment mosaics.
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Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.7h44j1085](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7h44j1085)

## Description of the data and file structure

BIRD_DATA

Open-habitat bird species were surveyed along transects within control and treatment areas. Three surveys were undertaken per transect per year from 2017/2018 to 2022 (excluding 2020 because of covid restrictions). The location of first detection of all singing individuals was recorded on high-resolution maps. 3-ha sampling units were overlaid on the transects in QGIS and these are the units that were used to calculate all variables in the dataset.

cells with 'n/a' values indicate no data were collected for that year. For sites with 'n/a' in 2017, this is because they were not established until 2018. For sites with 'n/a' in 2018, it is because they were surveyed first in 2017 and then not surveyed in 2...,