Common birds have higher abundances in croplands with lower pesticide purchases

This dataset combines environmental data, pesticide purchase data, and bird abundance data to study the relationship between pesticide purchases and bird counts in croplands in France, while accounting for other variables related to agricultural intensification. The relationship between pesticide purchases and pesticide residues is also analyzed. Bird count data are obtained from the French Breeding Bird Survey (FBBS). Pesticide purchase data are supplied by the French national bank of pesticide sales (BNV-D), and data on pesticide residues come from the national monitoring of surface water quality in French rivers and water bodies (Naïades). Physicochemical properties of pesticide active substances were extracted from the database on Pesticide Properties Database (PPDB). Environmental data on agricultural parcels are from the “Registre Parcellaire Graphique” data (RPG), crop types from OSO-CES - THEIA data (OSO), Small Woody Features (SWF), crop practices and landscape features by muni..., , # Common birds have higher abundances in croplands with lower pesticide purchases

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zr7](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zr7)

## Description of the data and file structure

The unit of the statistical analyses is the point count within each bird monitoring plot. The postcode of the plots is provided to link the bird data with pesticide purchase data, which are reported at the postcode level. Environmental data are aggregated within a 1 km radius around the point counts.

All environmental data (\"**env_data.csv\"**), pesticide data (\"**pesticide_purchases_data.csv\"** and \"**pesticide_residues_data.csv\"**), and bird count data (\"**bird_data_FBBS_export.csv\"**) used in the analyses are provided in the dataset. All data are also publicly available elsewhere, except for the **PPDB**.

Scripts to prepare the selected data on pesticide purchases (“**0_dataBNVD.Rmd”**), pesticide residues (“**0_dataNaiades.Rmd”**), environmental data **(\"0_dataenv.Rmd**”), a...,