Data for: The role of landscape in shaping bird community and implications for landscape management at Nanjing Lukou International Airport

Understanding the patterns of bird diversity and its driving force is necessary for bird strike prevention. In this study, we investigated the effects of landscape attributes on phylogenetic and functional diversity of bird communities at Nanjing Lukou International Airport (NLIA). Bird identifications and counting of individuals were carried out from November 2017 to October 2019. Based on the land cover data, the landscape was divided into four main types, including farmlands, woodlands, wetlands and urban areas. Bird phylogenetic and functional diversity were strongly affected by landscape matrix types. Bird species, phylogenetic and functional richness were highest in woodlands, while phylogenetic and functional structure were most complex in wetlands. We found that related carnivorous birds occupied most niches at the NLIA. Moreover, bird assemblages exhibited phylogenetic and functional clustering in all landscape matrix types, which meant environmental filtering governed communit..., Wavelet analysis, a spectral decomposition technique, was used to determine the key spatial scale that was important to quantify the relative influence of matrix types on species' distributions. We generated 1, 000 random points within 8 km radius extent from the NLIA and extracted their land-cover types. Then we ran the wavelet analysis with MATLAB 9.9 (MathWorks, Natick, Massachusetts; https://ww2.mathworks.cn/products/matlab.html). The result showed that a 288-m radius from the center of each point was appropriate. We then randomly selected 9 sampling points in farmlands, 7 in wetlands, 5 in woodlands and 4 in urban areas (25 points in total) to make sure that sampling effort on each matrix type was roughly proportional to its area. Sampling points were at least 576m apart. From November 2017 to October 2019, we carried out point-count bird surveys monthly. Each observation was in 20 minutes. We usually surveyed birds on sunny and windless days. We recorded all birds seen or heard an..., The data files included with our submission can be opened with R or RStudio for further analysis.