Ground-nesting birds in agriculture landscapes: what is the negative effect of forest patches and how can parents cope with it?

This blog post is provided by Guillaume Dillenseger, and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Predator-guild-specific parental responses mitigate higher predation risk on ground nests close to forest patches in a mosaic landscape“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. This study tested whether predation risk of experimental lapwing nests and aggressive responses by breeding lapwings to stuffed nest predators may depend on distance …