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In Europe, historic manor parks have been established as important parts of manor houses of aristocracy. Currently, most of manor parks and historical gardens are considered as very interesting historic monuments as well as important aesthetic features of cultural landscapes. Recently, historic manor parks come to the focus of ecologists and conservationists because of its biodiversity. Large historic parks and gardens, especially those with presence of old very large trees, providing habitats for many species of ...

Old manor parks are generally considered as important features of historic heritage in European cultural landscapes. But these parks are not only historic monuments. Because of presence of veteran trees and other biological legacy (such as dead wood), historic manor parks can be biodiversity hot-spots in urbanized landscapes. This study present results from long-term comparison of bird diversity in large old manor park in Central Europe (Czech Republic). Based on bird species richness comparison between 1997 and 2...