8/9 The bird community appears adaptable, forest specialists are likely to benefit from abandonment, and natural processes that help maintain open areas (e.g. fire, herbivory) may offer the niche needed for farmland birds to survive in the landscape even under abandonment.

9/9 Open access paper available here: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0073619&type=printable Published in @PLOSONE by João Lopes Guilherme & @hmlfpereira in 2013