diversity Article Diversity of Bird Communities in Tea (Camellia sinensis) Plantations in Fujian Province, South-Eastern China Titus S. Imboma 1, Marco Ferrante 2 , Min-sheng You 1,3, Shijun You 1,* and Gábor L. Lövei 1,3,4,* 1 State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control for Fujian and Taiwan Crops, Institute of Applied Ecology, Fujian Agricultural and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China;
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[email protected] (G.L.L.); Tel.: +45-4051-6461 (G.L.L.); +86-591-8384-4953 (S.Y.) Received: 10 September 2020; Accepted: 27 November 2020; Published: 30 November 2020 Abstract: Habitat conversion in mountain areas threatens their biodiversity. The effect on biodiversity of creating a mountain landscape with a network of forest fragments and a cultivated habitat matrix is poorly documented in China. Bird communities in forest fragments and tea plantations were censused by field observations in two years (2018–2019) in three tea-growing locations, Anxi, Beifeng, and Wuyishan in Fujian Province, south-eastern China. Out of a potential pool of 247 forest-associated bird species, we detected the presence of 82, mostly resident species, 32–47 of those regularly visiting tea plantations.