How do different agricultural management strategies affect bird communities inhabiting a savanna-forest mosaic? A qualitative reasoning approach

► A qualitative reasoning model to compare the impact of Traditional and Intensive farming on birds is presented. ► Intensive farming leads to decline of non-forest and forest specialist birds. ► Traditional farming destabilized non-forest, but had no significant impact on forest birds. ► Traditional farming is less impacting than Intensive farming. ► Qualitative reasoning allows building predictive models using low resolution data.