Breeding bird assemblages associated with riparian, interior forest, and nonriparian edge habitats in a balsam fir ecosystem

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 1159-1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
D M Whitaker ◽  
W A Montevecchi
Keyword(s):  
Balsam Fir ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Interior Forest

Breeding bird assemblages of eastern Mediterranean shrublands: composition, organisation and patterns of diversity

2005 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikos Katsimanis ◽  
Michalis Dretakis ◽  
Triantaphyllos Akriotis ◽  
Moysis Mylonas
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Mediterranean Shrublands ◽  
Bird Assemblages

scholarly journals The phylogenetic and functional diversity of regional breeding bird assemblages is reduced and constricted through urbanization

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 928-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank A. La Sorte ◽  
Christopher A. Lepczyk ◽  
Myla F. J. Aronson ◽  
Mark A. Goddard ◽  
Marcus Hedblom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Bird Assemblages

scholarly journals Effects of growth stage and tree species composition on breeding bird assemblages of plantation forests

Bird Study ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 225-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark W. Wilson ◽  
Josephine Pithon ◽  
Tom Gittings ◽  
Tom C. Kelly ◽  
Paul S. Giller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Species Composition ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
Growth Stage ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Tree Species Composition ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Plantation Forests

Breeding Bird Assemblages in the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River Recreation Area, New Mexico

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale W. Stahlecker ◽  
Patricia L. Kennedy ◽  
Anne C. Cully ◽  
Charles B. Kuykendall
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Recreation Area ◽  
River Recreation

Relations between body size, abundance and taxonomy of birds wintering in Britain and Ireland

1994 ◽  
Vol 343 (1304) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Bird Abundance ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Colonizing Species ◽  
Species Abundances ◽  
Bird Fauna ◽  
Bird Taxonomy ◽  
Taxonomic Isolation

We examine the relation between body size, abundance, and taxonomy in the wintering bird assemblages in Britain and Ireland. The regression slope of abundance on body size across species in both assemblages is not significantly different from that predicted by an ‘energetic equivalence rule’, but the proportion of the variance in abundance explained by body size is very low. Previous work on breeding bird assemblages has found the novel relation that the correlation between size and abundance across species within a tribe is itself positively correlated with the degree of taxonomic isolation of the tribe from other tribes in the bird fauna. We show that the same relation holds within bird tribes in the two wintering assemblages. Furthermore, evidence for this relation is found by using two different measures of bird abundance, despite these two abundance measures showing very different correlations with body size across species. Although these patterns in the data are consistent, some are not formally statistically significant ( p = 0.089 or greater). Excluding coastal, stocked, feral and recently colonizing species increased the significance of time since origin of a tribe on species abundances. We conclude that the relation between size and abundance in bird tribes is somehow related to bird taxonomy. While acknowledging the unlikely nature of such an effect, we tentatively propose hypotheses for two mechanisms that could produce the observed patterns.

Development of a Grassland Integrity Index Based on Breeding Bird Assemblages

2006 ◽  
Vol 118 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 125-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan R. Coppedge ◽  
David M. Engle ◽  
Ronald E. Masters ◽  
Mark S. Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Integrity Index

Does pedestrian traffic affect the composition of ?bush bird? assemblages?

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Megan Price ◽  
Alan Lill
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Assemblage Composition ◽  
Bird Assemblages ◽  
Point Counts ◽  
Bird Watching ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Pedestrian Traffic

Outdoor recreational activities (e.g., bushwalking and bird-watching) can increase participants? environmental awareness, but can also cause environmental damage and impact negatively on wildlife if conducted irresponsibly and/or in large numbers. A field experiment with a before-after-control-impact design conducted in Wyperfeld National Park, Victoria determined whether simulated bushwalking by researchers over a 4-week period had an immediate impact on the composition of breeding bird assemblages on ten 1-ha mallee plots. Birds were surveyed with point counts preand post-intrusion. Species richness, diversity and composition of bird assemblages were unaffected by the pedestrian traffic regime imposed. Results suggest that normal pedestrian traffic in spring and summer may not influence ?bush bird? assemblage composition very markedly in the short-term in Victorian parks. However, the birds could have responded to intrusion, but less dramatically than by leaving the plots. That bushwalking and allied activities may have other adverse effects on the behaviour and physiology of Australian ?bush birds? still needs to be investigated.

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