DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.03.047
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84929966267
论文题名: Influences of succession and erosion on bird communities in a South American highland wooded landscape
作者: Bellis L.M. ; Pidgeon A.M. ; Alcántara C. ; Dardanelli S. ; Radeloff V.C.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2015
卷: 349 起始页码: 85
结束页码: 93
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Birds
; Forests
; Livestock grazing
; Polylepis australis
; Remote sensing
; Shrublands
Scopus关键词: Agriculture
; Birds
; Conservation
; Erosion
; Plants (botany)
; Reforestation
; Remote sensing
; Soils
; Vegetation
; Digital elevation model
; Forests
; Livestock grazing
; Patch connectivities
; Polylepis australis
; Shrublands
; Structural characteristics
; Vegetation restoration
; Forestry
; avifauna
; bird
; digital elevation model
; growth rate
; human activity
; human settlement
; Landsat thematic mapper
; livestock farming
; microhabitat
; NDVI
; regeneration
; remote sensing
; restoration ecology
; secondary forest
; shrubland
; soil erosion
; soil quality
; species richness
; succession
; topography
; vegetation structure
; woodland
; Argentina
; Aves
; Polylepis
; Polylepis australis
英文摘要: In South American highland forests, domestic grazing can cause major changes in forest structure and soil quality thereby altering resources available to avian communities. However, the consequences of changes in variability in plant growth forms after disturbance are little known. Understanding forest succession effects on avifauna is critical though, given that area in secondary forests is expected to increase in the future. We sampled bird communities at 172 sample points in Polylepis shrublands and forests patches in Argentina. For each of these points, we calculated vegetation variables (NDVI, NDVI texture indices), landscape pattern variables (patch area and connectivity), and human disturbance variables (erosion, distances to settlements and roads), based on a Landsat 5 TM image, a local land cover map, and topography (slope and altitude) from a Digital Elevation Model. Bird communities in Polylepis forests included approximately twice as many species and double the abundance than those in shrublands. Species composition strongly differed between the two growth forms as well, birds that use the ground vegetation to nest and forage were less abundant in shrubland patches, air foragers were also less abundant in shrubland patches. Soil erosion, proximity to human settlements and forest isolation were the best predictors of bird richness and abundance in Polylepis vegetation patches. Abundance of birds that use the ground for nesting and foraging were negatively related to soil erosion. We concluded that Polylepis avifauna communities are primarily influenced by human impact on soils rather than by vegetation structural characteristics. Polylepis vegetation restoration and reduction of livestock grazing would likely reduce soil erosion rates, promote natural regeneration, increase patch connectivity and enhance microhabitat conditions for avifauna in high-altitude Polylepis forests and shrublands. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/65407
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作者单位: Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal (IDEA), CONICET-UNC and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina; SILVIS Lab, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States; Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Centro Universitario Costa Sur, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico; Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA), Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Paraná, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Recommended Citation:
Bellis L.M.,Pidgeon A.M.,Alcántara C.,et al. Influences of succession and erosion on bird communities in a South American highland wooded landscape[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2015-01-01,349