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The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park.

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Martínez, AE; Ponciano, JM; Gomez, JP; Valqui, T; Novoa, J; Antezana, M; Biscarra, G; Camerlenghi, E; Carnes, BH; Huayanca Munarriz, R ...
Published in: Ecology letters
February 2023

Documenting patterns of spatiotemporal change in hyper-diverse communities remains a challenge for tropical ecology yet is increasingly urgent as some long-term studies have shown major declines in bird communities in undisturbed sites. In 1982, Terborgh et al. quantified the structure and organisation of the bird community in a 97-ha. plot in southeastern Peru. We revisited the same plot in 2018 using the same methodologies as the original study to evaluate community-wide changes. Contrary to longitudinal studies of other neotropical bird communities (Tiputini, Manaus, and Panama), we found little change in community structure and organisation, with increases in 5, decreases in 2 and no change in 7 foraging guilds. This apparent stability suggests that large forest reserves such as the Manu National Park, possibly due to regional topographical influences on precipitation, still provide the conditions for establishing refugia from at least some of the effects of global change on bird communities.

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Ecology letters

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EISSN

1461-0248

ISSN

1461-023X

Publication Date

February 2023

Volume

26

Issue

2

Start / End Page

335 / 346

Related Subject Headings

  • Parks, Recreational
  • Forests
  • Ecology
  • Ecology
  • Birds
  • Biodiversity
  • Animals
  • 4104 Environmental management
  • 4102 Ecological applications
  • 3103 Ecology
 

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Martínez, A. E., Ponciano, J. M., Gomez, J. P., Valqui, T., Novoa, J., Antezana, M., … Terborgh, J. (2023). The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park. Ecology Letters, 26(2), 335–346. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14159
Martínez, Ari E., José M. Ponciano, Juan P. Gomez, Thomas Valqui, Jorge Novoa, Mariamercedes Antezana, Gabriela Biscarra, et al. “The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park.Ecology Letters 26, no. 2 (February 2023): 335–46. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14159.
Martínez AE, Ponciano JM, Gomez JP, Valqui T, Novoa J, Antezana M, et al. The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park. Ecology letters. 2023 Feb;26(2):335–46.
Martínez, Ari E., et al. “The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park.Ecology Letters, vol. 26, no. 2, Feb. 2023, pp. 335–46. Epmc, doi:10.1111/ele.14159.
Martínez AE, Ponciano JM, Gomez JP, Valqui T, Novoa J, Antezana M, Biscarra G, Camerlenghi E, Carnes BH, Huayanca Munarriz R, Parra E, Plummer IM, Fitzpatrick JW, Robinson SK, Socolar JB, Terborgh J. The structure and organisation of an Amazonian bird community remains little changed after nearly four decades in Manu National Park. Ecology letters. 2023 Feb;26(2):335–346.
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Published In

Ecology letters

DOI

EISSN

1461-0248

ISSN

1461-023X

Publication Date

February 2023

Volume

26

Issue

2

Start / End Page

335 / 346

Related Subject Headings

  • Parks, Recreational
  • Forests
  • Ecology
  • Ecology
  • Birds
  • Biodiversity
  • Animals
  • 4104 Environmental management
  • 4102 Ecological applications
  • 3103 Ecology