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Título: Diversity, biomass, and trophic structure of a central Amazonian rainforest bird community
Título(s) alternativo(s): Diversidade, biomassa, e estrutura trófica de uma comunidade de aves de floresta tropical na Amazônia central
Autor: Johnson, Erik I.
Stouffer, Philip C.
Vargas, Claudeir Ferreira
Palavras-chave: Anthropogenic Effect
Avifauna
Biomass
Community Composition
Dominance
Forest Dynamics
Frugivory
Granivory
Insectivore
Ornithology
Patchiness
Population Density
Rainforest
Range Size
Species Diversity
Species Richness
Trophic Structure
Amazonia
Aves
Data do documento: 2011
Revista: Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia
É parte de: Volume 19, Número 1, Pags. 1-16
Abstract: Amazonian forest bird communities are among the richest in the world. Even so, relatively little is known about the organization of the entire avian community at local scales or about differences across Amazonia. These are fundamental data not only for understanding the processes generating and maintaining tropical diversity, but also as a baseline for evaluating anthropogenic changes to Amazonian forests. Here we provide a description of the entire bird community for a 100 ha plot of terra firme forest at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, near Manaus, Brazil, based on spot-map and mist net surveys augmented by additional field and analytical techniques. Although our results are from a single plot surveyed in a single year, our methods and interpretation reflect nearly 30 years of ornithological research at the site. We found 228 species on the plot, of which 207 were considered part of the core regional avifauna. Median density was five individuals/100 ha. Only 13 species (6% of the core species) had densities ≥ 20 individuals on the plot, although 55 species (27%) had ≤ 2 individuals. No species had territories smaller than 3 ha; median territory size was 11 ha for the 103 species for which we could make reasonable estimates. Measured by numbers of species or individuals, the plot was dominated by insectivores (54% of species, 62% of individuals). Biomass, however, was dominated by frugivores and granivores (59%). Compared to available data from other Amazonian forests, our site appears to have comparable richness of a similar set of species, but lower density and greater patchiness. Our results suggest that the area required to support populations of many species will be even greater in central Amazonia than in western Amazonia.
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