BIRD COMMUNITIES RESPOND TO THE SEASONAL FRUIT AND FLOWER AVAILABILITY IN A FRAGMENTED TROPICAL ANDEAN LANDSCAPE
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https://doi.org/10.58843/ornneo.v35i1.1281Keywords:
Bolivia, bracken, foraging guild, Pteridium, reproductive phenology, YungasAbstract
Fire is one of the main causes of fragmentation in tropical Andean forests. Fragmentation can influence plant reproductive phenology, which in turn affects bird communities. In the Bolivian Yungas, we investigated how the seasonal availability of fruits and flowers affects bird richness, abundance and bird community composition in forest edges and adjacent bracken (Pteridium ferns) dominated areas. We captured birds with mist nets at eight sites during the dry, transition and wet seasons, and recorded fruit and flower availability through phenological observations and plant collections. We examined variation in species richness and abundance using generalized linear mixed-effects models, and bird species composition in each season using multivariate analyses. Fruit availability was higher in the transition and wet seasons, and lowest in the dry season, while flower availability did not differ among seasons. Bird species richness and abundance were significantly higher in bracken areas, although there was significantly lower fruit availability than at the forest edge, and these were mainly generalist bird species that may be tolerant to disturbance. Total bird abundance increased with higher fruit availability in both habitats, and with flower availability at the forest edge. Bird species composition differed between forest edges and bracken areas in the transition and the wet seasons, being influenced by fruiting and flowering phenology in the dry and transition seasons, and elevation in all seasons. Our results show the varying seasonal influence of plant reproductive phenology on avian communities of disturbed habitats, although other large scale factors associated with fragmentation may also shape bird communities.
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