Big Bird Plots: Benchmarking Neotropical Bird Communities to Address Questions in Ecology and Conservation in an Era of Rapid Change

Big Bird Plots: Benchmarking Neotropical Bird Communities to Address Questions in Ecology and Conservation in an Era of Rapid Change

Extensive networks of large plots have the potential to transform knowledge of avian community dynamics through time and across geographical space. In the Neotropics, the global hotspot of avian diversity, only six 100-ha plots, all located in lowland forests of Amazonia, the Guianan shield and Pana...

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Main Authors: W. Douglas Robinson, Dan Errichetti, Henry S. Pollock, Ari Martinez, Philip C Stouffer, Fang-Yu Shen, John G. Blake
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
Neotropical forests
bird community structure
biogeography
foraging guild
species richness
bird survey methods
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.697511/full

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