Bird assembly in restinga reforested areas
Abstract
Fragmentation is one of environmental degradation and reduction of biodiversity causes, including in bird communities, mainly in Atlantic Forest areas. The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences in richness and functional groups structure in the ornitofauna from a Restinga forest fragment and four areas with different ages of reforestation. We selected five forest fragments in a Restinga area in the state of Paraiba. A native fragment (Control Area-AC) and four fragments that have undergone a mining process and present different ages of reforestation (1989, 1997, 2001 and 2003). The avifauna samples occurred in four expeditions between November 2006 and April 2008 and counted with a total effort of 2700 net.m2 per expedition. Statistical tests verified richness differences between studied areas, as well as the composition of their functional groups. In general, 90 bird species were recorded, and the highest reforestation age area presented the highest richness (n = 51 spp.). The species richness comparisons indicated that the difference in the richness between AC and reforested areas is not statistically significant. The similarity analysis indicates that reforested areas share a large amount of species and AC has a great differentiation in composition. This differentiation is explained by the significant presence of frugivorous, nectarivorous, leaf and understory-insectivorous species. Changes in species richness and composition in degraded areas are expected and reforested areas usually have a smaller number of forest-dependent species due to the deficiency of available resources. The recovery of areas by reforestation are important conservation strategies, however there is need for management measures that promote the enrichment of these areas and the availability of resources for species dependent on environments Forest.
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Cristescu, R. H., Frère, C. & Banks, P. B. (2012). A review of fauna in mine rehabilitation in Australia: current state and future directions. Biological Conservation, 149(1), 60-72. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.02.003
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Donner, D. M., Ribic, C. A. & PROBST, J. R. (2010). Patch dynamics and the timing of colonization–abandonment events by male Kirtland’s Warblers in an early succession habitat. Biological Conservation, 143(5), 1159-1167. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.02.023
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Rossi, J. P. (2011). rich: an R package to analyse species richness. Diversity, 3(1), 112-120. https://doi.org/10.3390/d3010112
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Stanturf, J. A., PALIK, B. J. & Dumroesem R. K. (2014). Contemporary forest restoration: a review emphasizing function. Forest Ecology and Management, 331, 292-323. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.07.029
Stratford, J. A. & Stouffer, P. C. (2013). Microhabitat associations of terrestrial insectivorous birds in Amazonian rainforest and second‐growth forests. Journal of Field Ornithology, 84(1), 1-12. doi: 10.1111/jofo.12000
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Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M. M. & Jetz, W. (2014). EltonTraits 1.0: Species‐level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology, 95, 2027-2027. doi:10.1890/13-1917.1
Published
2020-05-25
How to Cite
MARIANO, Erich de Freitas et al.
Bird assembly in restinga reforested areas.
Acta Brasiliensis, [S.l.], v. 4, n. 2, p. 91-98, may 2020.
ISSN 2526-4338.
Available at: <http://revistas.ufcg.edu.br/actabra/index.php/actabra/article/view/305>. Date accessed: 30 may 2025.
doi: https://doi.org/10.22571/2526-4338305.
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Ecology
