How to count bird calls? Vocal activity indices may provide different insights into bird abundance and behaviour depending on species traits

A Hutschenreiter, E Andresen… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has become an important tool for surveying birds, and
there is a growing demand for approaches to obtain abundance and behavioural …

Network structure of avian mixed-species flocks decays with elevation and latitude across the Andes

FA Montaño-Centellas, J Muñoz… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Birds in mixed-species flocks benefit from greater foraging efficiency and reduced predation,
but also face costs related to competition and activity matching. Because this cost–benefit …

Mixed-species groups and aggregations: sha** ecological and behavioural patterns and processes

NV Carlson, TM Freeberg… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mixed-species groups of birds, fishes and mammals have traditionally been described in
taxa-specific journals. However, mixed-species systems are actually more widely found …

Neotropical mixed-species bird flocks in a community context

J Muñoz, JE Jankowski - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mixed-species flocks are an important component of bird communities, particularly in the
Neotropics, where flocks reach their highest diversity. The extent to which mixed-species …

Host life-history traits predict haemosporidian parasite prevalence in tanagers (Aves: Thraupidae)

VA de Souza Penha, FMCB Domingos, A Fecchio… - Parasitology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Vector-borne parasites are important ecological drivers influencing life-history evolution in
birds by increasing host mortality or susceptibility to new diseases. Therefore, understanding …

Relationship among vegetation structure and mixed-species flocks composition along the latitudinal gradient of the subtropical montane forest of the Yungas …

ME Fanjul, AL Echevarria… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The structural and physiognomic characteristics of forests and mountain forest are
fundamental aspects that influence the richness, abundance and composition in the bird …

Structure and home range size of mixed-species bird flocks in a bamboo forest in southwestern Amazonia

DP Guimarães, E Guilherme - Acta Ornithologica, 2021 - BioOne
Mixed-species flocks of birds are cohesive groups of two or more different species that are
kept in formation by systematic behavioral interactions among the members of the flocks …

Patterns in the global diversity of mixed‐species bird flocks in relation to environmental factors

J Wu, E Goodale, W Li, F Zou, Q Zhang - Biological Diversity, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Preserving biodiversity requires an understanding of how natural environments and
anthropogenic factors shape the global distribution of biological diversity. Moving beyond a …

[PDF][PDF] Avifauna Neotropical: ecología y conservación

JF Freile - Ornitología Neotropical, 2024 - journals.sfu.ca
La literatura ornitológica en español sobre la región Neotropical cuenta con importantes
obras (eg, Ortiz-Crespo 2011, Enríquez 2015), pero con escasos manuales generales sobre …

Impacts of tropical selective logging on local-scale movements of understory birds

CCP Cosset, JJ Gilroy, S Tomassi, S Benedick… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Widespread selective logging in tropical forest causes structural damage and associated
shifts in species composition, but we lack understanding of how selective logging impacts …