The evolution, ecology, and conservation of hummingbirds and their interactions with flowering plants

KG Leimberger, B Dalsgaard, JA Tobias… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ecological co‐dependency between plants and hummingbirds is a classic example of a
mutualistic interaction: hummingbirds rely on floral nectar to fuel their rapid metabolisms …

Biological invasions: are they dependent on disturbance?

JD Lozon, HJ MacIsaac - Environmental Reviews, 1997 - cdnsciencepub.com
Les auteurs ont effectué une analyse de la littérature pour examiner l'établissement
d'espèces exotiques en relation avec les perturbations naturelles ou anthropiques des …

Evolutionary precursors of long-distance migration: resource availability and movement patterns in Neotropical landbirds

DJ Levey, FG Stiles - The American Naturalist, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
Seasonal movements are common in Neotropical forest birds. Species that engage in the
largest movements, altitudinal and intratropical migrants, are predominantly frugivores or …

Influence of selective logging on bird species diversity in a Guianan rain forest

JM THIOLLAY - Conservation biology, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
The composition and structure of the bird community were investigated in French Guiana
(northeastern Amazonia) 1 year and 10 years after selective logging and compared with bird …

Reproductive dominance of pasture trees in a fragmented tropical forest mosaic

PR Aldrich, JL Hamrick - Science, 1998 - science.org
Tropical forest fragmentation threatens biodiversity, yet basic information on population
responses for major groups such as plants is lacking. Hypervariable genetic markers were …

Tropical wet forest treefall gaps and distributions of understory birds and plants

DJ Levey - Ecology, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
I examined the patch dynamics of understory birds and fruiting plants in treefall gaps and
intact forest sites to determine the importance of gaps in structuring a Costa Rican tropical …

Soundscape analysis and acoustic monitoring document impacts of natural gas exploration on biodiversity in a tropical forest

JL Deichmann, A Hernández-Serna… - Ecological …, 2017 - Elsevier
Natural resource extraction is increasing rapidly in tropical forests, but we lag behind in
understanding the impacts of these disturbances on biodiversity. In high diversity tropical …

Disturbance, selective logging and bird diversity: a Neotropical forest study

JM Thiollay - Biodiversity & Conservation, 1997 - Springer
The composition and structure of bird communities, and the damage to forest structure were
surveyed in northern French Guiana (northeastern Amazonia) one year and ten years after …

Effects of forest fragmentation on understory hummingbirds in Amazonian Brazil

PC Stouffer, RO Bierregaard Jr - Conservation Biology, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
We sampled understory bummingbirds in Amazonian forest fragments from before isolation
through nine years after isolation. We recorded 377 captures of eight species in five 1‐ba …

Habitat heterogeneity, species diversity and null models

MJ Cramer, MR Willig - Oikos, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis states that an increase in habitat heterogeneity leads
to an increase in species diversity. We tested this hypothesis for a community of small …