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Bird species richness in vegetation fences and in strips of residual rain forest vegetation at Los Tuxtlas, Mexico
Authors:Alejandro Estrada  Pierluigi Cammarano  Rosamond Coates-Estrada
Affiliation:(1) Estación de Biología "lsquo"Los Tuxtlas"rsquo", Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 176, San Andrés, Tuxtla, Veracruz, México;(2) Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
Abstract:Fragmentation of the lowland tropical rain forest has resulted in loss of animal and plant species and isolation of remaining populations that puts them at risk. At Los Tuxtlas, Mexico, lowland rain forests are particularly diverse in the avian fauna they contain and while most of the forests have been fragmented by human activity, many of the fragments still harbor diverse assemblages of bird species. In these landscapes, linear strips of residual rain forest vegetation along streams as well as linear strips of vegetation fences (live fences) crossing the pastures might provide some connectivity to bird populations existed in forest fragments. We investigated bird species richness and relative abundance in one 6-km long section of live fences (LF) bordering a dirt road and in two 6-km long sections of residual forest vegetation along a river (MR) and one permanent stream (BS). We used point count procedures which resulted in the count of 2984 birds representing 133 species. At the LF site we detected 74% of the species, 72% at the BS site and 57% at the MR site. Only 38% of the species were common among sites. Neotropical migratory birds accounted for 34–41% of the species counted at all sites. While edge and open habitat birds accounted for 6–10% of the species and for 50% of the records at the three vegetation strips, about 90% of the species were forest birds. Distance to forest fragments and degree of disturbance of the vegetation seemed to negatively influence bird species presence at the BS and MR strips. Rarefaction analysis indicated that the LF strip was richer in species than the other two sites, but the occurrence of the three vegetation strips in the landscape seem to favor the presence of many more species. We discuss the value of these vegetation strips to birds as stepping stones in the fragmented landscape.
Keywords:bird diversity  conservation  corridors  forest fragmentation  Los Tuxtlas  Mexico  tropical rain forests
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