Title
Effects of an ENSO-related fire on birds of a lowland tropical forest in Sumatra
Author(s)
Adeney J.M., Ginsberg J.R., Russell G.J., Kinnaird M.F.
Published
2006
Publisher
Animal Conservation
Abstract
Comparisons of bird community composition in burned and unburned areas of a lowland tropical rainforest in Sumatra, Indonesia indicated the following during the first 5 years after burning: (1) original burn severity strongly affected bird community composition at both the genus and family levels; (2) bird community composition continued to change progressively away from immediate post-burn composition in medium and severely burned forest as well as adjacent unburned forest; and (3) the degree of impact was both taxon and guild specific, with understory insectivores most detrimentally affected. Although species richness may temporarily increase in burned areas, this study suggests that multiple wildfires will lead to a decline in diversity over a large scale as birds of open fields replace interior forest specialists. © 2006 The Zoological Society of London.
Keywords
bird; climate effect; community composition; El Nino-Southern Oscillation; guild structure; population decline; species conservation; taxonomy; tropical forest; wildfire; Asia; Eurasia; Greater Sunda Islands; Malay Archipelago; Southeast Asia; Sumatra; Sunda Isles; Aves
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