Long-term monitoring reveals widespread and severe declines of understory birds in a protected Neotropical forest

HS Pollock, JD Toms, CE Tarwater… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Long-term studies on the population dynamics of tropical resident birds are few, and it
remains poorly understood how their populations have fared in recent decades. Here, we …

Patterns and causes of understory bird declines in human-disturbed tropical forest landscapes: A case study from Central America

DM Visco, NL Michel, WA Boyle, BJ Sigel… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Tropical forest understory birds are declining globally for unknown reasons, indicating an
urgent need to understand the causes. We review and synthesize studies investigating …

[HTML][HTML] Sharp declines in observation and capture rates of Amazon birds in absence of human disturbance

JG Blake, BA Loiselle - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
Across the globe, unprecedented declines have been reported across a range of taxa.
Among the most well documented are declines in bird populations, with most declines …

Long‐term change in the avifauna of undisturbed Amazonian rainforest: ground‐foraging birds disappear and the baseline shifts

PC Stouffer, V Jirinec, CL Rutt… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
How are rainforest birds faring in the Anthropocene? We use bird captures spanning> 35
years from 55 sites within a vast area of intact Amazonian rainforest to reveal reduced …

Mechanisms of avian population decline and species loss in tropical forest fragments

WD Robinson, TW Sherry - Journal of Ornithology, 2012 - Springer
Even large fragments of tropical forest lose bird species over time. The speed of
disappearance and permanence of these losses depend on a variety of factors, but the …

Population densities of understorey birds across a habitat gradient in Palawan, Philippines: implications for conservation

NAD Mallari, NJ Collar, DC Lee, PJK McGowan… - Oryx, 2011 - cambridge.org
There is widespread concern for many understorey and ground-dwelling bird species in the
Philippines that appear intolerant of forest alteration. We present density estimates for 18 …

Species composition of Neotropical understory bird communities: local versus regional perspectives based on capture data

JG Blake, BA Loiselle - Biotropica, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Species richness and composition of bird assemblages found in the understory of
undisturbed Neotropical forests vary at local and regional scales but the extent of that …

Enigmatic declines in bird numbers in lowland forest of eastern Ecuador may be a consequence of climate change

JG Blake, BA Loiselle - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Bird populations have declined in many parts of the world but most of those declines can be
attributed to effects of human activities (eg, habitat fragmentation); declines in areas …

Rapid deforestation threatens mid‐elevational endemic birds but climate change is most important at higher elevations

JBC Harris, D Dwi Putra, SD Gregory… - Diversity and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Deforestation and climate change are two of the most serious threats to tropical birds.
Here, we combine fine‐scale climatic and dynamic land cover models to forecast species …

Erosion of tropical bird diversity over a century is influenced by abundance, diet and subtle climatic tolerances

JR Curtis, WD Robinson, G Rompré, RP Moore… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Human alteration of landscapes leads to attrition of biodiversity. Recommendations for
maximizing retention of species richness typically focus on protection and preservation of …