Behaviour, population ecology, and metapopulation structure of selected bird species in Mata Atlantica forest fragments, Brazil
Description of the project:The project is part of the cooperative research network „BIOCAPSP I - Biodiversity conservation in fragmented landscapes at the Atlantic Plateau of São Paulo, Brazil “ within the Mata Atlantica-Programme of BMBF.
The Subproject D3 will provide insight into the behavioural and population-ecological mechanisms that determine species-specific susceptibility to habitat fragmentation. Spacing behaviour, movements, and patch occupancy of three forest bird species, Chiroxiphia caudata, Sclerurus scansor, and Pyriglena leucoptera, covering a wide range of body sizes, life-history traits, feeding strategies, and fragmentation susceptibilities, are studied using radio-telemetry and play-back inventories. Data will be analysed in relation to forest fragmentation and landscape patterns using GIS and metapopulation modelling. The study will be conducted in close cooperation with the Brazilian partners (play-back inventories, metapopulation modelling). The results of this and the other subprojects within FragMat will verify which landscape patterns are best suited to maintain the biological diversity of the Mata Atlantica, and thereby to provide an ecological basis for regional landscape management, in order to promote the persistence of the highest number of species in the landscape.
Additional information: http://www.mata-atlantica.ufz.de/
contact person: Dr. Miriam Hansbauer
Email: miriam.hansbauer@wildlife.uni-freiburg.de
Runtime:Start of project: 2003
End of project: 2006
Project Management:
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Storch I, Hansbauer MM
Actual Research Report
Financing:
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF
project-related publications:
- Hansbauer MM, Vegvari ZS, Storch I, Borntraeger R, Hettich U, Pimentel RG, Metzger JP: Microhabitat selection of three forest understory birds in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Biotropica, 2010; 42 (3): 355-362.
- Hansbauer, Miriam M. [Author, Reprint Author; E-mail: Miriam.Hansbauer@wildlife.uni-freiburg.de], Storch, Ilse [Author], Pimentel, Rafael G. [Author], Metzger, Jean Paul [Author]: Comparative range use by three Atlantic Forest understorey bird species in relation to forest fragmentation J Trop Ecol, 2008; 24 (3): 291-299.
- Hansbauer MM, Pimentel R: A comparison of five techniques for attaching radio-transmitters to tropical passerine birds Revista Brasileira de Ornitologia, 2008; 16: 131-136.