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A long-term study indicates that tree clearance negatively affects fledgling recruitment to the Blue-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva) population

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PLOS ONE
卷 17, 期 6, 页码 -

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PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0267355

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  1. Centro de Reabilitacao de Animais Silvestres/Instituto de Meio Ambiente de Mato Grosso do Sul
  2. Foz Tropicana/Parque das Aves
  3. Fundacao Neotropica do Brasil
  4. Refugio Ecologico Caiman
  5. Conservacao Internacional do Brasil
  6. Sea World Busch Garden
  7. Instituto Arara Azul
  8. Parrots International
  9. McGrathFamily
  10. Fundacao Grupo Boticario de Protecao a Natureza and Fundacao de Ciencia e Tecnologia do Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul (Fundect/CNPq) [PRONEX 006/2015]
  11. Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES) [19982000]
  12. Fundect/CNPq [DCR 278/2014]
  13. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [308934/2017-2]

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This study aimed to understand the effects of time, forest and savanna availability, and rainfall on the number of nestlings and fledglings of Blue-fronted Amazons in the southern Pantanal. The results showed that arboreal habitat availability directly and positively affected the number of fledglings, while time and rainfall had indirect negative and positive effects on the number of fledglings, respectively. Additionally, a concerning decrease in fledglings was observed during the 22-year study, which could impact the conservation status of the species.
The Blue-fronted Amazon (Amazona aestiva) is a Neotropical parrot with a large distribution in South America, including areas in Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay. A substantial part of the population of this parrot is concentrated in the Pantanal, a large wetland located in the center of South America. There, the clearing of forest and savannas has occurred through the years to accommodate beef-cattle pasture, and crops. Our objective was to understand the direct and indirect effects of time, availability of forest and savannas, and rainfall over the number of nestlings and fledged young of Blue-fronted Amazons inhabiting the southern Pantanal. We surveyed their nests from 1997 to 2018 and counted the number of nestlings produced and the number of fledglings capable to leave the nest in each year. Additionally, we used available data on the area covered by arboreal vegetation, and rainfall data collected at a Meteorological Station located in a central area of the study, as predictors of the numbers of nestlings and fledglings produced every year. Then, we applied structural equation modeling to examine both the direct and indirect effects of time, arboreal habitat availability, and annual cumulative rainfall on the number of nestlings and fledgling per nest. Finally, we estimated the long-term trend of the number of fledglings per nest as a surrogate to the populational trend of Blue-fronted Amazon. We found that none of the variables in our model explained the number of nestlings in nests, but the number of nestlings and the arboreal habitat availability directly and positively affected the number of fledglings. Time indirectly and negatively affected the number of fledglings per nest, whereas rainfall affected it indirectly positively. Additionally, we detected a concerning decrease of about 30% of the fledglings during the 22-years study, which could lead to a change in the species conservational status.

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