期刊
ECOLOGY LETTERS
卷 26, 期 2, 页码 335-346出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ele.14159
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Amazonia; bird census; bird communities; community stability; tropical long-term community similarity; undisturbed forest
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Contrary to other neotropical bird communities, the bird community in Manu National Park in southeastern Peru showed little change in structure and organization over time. This suggests that the park's large forest reserves, possibly influenced by regional topography and precipitation, still provide a refuge from the effects of global change on bird communities.
Documenting patterns of spatiotemporal change in hyper-diverse communities remains a challenge for tropical ecology yet is increasingly urgent as some long-term studies have shown major declines in bird communities in undisturbed sites. In 1982, Terborgh et al. quantified the structure and organisation of the bird community in a 97-ha. plot in southeastern Peru. We revisited the same plot in 2018 using the same methodologies as the original study to evaluate community- wide changes. Contrary to longitudinal studies of other neotropical bird communities (Tiputini, Manaus, and Panama), we found little change in community structure and organisation, with increases in 5, decreases in 2 and no change in 7 foraging guilds. This apparent stability suggests that large forest reserves such as the Manu National Park, possibly due to regional topographical influences on precipitation, still provide the conditions for establishing refugia from at least some of the effects of global change on bird communities.
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