Why have birds in the woodlands of Southern Australia declined

By H. Ford, G. Barrett, D. Saunders, H. Recher. 2001

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Avifaunal disarray due to a single despotic species (2013, background): “While many species have declined in distribution and abundance with habitat loss and fragmentation (Ford et al., 2001; Butchart et al., 2010), some native species have increased in abundance and distribution in human-modified landscapes (Lunney et al., 2007), and some of these are implicated in…”
Using historical ecology to understand patterns of biodiversity in fragmented agricultural landscapes (2005, background): “Elsewhere in the world, extensive land clearance is still occurring, resulting in catastrophic biodiversity losses (Ford et al., 2001; McAlpine et al., 2002).”
Collapse of an avifauna: climate change appears to exacerbate habitat loss and degradation (2009, background): “Human effects on the avifauna of the woodlands of southeastern Australia have been extensively reported (Recher, 1999; Ford et al., 2001; Mac Nally, 2007b).”
Bird's Response to Revegetation of Different Structure and Floristics—Are “Restoration Plantings” Restoring Bird Communities? (2011, background): “Birds have also undergone dramatic changes in populations in the agricultural areas of Australia, with some species now of conservation concern, and a small number of generalists having increased in abundance (Recher 1999; Ford et al. 2001).”
Conservation value of forest plantations for bird communities in western Kenya (2008, background): “Forest modification has been shown to lead to impoverished resources for understory insectivores (Zanette et al., 2000; Ford et al., 2001) but also fruit or nectar availability might differ among the studied forest types.”
The impacts and management of foxes Vulpes vulpes in Australia (2010, background): “Experimental evidence for the suppressive effects of fox predation on populations of other classes of native vertebrates is scant, although a considerable body of work has implicated foxes in declines of colonial seabirds (Norman 1971), ground-nesting megapodes (Priddel & Wheeler 1999), ground-forag”
The habitat requirements of the rufous treecreeper (Climacteris rufa). 1. Preferential habitat use demonstrated at multiple spatial scales (2002, background): “Habitat clearance and fragmentation in the agricultural regions of southern Australia has led to a decline in the abundance of many woodland birds ( Ford et al., 2001 ) and severe modification of remaining woodland habitat is likely to augment this process.”
Spatial and temporal analysis of the distribution of forest specialists in an urban-fragmented landscape (Madrid, Spain) Implications for local and regional bird conservation (2004, background): “Forest passerines are particularly sensitive to fragmentation conditions, probably due to their high habitat specificity (Canaday, 1996; Tellerı́a and Santos, 1997; Ford et al., 2001) and low vagility (Belisle et al.”
The causes of decline of birds of eucalypt woodlands: advances in our knowledge over the last 10 years (2011, background): “Ford et al. (2001) regarded the evidence that habitat fragmentation leads to higher nest predation in eucalypt woodlands as equivocal.”
Landscape matrix and species traits mediate responses of Neotropical resident birds to forest fragmentation in Jamaica (2010, background): “Traits such as nest type and nest height may affect a species susceptibility to nest predation, with open- and ground-nesting species found to be at greater risk (Ford et al. 2001, Chalfoun et al. 2002, Lampila et al. 2005, but see Martin 1993).”
Extinction debt or habitat change? - Ongoing losses of woodland birds in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia (2009, background): “The local and regional loss of bird species from eucalypt woodlands in south-western (Saunders 1989) and south-eastern Australia (Ford et al. 2001), and the loss of an average of nine bird species from eucalypt forest remnants in Victoria over 22 years (MacHunter et al.”