Avifaunal Collapse in West African Forest Fragments

By Paul Beier, Maryann Van Drielen, B. O. Kankam. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Bird community responses to habitat fragmentation: how consistent are they across landscapes? (2005, result): “This finding goes against other studies that have shown that body mass is correlated with minimum patch size (e.g. Leck, 1979; Beier et al., 2002) and is inconsistent with the hypothesis that if home range size scales to body mass, area-sensitive birds will be absent from patches smaller than a few…”
Assemblage‐level responses of phyllostomid bats to tropical forest fragmentation: land‐bridge islands as a model system (2008, background): “In particular, changes in plant community composition and structure associated with forest edges (Harper et al., 2005) may strongly affect the abundance patterns and composition of animal assemblages, as has been demonstrated for tropical birds (Beier et al., 2002; Watson et al., 2004).”
Relative effects of fragment size and connectivity on bird community in the Atlantic Rain Forest: Implications for conservation (2008, background): “This group is considered as one of the most sensitive bird group to habitat fragmentation worldwide (Kattan et al., 1994; Borges and Stouffer, 1999; Beier et al., 2002; Sekercioglu et al., 2002; Watson et al., 2004) and in the Atlantic Rain Forest region (Willis, 1979; Aleixo and Vielliard, 1995;…”
AVIAN EXTINCTIONS FROM TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FORESTS (2004, background): “Assuming that home range scales positively with body mass, Beier et al. (2002) determined that threshold patch size in Ghana for a 24 g and 920 g species was 10 ha and 8000 ha, respectively.”
How well do we understand landscape effects on pollinators and pollination services (2012, background): “Many studies demonstrated that reductions in the size and number of natural remnants in the landscape can have deleterious effects on many species (e.g., Beier et al. 2002; Kremen et al. 2004; 2007, Cortes-Delgado & Perz-Torres 2011; Cruz-Neto et al. 2011).”
Habitat structure and proximity to forest edge affect the abundance and distribution of forest-dependent birds in tropical coastal forests of southeastern Madagascar (2004, background): “For instance, habitat structure and composition may be different on the edge (Lopez de Casenave et al., 1998; Beier et al., 2002), and micro-climatic changes near the patch edge can make the patch unsuitable for some bird species (Laurance et al.”
Effects of tropical forest fragmentation on aerial insectivorous bats in a land-bridge island system. (2010, background): “occurrence in response to forest edges (Beier et al., 2002; Laurance et al., 2002; Lambert et al., 2003).”
FROM FOREST TO FARMLAND: HABITAT EFFECTS ON AFROTROPICAL FOREST BIRD DIVERSITY (2005, background): “…Upper Guinean region, these results are not surprising, since its small-sized, and sometimes heavily disturbed, forest remnants might not support viable populations of many species, and therefore might not stabilize bird populations in the agricultural areas (e.g., Waltert 2000, Beier et al. 2002).”
Global patterns and predictors of bird species responses to forest fragmentation: Implications for ecosystem function and conservation (2014, background): “…be explained by factors such as species-area relationships (Lees and Peres, 2006; Banks-Leite et al., 2012), edge effects (Murcia, 1995), isolation (Beier et al., 2002), habitat complexity (Norton et al., 2000), and characteristics of the habitat matrix (Gascon et al., 1999; Martensen et al.,…”
Rethinking patch size and isolation effects: the habitat amount hypothesis (2013, background): “…also been suggested that species should be absent from patches that are too small to hold a single territory, on the assumption that a territory must be contained within a single habitat patch (‘minimum patch size requirement’: Hinsley et al., 1996; Lindenmayer et al., 1999; Beier et al., 2002).”