TY - JOUR
T1 - ¿Son las plantaciones abandonadas de eucalipto amigables con la avifauna? Un estudio de caso del bosque lluvioso valdiviano
AU - Fontúrbel, Francisco E.
AU - Candia, Alina B.
AU - Castaño-Villa, Gabriel J.
N1 - Funding Information:
C. B. de Fontúrbel assisted in the field. Comments of 2 anonymous improved an earlier version. We thank The Nature Conservancy and the Valdivian Coastal Reserve for granting access permissions and providing field facilities. Comments of 2 anonymous reviewers improved an early version of this manuscript. Funding was provided by the Rufford Small Grants Foundation (10621-1) and the Chilean Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT; AT-24121082). GJCV was supported by Vicerrectoría de Investigaciones y Posgrados- Universidad de Caldas. The final writing of this article was supported by FONDECYT project 3140528 (FEF).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Biología
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Forestry plantations, and particularly those based on Eucalyptus, are known to have negative effects on native avifauna. However, abandoned plantations might provide habitat for some native birds due to the presence of a native understory. Bird diversity between native forest stands and abandoned Eucalyptus plantations with native understory, at the South American temperate rainforest, was compared. Bird richness and composition did not differ between the native vegetation and the abandoned types. We identified 21 species of birds, being 19 of those (90%) shared between vegetation types. Most frequent species were Scelorchilus rubecula, Sephanoides sephaniodes and Elaenia albiceps, whereas Campephilus magellanicus and Zonotrichia capensis occurred only in the native vegetation. The plantation bird assemblage was a subset from the species pool of the native vegetation, with occurrence more variable than species identity between vegetation types. The presence of native understory vegetation at the plantation may explain the presence of some dispersal-restricted species such as rhynocryptids. Nevertheless, abandoned Eucalyptus plantations do not replace native forests as there are no species exclusive to this vegetation type and some species seem to be unable to use Eucalyptus trees.
AB - Forestry plantations, and particularly those based on Eucalyptus, are known to have negative effects on native avifauna. However, abandoned plantations might provide habitat for some native birds due to the presence of a native understory. Bird diversity between native forest stands and abandoned Eucalyptus plantations with native understory, at the South American temperate rainforest, was compared. Bird richness and composition did not differ between the native vegetation and the abandoned types. We identified 21 species of birds, being 19 of those (90%) shared between vegetation types. Most frequent species were Scelorchilus rubecula, Sephanoides sephaniodes and Elaenia albiceps, whereas Campephilus magellanicus and Zonotrichia capensis occurred only in the native vegetation. The plantation bird assemblage was a subset from the species pool of the native vegetation, with occurrence more variable than species identity between vegetation types. The presence of native understory vegetation at the plantation may explain the presence of some dispersal-restricted species such as rhynocryptids. Nevertheless, abandoned Eucalyptus plantations do not replace native forests as there are no species exclusive to this vegetation type and some species seem to be unable to use Eucalyptus trees.
KW - Campephilus magellanicus
KW - Eucalyptus globulus
KW - Habitat structure
KW - Habitat transformation
KW - Rhynocryptids
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rmb.2016.09.011
DO - 10.1016/j.rmb.2016.09.011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84998799562
VL - 87
SP - 1402
EP - 1406
JO - Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad
JF - Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad
SN - 1870-3453
IS - 4
ER -