Sugarcane and Eucalyptus plantation equally limit the movement of two forest‐dependent understory bird species

作者：Marina Furlan Giubbina, Alexandre Camargo Martensen, Milton Cézar Ribeiro · 发表于：Austral Ecology · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.1111/aec.12589 · 被引用次数：20 · 研究领域：Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation、Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies、Avian ecology and behavior

Abstract Habitat fragmentation results in landscape configuration, which affects the species that inhabit it. As a consequence, natural habitat is replaced by different anthropogenic plantation types (e.g. pasture, agriculture, forestry plantations and urban areas). Anthropogenic plantations are important for biodiversity maintenance because some species or functional groups can use it as a complementary habitat. However, depending on plantation permeability, it can act as a barrier to the movement of organisms between habitat patches, such as forest fragments, reducing functional connectivity for many species. Anthropogenic plantations are becoming the most common land use and cover type in the Anthropocene and biodiversity conservation in fragmented landscapes requires information on how different plantation types affect the capacity of the species to move through the landscape. In this study, we evaluated the influence of the type and structure of plantations on the movement of two forest‐dependent understory bird species – plain antvireo ( Dysithamnus mentalis ) and flavescent warbler ( Myiothlyps flaveola ) – within a highly fragmented landscape of Atlantic Forest hotspot. Knowing that forestry plantation is assumed to be more permeable to dependent forest bird species than open ones, we selected six study areas containing a forest fragment and surrounding plantation: three with sugarcane plantation and three with Eucalyptus sp. plantation. We used playback calls to stim...