Long‐term change in the avifauna of undisturbed Amazonian rainforest: ground‐foraging birds disappear and the baseline shifts

How are rainforest birds faring in the Anthropocene? We use bird captures spanning > 35 years from 55 sites within a vast area of intact Amazonian rainforest to reveal reduced abundance of terrestrial and near‐ground insectivores in the absence of deforestation, edge effects or other direct anthr...

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Published in:	Ecology letters 2021-02, Vol.24 (2), p.186-195
Main Authors:	Stouffer, Philip C, Jirinec, Vitek, Rutt, Cameron L., Bierregaard, Richard O., Hernández‐Palma, Angélica, Johnson, Erik I., Midway, Stephen R., Powell, Luke L., Wolfe, Jared D., Lovejoy, Thomas E., Lawler, Joshua
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Abundance Amazonia Animals Anthropocene Anthropocene epoch Anthropogenic factors Avifauna Biodiversity biodiversity erosion Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project bird communities bird declines Birds Climate change community change Conservation of Natural Resources defaunation Deforestation Edge effect Forests Human influences Humans Insectivores Landscape landscapes rain forests Rainforest Rainforests second growth shifting baseline Trees
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