Population dynamics of neotropical migratory birds using agriculture-forest mosaics in Campeche, Mexico
Title and abstract are also in Spanish. OCLC 34281491
By: M.H. Wilson, M. Berlanga, D. Dawson, P. Wood, J. Sauer, and C.S. Robbins
Edited by: Marcia H. Wilson and Steven A. Sader
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Abstract
In many areas of the tropics, forests are being converted to agriculture and other uses at a rapid rate. Previous research has documented that forest-breeding migratory birds are distributed across a wide variety of habitat types during midwinter. However, to evaluate the relative importance of different habitat types to wintering birds, we need to examine habitat-specific estimates of survival. During the winter of 1992-1993, mist nets, observations of individually marked birds and point counts were used to sample bird populations in a pasture-forest mosaic in southern Mexico. Sampling was conducted four times throughout the winter on a total of six grids. Twenty nets were run for two days in each grid. A total of 129 species were captured and 3,585 individuals banded. Neotropical migrants made up 31% of the species captured and 47% of the individuals banded. The banding data were used to estimate species richness for permanent and winter residents in different habitats and at different time periods. Capture-recapture models were used to estimate overwintering survival for selected species.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Population dynamics of neotropical migratory birds using agriculture-forest mosaics in Campeche, Mexico |
| Series number | 727 |
| Year Published | 1995 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station. |
| Contributing office(s) | Patuxent Wildlife Research Center |
| Description | viii, 288 |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Other Government Series |
| Larger Work Title | Conservation of Neotropical Migratory Birds in Mexico: Symposium-Workshop. |
| First page | 257 (abs) |
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