Vertical stratification and seasonal changes of the avian community in Mount Cameroon lowland rainforest

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F21%3A43902942" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/21:43902942 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/21:00542631 RIV/00216208:11310/21:10431374

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12877" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12877</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aje.12877" target="_blank" >10.1111/aje.12877</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Vertical stratification and seasonal changes of the avian community in Mount Cameroon lowland rainforest

Original language description

While birds are known to show preferences for distinct vertical strata in forests, detailed studies on the vertical distribution of whole communities are still scarce. Furthermore, of those conducted, most have used ground-based methods, including in both tropical and temperate forest. Here, we utilised ground-to-canopy mist nets to explore the vertical distribution of birds within lowland forest of Mount Cameroon National Park in both dry and wet seasons. In total, 908 birds from 83 species were caught. Species richness was highest in the understory and decreased towards the canopy as did bird abundance. We sampled more species during the dry season, with some species showing substantial seasonal changes in overall abundance. No seasonally driven stratal shifts in abundance were observed, while species richness increased in denser strata in the wet season. Although frugivoro-insectivorous birds represented the most species-rich foraging guild, their total abundance was unrelated to height above the ground, season and vegetation cover. This was also applied to gleaning insectivores, the second most species-rich foraging guild. Omnivores, insectivoro-nectarivores, sallying insectivores and frugivores typically showed a preference for higher vertical strata, while ground-foraging insectivores preferred low forest strata with dense vegetation. Seasonal variation was most profound in frugivores and sallying insectivores.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-10781S" target="_blank" >GA18-10781S: Organization of Afrotropical plant-bird pollination communities: the effects of altitude and seasonality</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

African Journal of Ecology

ISSN

0141-6707

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

59

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

655-666

UT code for WoS article

000645654300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105238855