Relationship between Survival Rate of Avian Artificial Nests and Forest Vegetation Structure Along a Tropical Altitudinal Gradient on Mount Cameroon

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12262/full" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12262/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/btp.12262" target="_blank" >10.1111/btp.12262</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Relationship between Survival Rate of Avian Artificial Nests and Forest Vegetation Structure Along a Tropical Altitudinal Gradient on Mount Cameroon

Original language description

Nest predation is assumed to be an important factor driving avian life histories. Altitudinal gradients offer valuable study systems to investigate how avian nest predation risk varies between bird populations. In this study, a hypothesis postulating anincrease in avian nest survival rate with elevation as a result of decreasing predation pressure was experimentally tested along an altitudinal gradient (300-2250 m) in West-Central Africa. Three types of artificial nests (cup-shrub, cup-ground and bare-ground) were used along the altitudinal gradient. Overall, elevation had no effect on the daily survival rate (DSR) of the artificial nests. However, there was a significant elevation-nest type interaction. Daily survival rate for cup-shrub nests decreased significantly with elevation, but for cup-ground and bareground nests, elevation had no significant effect. We tested the effects of the same vegetation parameters (tree density, herb and shrub layer coverage, and canopy openness) on t

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EH - Ecology - communities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Biotropica

ISSN

1744-7429

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

758-764

UT code for WoS article

000363809800013

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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