Impacts of deforestation on passerine avifauna in the Opunohu Valley of Mo'orea, French Polynesia
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- Subject Areas
- Animal Behavior, Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Zoology
- Keywords
- Passerine, Avifauna, Mo'orea, French Polynesia, endemic, agriculture, forest, deforestation
- Copyright
- © 2016 ZoBell et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Impacts of deforestation on passerine avifauna in the Opunohu Valley of Mo'orea, French Polynesia. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2672v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2672v1
Abstract
Human expansion has negatively impacted biodiversity. Oceanic islands have some of the most diverse, endemic biodiversity. Endemism leads to vulnerability due to the isolated and discrete nature of oceanic islands. Birds are indicator species that adapt to change very quickly. By analyzing birds, we can investigate how changes in behavior and abundance may occur for different species in the future. Nine passerine bird species were studied with automated acoustic recording devices. Recording devices were places in agricultural, forest, and mixed habitats. Three invasive species preferred agriculture areas and low canopy cover, based on call frequency and detection probability. Native bird detectability was significantly lower than invasive bird detectability. Occupancy was above 0.8 for all species, except for the gray-green fruit dove that was >0.6. Native bird populations are at risk, based on their calling number and detection probability.
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This is a submission to PeerJ for review.
Supplemental Information
Detectibility
This is the raw data R script used to find detectibility.
Raw Data RScriptCallingNumber
This is the script used for identifying the calling number of the bird species.