Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil
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Resumo: | Understanding how birds use vegetation to obtain food resources has implications for habitat conservation and management. Restinga is a poorly known and threatened tropical habitat, associated to the Atlantic forest, that could benefit from this kind of information to know which plants can be used and dispersed by birds that can help on the maintenance of this habitat. Frugivorous and insectivorous birds are important components of tropical ecosystems, such as restinga. To provide more information regarding the ecology of restinga, we studied the feeding behavior and spatial use of this vegetation by birds at Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park, southeastern Brazil. We found that feeding behavior was similar to that recorded for the same species in other vegetation types. In addition, spatial use of the restinga vegetation by the most abundant species did not overlap greatly, except for two insectivorous species that used different foraging maneuvers and two frugivorous birds that foraged in flocks. The two most abundant species were generalists in their diet and were capable of feeding at the ground level on sand substrate. |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern BrazilAtlantic forestbehaviordietMimus gilvusZonotrichia capensisUnderstanding how birds use vegetation to obtain food resources has implications for habitat conservation and management. Restinga is a poorly known and threatened tropical habitat, associated to the Atlantic forest, that could benefit from this kind of information to know which plants can be used and dispersed by birds that can help on the maintenance of this habitat. Frugivorous and insectivorous birds are important components of tropical ecosystems, such as restinga. To provide more information regarding the ecology of restinga, we studied the feeding behavior and spatial use of this vegetation by birds at Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park, southeastern Brazil. We found that feeding behavior was similar to that recorded for the same species in other vegetation types. In addition, spatial use of the restinga vegetation by the most abundant species did not overlap greatly, except for two insectivorous species that used different foraging maneuvers and two frugivorous birds that foraged in flocks. The two most abundant species were generalists in their diet and were capable of feeding at the ground level on sand substrate.Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP2008-12-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032008000400001Biota Neotropica v.8 n.4 2008reponame:Biota Neotropicainstname:Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade (BIOTA-FAPESP)instacron:BIOTA - FAPESP10.1590/S1676-06032008000400001info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessGomes,Verônica Souza da MotaLoiselle,Bette A.Alves,Maria Alice S.eng2009-03-19T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1676-06032008000400001Revistahttps://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v20n1/pt/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||juliosa@unifap.br1676-06111676-0611opendoar:2009-03-19T00:00Biota Neotropica - Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade (BIOTA-FAPESP)false |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil Gomes,Verônica Souza da Mota Atlantic forest behavior diet Mimus gilvus Zonotrichia capensis |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil |
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Birds foraging for fruits and insects in shrubby restinga vegetation, southeastern Brazil |
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Gomes,Verônica Souza da Mota |
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Gomes,Verônica Souza da Mota Loiselle,Bette A. Alves,Maria Alice S. |
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Loiselle,Bette A. Alves,Maria Alice S. |
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Gomes,Verônica Souza da Mota Loiselle,Bette A. Alves,Maria Alice S. |
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Atlantic forest behavior diet Mimus gilvus Zonotrichia capensis |
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Atlantic forest behavior diet Mimus gilvus Zonotrichia capensis |
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Understanding how birds use vegetation to obtain food resources has implications for habitat conservation and management. Restinga is a poorly known and threatened tropical habitat, associated to the Atlantic forest, that could benefit from this kind of information to know which plants can be used and dispersed by birds that can help on the maintenance of this habitat. Frugivorous and insectivorous birds are important components of tropical ecosystems, such as restinga. To provide more information regarding the ecology of restinga, we studied the feeding behavior and spatial use of this vegetation by birds at Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park, southeastern Brazil. We found that feeding behavior was similar to that recorded for the same species in other vegetation types. In addition, spatial use of the restinga vegetation by the most abundant species did not overlap greatly, except for two insectivorous species that used different foraging maneuvers and two frugivorous birds that foraged in flocks. The two most abundant species were generalists in their diet and were capable of feeding at the ground level on sand substrate. |
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Instituto Virtual da Biodiversidade | BIOTA - FAPESP |
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