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TY - JOUR
T1 - Threatened birds of the Angolan Central Escarpment
T2 - distribution and response to habitat change at Kumbira Forest
AU - Cáceres, Aimy
AU - Melo, Martim
AU - Barlow, Jos
AU - Cardoso, Paulo
AU - Maiato, Francisco
AU - Mills, Michael S. L.
PY - 2015/10
Y1 - 2015/10
N2 - Kumbira Forest is the best representative area of Angola's Central Escarpment and the only site known to hold significant populations of four of the five threatened endemic bird species of this habitat. However, the forest is disappearing as a result of human activities. Remote-sensing techniques were used to assess changes in forest cover, and bird and habitat surveys were performed to assess the effect of land-use changes on endemic species and the bird community. No relationships could be established between the presence of endemics and habitat and landscape variables. This lack of effect may be attributable to the low number of records and compounded by the mosaic structure of the landscape. Although forest cover has been maintained in Kumbira, old-growth forest has been replaced by secondary growth in many areas. Nevertheless these secondary-growth forest patches can maintain a bird community similar to that found in old-growth forest.
AB - Kumbira Forest is the best representative area of Angola's Central Escarpment and the only site known to hold significant populations of four of the five threatened endemic bird species of this habitat. However, the forest is disappearing as a result of human activities. Remote-sensing techniques were used to assess changes in forest cover, and bird and habitat surveys were performed to assess the effect of land-use changes on endemic species and the bird community. No relationships could be established between the presence of endemics and habitat and landscape variables. This lack of effect may be attributable to the low number of records and compounded by the mosaic structure of the landscape. Although forest cover has been maintained in Kumbira, old-growth forest has been replaced by secondary growth in many areas. Nevertheless these secondary-growth forest patches can maintain a bird community similar to that found in old-growth forest.
KW - Agola
KW - endemic birds
KW - escarpment forest
KW - habitat loss
KW - Kumbina
KW - land-use changing
U2 - 10.1017/S0030605313001415
DO - 10.1017/S0030605313001415
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 727
EP - 734
JO - Oryx
JF - Oryx
SN - 0030-6053
IS - 4
ER -