Human-Induced Landscape Changes Homogenize Atlantic Forest Bird Assemblages through Nested Species Loss

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 2; p. e0147058
• Main Authors: Villegas Vallejos, Marcelo Alejandro, Padial, André Andrian, Vitule, Jean Ricardo Simões
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 03.02.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animals; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Bird migration; Bird populations; Birds; Birds - classification; Brazil; Cities; Communities; Crowdsourcing; Data processing; Ecological and Environmental Phenomena; Ecosystem; Ecosystems; Environmental aspects; Forecasts and trends; Forests; Homogenization; Human influences; Human-environment interactions; Indicator species; Initiatives; Landscape; Landscape changes; Observations; Phytogeography; Population Dynamics; Regional analysis; Species composition; Species diversity; Studies; Taxonomy; Terrestrial environments; Urban areas; Urban environments; Urbanization; Brazil

The increasing number of quantitative assessments of homogenization using citizen science data is particularly important in the Neotropics, given its high biodiversity and ecological peculiarity, and whose communities may react differently to landscape changes. We looked for evidence of taxonomic ho...