Ecology and Conservation of Parrots in Their Native and Non-Native Ranges

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: acclimatization; age; algarrobo; Allee effect; Amazon; Amazona; Amazona farinosa; Amazona lilacina; Andes; Ara glaucogularis; attitudes; avian brood manipulation; avipoxvirus; beak and feather disease virus; BFDV; Biology, life sciences; biotic interactions; bird abundance; bird density; blue-throated macaw; captive breeding; captive populations; census; chick starvation; chick supplemental feeding; chick survival; Chlamydia psittaci; Circoviridae; circovirus; CITES; citizen-science; climate change; conservation; conservation actions; conservation criminology; conservation genetics; conservation management; conservation threats; conure; count data; CRAVED; cryptic species; daily behavioral patterns; data integration models; defaunation; demographic history; density; detectability; dispersion; distance sampling; distribution; drivers of extinction; dry forest; drylands; dynamic vegetation model; eBird; Ecological science, the Biosphere; ecology; emerging infectious disease; endangered species; endemism; environmental niche modelling; evolution; flock cohesion; flocking; foster chicks; genetic assignment tests; genetic differentiation; genetic diversity; genomics; glucocorticoids; hand-rearing; haplotypes; harvesting; High Monte; home range; illegal wildlife trade; infectious disease; introduced species; invasion biology; invasive alien species; invasive species; IUCN Red List; Life sciences: general issues; Lilacine Amazon; literature review; Llanos de Moxos; local knowledge; macaw; mangrove; Mathematics and Science; migration; Military Macaw; monitoring; monk parakeet; museomics; Myiopsitta monachus; n/a; naturalized parrots; occupancy models; open-ended learning; parakeet; parrot; parrot abundance; parrot conservation; parrots; PBFD; Perú; pets; pioneer flock; poaching; population; population size; population structure; population survey; predator evasion; probable geographic origin; Psittacid alphaherpesvirus 1; Psittacidae; Psittacidae conservation; psittacids; psittaciformes; RCP2.6; RCP8.5; red-fronted macaw; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; reintroduction; reintroduction techniques; reproduction; reproductive success; Research and information: general; research selection function; roost counts; rose-ringed parakeet; Savage selectivity index; Scarlet Macaw; seasonality; seed dispersal; sex; site fidelity; soft seed viability; soft-release; species distribution models; state observation models; stomatochory; surveillance; survival; thick-billed parrot; threatened species; training; unsustainable use of wildlife; urbanization; viral diversification; viral infection; vocal variation; vulnerable taxa; wild parrots; wild populations; wildlife management; wildlife markets; wildlife trade; world parrot trade
• ISBN: 9783036550107; 9783036550091; 3036550097; 3036550100
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-5010-7

This book focuses on parrots, which are among the most fascinating, attractive, and threatened birds, combining and synthesizing recent research on the biology, ecology, and conservation of both native and non-native parrot populations across the world.