The principles of island biogeography are rarely used to investigate the animal assemblages of Amazonian river islands. Here, we apply this approach to compare bird assemblages of Amazonian river islands with a variety of mainland habitats. We also examine how bird species diversity and composition are related to island physical attributes. Birds were sampled with mist nets and qualitative censuses on 11 river islands and at 24 mainland sites on the lower reaches of the Rio Negro in the Brazilian Amazon. Island bird assemblages are characterized by lower species richness and a higher abundance of a few dominant species. Additionally, species composition of the islands was significantly distinct from the mainland, including the nearby floodp...
Avian diversity in fragmented Amazonian landscapes depends on a balance between extinction and colon...
Nested structures of species assemblages have been frequently associated with patch size and isolati...
The main hypothesis is that waterbird richness in Amazonian lakes differs between white- and black-w...
The principles of island biogeography are rarely applied to the animal assemblages of Amazonian rive...
Despite the importance of rivers in Amazonian biogeography, avian distribution patterns in river-cre...
Despite the importance of rivers in Amazonian biogeography, avian distribution patterns in river-cre...
This study is the first to present a quantitative survey of bird species occurring in the archipelag...
The Amazon rainforest harbours -10% of the world's birds, and more than 400 species are regularly re...
Mega-hydroelectric dams in lowland Amazonia create large archipelagos of upland forest, yet few stud...
<div><p>Tropical bird assemblages display patterns of high alpha and beta diversity and, as tropical...
We compared the relative contribution of blackwater inundation forest (igapo) and unflooded (terra f...
Many endemic birds are threatened with extinction in Brazil's Atlantic forest and several inshore is...
Abstract The importance of estimating the biological diversity and understanding how ecological spec...
Aim: Current diversity patterns in local communities result from historical and contemporary events ...
Tropical bird assemblages display patterns of high alpha and beta diversity and, as tropical birds e...
Avian diversity in fragmented Amazonian landscapes depends on a balance between extinction and colon...
Nested structures of species assemblages have been frequently associated with patch size and isolati...
The main hypothesis is that waterbird richness in Amazonian lakes differs between white- and black-w...
The principles of island biogeography are rarely applied to the animal assemblages of Amazonian rive...
Despite the importance of rivers in Amazonian biogeography, avian distribution patterns in river-cre...
Despite the importance of rivers in Amazonian biogeography, avian distribution patterns in river-cre...
This study is the first to present a quantitative survey of bird species occurring in the archipelag...
The Amazon rainforest harbours -10% of the world's birds, and more than 400 species are regularly re...
Mega-hydroelectric dams in lowland Amazonia create large archipelagos of upland forest, yet few stud...
<div><p>Tropical bird assemblages display patterns of high alpha and beta diversity and, as tropical...
We compared the relative contribution of blackwater inundation forest (igapo) and unflooded (terra f...
Many endemic birds are threatened with extinction in Brazil's Atlantic forest and several inshore is...
Abstract The importance of estimating the biological diversity and understanding how ecological spec...
Aim: Current diversity patterns in local communities result from historical and contemporary events ...
Tropical bird assemblages display patterns of high alpha and beta diversity and, as tropical birds e...
Avian diversity in fragmented Amazonian landscapes depends on a balance between extinction and colon...
Nested structures of species assemblages have been frequently associated with patch size and isolati...
The main hypothesis is that waterbird richness in Amazonian lakes differs between white- and black-w...