2016
DOI: 10.55431/jco.2016.29.21-27
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Avian biodiversity in a pasture-dominated ecosystem

Jason P. Hernandez

Abstract: Burgeoning human populations have created many challenges for conservation of biodiversity, as ever-larger areas of land are converted to agricultural and other forms of production. Protected reserves alone are not sufficient to sustain biodiversity in a world of increasing human needs, so it is necessary to understand the extent to which biodiversity can exist within highly altered, agricultural ecosystems. From 11 May to 8 August 2013, bird diversity was surveyed at an agricultural site on Hispaniola, utiliz… Show more

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“…Other tropical biodiversity studies have found a positive association between anthropogenically disturbed habitats and agroforestry systems and avian diversity, as also seen in our study. For example, Hernandez (2016) found agroforestry systems combined with protected reserves to be important habitat for avian biodiversity conservation on Hispaniola. Similarly, our results demonstrate the importance of agroforestry systems interspersed with natural and semi-natural habitats to the bird communities of Grenada.…”
Section: Model I Aicmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Other tropical biodiversity studies have found a positive association between anthropogenically disturbed habitats and agroforestry systems and avian diversity, as also seen in our study. For example, Hernandez (2016) found agroforestry systems combined with protected reserves to be important habitat for avian biodiversity conservation on Hispaniola. Similarly, our results demonstrate the importance of agroforestry systems interspersed with natural and semi-natural habitats to the bird communities of Grenada.…”
Section: Model I Aicmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Western conservation strategy often focuses on implementing protected reserves where land clearing and hunting are forbidden (e.g., Pasquier 1980). Such protected reserves are a critical part of conservation technique in tropical forested landscapes because a 90% deforestation of a tropical forest can result in a loss of 50% of biodiversity (Terborgh 1992), and the impacts of biodiversity loss due to human land development can persist for decades (Hansen et al 2005, Hernandez 2016). On Small Island Developing States (SIDS), it may be insufficient to rely solely on protected reserves to conserve tropical forest biodiversity because anthropogenic land uses adjacent to protected reserves can decrease the benefit of protected reserves (e.g., in search of economic opportunities, humans living adjacent to protected areas may enter reserves; Vandermeer and Perfecto 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%