Temporal dynamics of sagebrush songbird abundance in relation to energy development

Carlin, Max; Chalfoun, Anna D.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109096

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“…northern tropics: Woinarski et al., 1988; south‐eastern forests and woodlands: Mac Nally, 1990; central Australian rangelands: Pavey & Nano, 2009) and elsewhere (Cody, 1985; Wiens, 1989). So, within distinct habitat types at local scales and in the absence of significant changes in land management (Sirami et al., 2009), extensive resource development (Carlin & Chalfoun, 2021), or major disturbances such as extensive wildfire (Tingley et al., 2016) or drought (Bennett et al., 2014; Weyland et al., 2019), what should be our expectation of bird community composition through time – constancy or change? Ford (1989) observed that this question merited detailed study.…”

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The stability of bird assemblages across time and the reliability of snapshot surveys

Reid,

Smith,

Scott

et al. 2024

Austral Ecology

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Abstract‘Snapshot’ surveys conducted over 1 year or less are widely used to describe avian community composition. Maron et al. (Austral Ecology, 2005, 30, 383) questioned the utility of snapshot surveys and the conclusions drawn from them following repeat bird surveys at 26 sites in western Victoria, 7 years after initial surveys. They concluded, ‘the distribution of most species did not differ significantly from that expected if species had redistributed at random among sites’. Only five of 54 species recorded in both years had distributions that changed significantly less than expected among sites between the survey periods. We question whether this is the exception rather than the rule for Australian landbird communities in wooded habitats for three reasons: (1) passerine species dominate these communities and tend to remain faithful to a site once a breeding territory has been established; (2) most landbird species are sedentary or migratory, not nomadic; and (3) most Australian passerines are long‐lived, so surveys conducted within decadal timeframes may sample the same individuals. We examined the constancy of bird community composition by conducting repeat surveys at 29 sites in two vegetation types in the Namoi Valley, northern New South Wales, 7 years after the first survey. Bird assemblage composition in our study exhibited high levels of turnover between surveys, but 21 of 62 species present in both survey periods were significantly more likely to be found at the same sites in the second period as the first, and the tendency of most species was of site fidelity. Mantel tests demonstrated that assemblage composition at the same sites was more similar than expected by chance. Moderate levels of site fidelity among species and significant levels of assemblage composition constancy among sites should be the expectation when monitoring Australian landbird communities in wooded habitats over extended timeframes, except in the cases of major landscape transformation and extreme climatic disruptions.

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The stability of bird assemblages across time and the reliability of snapshot surveys

Reid,

Smith,

Scott

et al. 2024

Austral Ecology

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Impacts of Solar Energy Development On Breeding Birds in Desert Grasslands In South Central New Mexico

Young,

Meliopoulos,

Desmond

et al. 2024

Environmental Management

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Solar energy is growing at unprecedented rates, with the most development projected to occur in areas with high concentrations of threatened and endangered species, yet its effects on wildlife remain largely unexplored. In 2014 and 2015 we examined the influence of a solar facility on avian community occupancy in the Nutt grasslands of south-central New Mexico. We examined the effect of distance to solar facility as well as other habitat covariates, including vegetation structure and orthopteran abundance, on community occupancy and occupancy trends for individual species. We did not find a significant effect of distance to solar facility on occupancy probability for the songbird community. Instead, orthopteran abundance had a significant positive effect on occupancy probability for the community. Two synanthropic species, Eurasian-collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto), and house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), were found almost exclusively within the solar facility and both species increased between years, suggesting that developments in natural habitats may facilitate populations of synanthropic species. These results demonstrate the variability in responses of different species to a solar facility and the interacting influence of habitat characteristics and disturbance associated with development.

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Avian community responses to energy development and woody encroachment

Yeiser,

Howell,

Matthews

et al. 2024

Biological Conservation

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Temporal dynamics of sagebrush songbird abundance in relation to energy development

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

The stability of bird assemblages across time and the reliability of snapshot surveys

The stability of bird assemblages across time and the reliability of snapshot surveys

Impacts of Solar Energy Development On Breeding Birds in Desert Grasslands In South Central New Mexico

Avian community responses to energy development and woody encroachment

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