We compared the vegetation structure between old (>70 year) stands of planted diversified native forests and stands of Eucalyptus tereticornis embedded in a mosaic of Eucalyptus stands. We then tested for differences in ...

The Atlantic Forest is the second largest tropical moist forest domain in South America after the Amazon, home to over 800 bird species (223 endemics or 27% of the avifauna). With only 28% of the original vegetation left, ...

Impacts of habitat fragmentation on forest bird communities have often been studied in landscapes dominated by agriculture. The striking structural differences between forest fragments and the matrix have led most researchers ...

Avian communities are comprised of species that interact locally, producing complex networks whose dynamics cannot always be understood or predicted from information at the population level. Globally, more than 1500 species ...

El presente trabajo hace una evaluación general del estado de las poblaciones de aves acuáticas del archipiélago cubano. The present work makes a general evaluation of the state of the waterbird populations of the Cuban ...

Most studies about the impact of urbanization on bird assemblages are from the Northern Hemisphere and most previous research has reported that cities reduced bird species richness and favored the settlement of exotic bird ...

In Trinidad and Tobago, teaching environmental science as situated knowledge at the primary level can be challenging because of a scarcity of resources and knowledge of local natural environments. This study raised questions ...