Changes in nesting sites abundance and their use by woodpeckers along an urban gradient: a ten-year comparison
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2019 |
| Descripción: | Woodpeckers nesting substrate abundance may be reduced by urban expansion, negatively affecting their reproduction. Long-term studies in the tropics are rare but valuable to estimate how urban development has affected ecological communities. We present a ten-year comparison on nesting substrate abundance and their use by Melanerpes rubricapillus and M. chrysauchen woodpeckers along an urban gradient in Golfito, Costa Rica; which include three habitats and three substrates (snags, palms, and posts). Conditions remained unchanged in non-urban areas. In semi-urban areas, snag, posts, and nests on them, have decreased. In urban areas, despite snags and posts remaining constant, their use also decreased. In semi-urban and urban areas, palms and palm nests increased. This long term comparison indicates that woodpeckers took advantage of the increased presence of ornamental palms in gardens. |
| País: | Kérwá |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Kérwá |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/88525 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?pid=S0034-77442019000200274&script=sci_arttext https://hdl.handle.net/10669/88525 |
| Palabra clave: | COSTA RICA BIRDS HABITATS URBAN DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT |