Changes in nesting sites abundance and their use by woodpeckers along an urban gradient: a ten-year comparison
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| Awduron: | , |
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| Fformat: | artículo original |
| Statws: | Versión publicada |
| Dyddiad Cyhoeddi: | 2019 |
| Disgrifiad: | 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. |
| Gwlad: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Sefydliad: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Iaith: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/37241 |
| Mynediad Ar-lein: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/37241 |
| Allweddair: | Costa Rica; Golfito; Melanerpes chrysauchen; Melanerpes rubricapillus; nests; snags. Costa Rica; Golfito; Melanerpes chrysauchen; Melanerpes rubricapillus; nidos; tocones. |