10.6084/m9.figshare.4123434.v1
Cristian Steven Sevillano Rios
Cristian Steven
Sevillano Rios
Avian community structure and habitat use of Polylepis forests along an elevation gradient DataBase
figshare
2017
Andean birds
Climate Change
conservation
Endemics
Threatened species
Polylepis birds
montane regions
Ecology not elsewhere classified
2017-04-21 12:35:35
Dataset
https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Avian_community_structure_and_habitat_use_of_Polylepis_forests_along_an_elevation_gradient_DataBase/4123434
<p>In 2014-2015, we studied bird
communities and 19 associated local and landscape attributes within five
forested glacial valleys within the Cordillera
Blanca and Huascaran National Park, Peru. Birds were surveyed in dry (May-August)
and wet (January-April) seasons at 130 points distributed along an elevational
gradient (3,300-4,700 masl) and analyzed using Canonical Correspondence
Analysis (CCA). A
total of 50 species of birds, including 13 species of high conservation concern,
were associated with four basic habitat types: (1) <i>Polylepis sericea</i> forests at low elevations, (2) <i>P. weberbaueri</i> forests at high
elevations, (3) Puna grassland and (4) shrublands.</p>