Efeito de alterações do habitat na composição e estrutura da comunidade de aves de sub-bosque no Planalto Paulista, Sudeste do Brasil / Effects of habitat modification in the composition and structure of the understory bird community of Planalto Paulista, Southern Brazil

AUTOR(ES)

Julio César da Costa

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Birds are one of the traditionally studied groups on environmental impact assessments, which seek to understand the effects of human activities on communities and/or populations. This understanding is essential to create guidelines for future enterprises or for planning the use of land, with the objective of mitigating the negative effects of human activities. From this perspective, this work studied two effects at different scales in the understory bird community of the Atlantic Forest in the Planalto Paulista. The first refers to a broad scale, in which there is a gradient of habitat loss in the sampled landscape resulting from various human activities. The second sought to identify the effects of the mining activities in a more delimited scale. The results show that about 50% of the understory bird community shall be affected by habitat loss and reach critical levels of abundance or become extinct in areas with low proportions of forest habitats. On the other hand, about 30% of the species tend to benefit from the habitat loss and increase the size of the population. The species most affected by the loss of habitat are those endemic to the Atlantic Forest and those most sensitive to changes in habitat. The analysis of the distance gradient from the limestone mine has found no significant differences in the richness and abundance of birds and richness and abundance of groups of sensitivity to disturbances in the habitat. That suggests that the mining has no drastic effect in the understory bird community. It is suggested that other aspects of the community, such as reproduction, behaviour, consumption of fruit and seed dispersal may be more appropriate for evaluating the impacts of the mining in the community of birds in the study area. Also, a time series evaluation of the sampled populationssize might reveal fluctuations resulting from the activities in the mine.

ASSUNTO(S)

environmental impacts birds mining atlantic forest. mata atlântica mineração. aves impacto ambiental

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