Linear infrastructure drives biotic homogenization among bird species of a tropical dry forest.

ABSTRACT: Linear infrastructures (LIs) such as roads, railroads, and powerlines are expanding rapidly around the globe. While most future developments are projected to take place in tropical regions, available information on impacts of LIs is biased towards single species studies of solely road impacts in temperate regions. Therefore, we investigated impacts of three types of LIs (road, railroad, and powerline) on the bird community of a tropical dry forest. Point-count surveys to record avian richness and abundance were conducted at 80 plots that were spatially stratified to include sites proximate to all possible LI combinations. Five measures of vegetation structure were collected at each plot as well. We then assessed the relationship between the bird community (i.e., richness, abundance, compos

SUBMITTER: Hewavithana DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12002429 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature