The Effects of Rainfall, Temperature, and Wind on a Community of Montane Birds in Shei-Pa National Park, Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: Bruno A. Walther, Jane Ren-Jen Chen, Hui-Shan Lin, and Yuan-Hsun Sun (2017) Montane birds are regularly exposed to extreme weather variations. Taiwan's subtropical montane avifauna (which contains many endemic species) is regularly exposed to large weather fluctuations. From 2010 to 2013, we conducted monthly censuses to study the influence of monthly weather variations on species richness and bird density of a montane bird community (> 3000 m a. s. l.) in Shei-Pa National Park. Censuses were conducted along a trail which traverses four distinct habitats with increasing altitude: bush forest ecotone, post- re grassland, conifer forest, and rocky bushland. The highly variable weather corresponded with large fluctuations in the bird community. We found that lower temperatures had a ne

SUBMITTER: Walther BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517767 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature