Keywords :
Road Edge; Avian Quilds; Dry Evergreen Forest; Thailand
บทคัดย่อ :
Creation of roadside forest edges can have indirect effects on forest bird communities, as edges can promote species detrimental to forest-nesting birds such as nest predators. We
assessed species-specific rates of nest survival of understory birds, relative abundances of specific nest predators and predator-specific rates of nest predation relative to the distance
from roadside forest edge in a dry evergreen forest in northeastern Thailand. During the breeding seasons (FebruaryeAugust) of 2014-2016 we searched for nests. The fourth-most important, Common Green Magpie, was the only predator responsible for more nest predation events closer to habitat edge compared to interior. Our study suggests that the impacts of edges on nesting success are highly dependent on the nest predator community and the species-specific responses of predators to edges.
เอกสารอ้างอิง :
Khamcha, D., Corlett, R. T., Powell, L. A., Savini, T., Lynam, A. J., & Gale, G. A. (2018a). Road induced edge effects on a forest bird community in tropical Asia. Avian Research, 9(1), 1-13.
