1. The State of Tropical Bird Biodiversity

  1. Navjot S. Sodhi1,
  2. Çağan H. Şekercioğlu2,
  3. Jos Barlow3,
  4. Scott K. Robinson4

Published Online: 23 MAR 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781444342611.ch1

Book Title

Conservation of Tropical Birds

Conservation of Tropical Birds

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How to Cite

Sodhi, N. S., Şekercioğlu, Ç. H., Barlow, J. and Robinson, S. K. (2011) The State of Tropical Bird Biodiversity, in Conservation of Tropical Birds, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444342611.ch1

Author Information

  1. 1

    National University of Singapore

  2. 2

    Stanford University, USA

  3. 3

    Lancaster University, UK

  4. 4

    University of Florida, UK

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 23 MAR 2011
  2. Published Print: 8 APR 2011

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781444334821

Online ISBN: 9781444342611

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Keywords:

  • state of tropical bird biodiversity - tropical areas, largest proportion of imperiled bird species;
  • imperiled bird biodiversity - tropical region, forefront of bird extinction and endangerment;
  • Spix's Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii), Hawaiian Crow (Corvus hawaiiensis), and Po'ouli (Melamposops phaeosoma) - three bird species, suspected to have gone extinct since 2000;
  • birds, not the most threatened taxonomic group - amphibian and mammal species, currently threatened with extinction;
  • tropics, most critical region for bird biodiversity - and conserving birds, and other organisms;
  • proportions of threatened bird and mammal species - per tropical country, strongly correlated;
  • native forest loss, decelerating over time in tropical Latin America - continuing to accelerate in tropical Asia;
  • threatening processes, causing biodiversity loss - acting alone or in combination;
  • degree of similarity, between species assemblages in countryside habitats - and pristine forest, dependent on land-use patterns and landscape context;
  • species richness decline, in selectively logged forests - compared with unlogged forests in Borneo

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Imperiled bird biodiversity

  • Drivers of endangerment

  • The enigmatic

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