3. Tropical Bird Extinctions

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

Published Online: 23 MAR 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9781444342611.ch3

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) Tropical Bird Extinctions, in Conservation of Tropical Birds, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444342611.ch3

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:

  • tropical bird extinctions - current bird extinction rate, 30 times more than expected;
  • concept of extinction debt - whether birds are the most endangered taxa;
  • background extinction rate, one extinction per million species-years (MSY) - consequence of environmental change, newly established competitive interactions, and occasional catastrophes;
  • Stork (2010), arguing that species extinctions - less frequent than expected, due to factors as increased availability of regenerating forests;
  • time taken to lose all the sensitive species - following habitat perturbation, called “relaxation time”;
  • recent bird extinctions - loss of bird species at San Antonio (Colombia), 1911 to 1990;
  • forest fragments, gaining disturbance-tolerance - or invasive species;
  • drivers of extinctions - synergistic feedbacks, threatening species in disturbed tropical rainforests, decreased survival, fecundity, resulting in extinction of a species;
  • specialization, one of the traits - making a species sensitive to disturbance;
  • extinction proneness - affected by size of a species' geographical range

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Extinctions over time

  • Extinction debt

  • Are birds the most endangered taxa?

  • Case studies of recent bird extinctions

  • Drivers of extinctions

  • Extinction vulnerability

  • Ecosystem resonance of bird extinctions

  • Extinction resistence

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