A composição da avifauna do campus da Universidade Estadual de Londrina, norte do Paraná, Brasil

Abstract

Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 23 (1): 145-156, março 2006Com a ocupação humana, a floresta contínua do norte do Paraná cedeu lugar a uma paisagem em mosaico, composta por fragmentos relativamente isolados entre si. Na região de Londrina, no norte do estado, os remanescentes florestais, que dificilmente ultrapassam 100 ha de área, somam apenas 2-4% da cobertura original (IPARDES 1993

Avifauna from a campus of Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Guarapuava, Paraná State, Brazil

“…In general, this family presents several species in urban areas that use floral resources of species employed in landscaping. An example of this may be verified in a survey carried out in the campus of Universidade Estadual de Londrina, where 13 species were registered (LOPES; ANJOS, 2006). The absence of native vegetation, in this survey, is interpreted as responsible for the low species richness in this family.…”

“…These areas commonly are urban and suburban zones comprising or not natural fragments (VOTTO et al, 2006) and studies regarding fragmentation effects in those areas have increasied ANJOS, 2003). In Paraná State, new ornithological contributions were performed in forest remnants such as Galina and Gimenes (2006), Lopes and Anjos (2006) and Philippsen et al (2010). However, for the Center-South region of the State, despite this region shelters an important forest formation, the Ombrophilous Mixed Forest, there is a considerable lack of ornithological studies.…”

Dusting-off the file: A review of knowledge on urban ornithology in Latin America

“…1). In general, urban ornithological studies in Latin America have focused on: (1) urban gradients (Reynaud and Thioulouse, 2000;Leveau andLeveau, 2004, 2005;Juri and Chani, 2005;Faggi and Perepelizin, 2006;Bellocq et al, 2008;Petry and Scherer, 2008;Garaffa et al, 2009;López-Flores et al, 2009;Ortega-Álvarez and MacGregor-Fors, 2009), (2) community comparisons among different urban habitats (Petit et al, 1999;Borges and Guilherme, 2000;Caula et al, 2003;Lucero et al, 2005;Manhães and LouresRibeiro, 2005;Faggi and Perepelizin, 2006;Galina and Gimenes, 2006;Lopes and dos Anjos, 2006;Eduardo et al, 2007;Acevedo and Aide, 2008;Cardozo et al, 2008;MacGregor-Fors et al, 2009a;Ortega-Álvarez and MacGregor-Fors, 2009), (3) bird responses to urban habitat attributes (Leveau andLeveau, 2004, 2006;Faggi and Perepelizin, 2006;MacGregor-Fors, 2008;MacGregor-Fors et al, 2009a;Ortega-Álvarez and MacGregor-Fors, 2009;Suarez-Rubio and Thomlinson, 2009), (4) use of resources by birds within urban systems (Marcondes-Machado et al, 1994;Alves and Pereira, 1998;de Vasconcelos, 1998;Vitali-Veiga and Machado, 2000;Cáceres and Moura, 2003; Baza-Mendonç a and dos Valdés-P...…”

“…Although natural habitats surrounding cities tend to comprise richer bird communities (Borges and Guilherme, 2000;Eduardo et al, 2007), the incorporation of green areas within the urban matrix offers suitable habitat for an important number of bird species (MacGregor-Fors et al, 2009a;Ortega-Álvarez and MacGregorFors, 2009). Specifically, urban parks and natural vegetation remnants within cities have an enormous ecological value for urban systems, as they represent the urban land-uses with highest bird diversity (Faggi and Perepelizin, 2006;Galina and Gimenes, 2006;Lopes and dos Anjos, 2006;Acevedo and Aide, 2008;Cardozo et al, 2008;Ortega-Álvarez and MacGregor-Fors, 2009). However, their size, habitat heterogeneity, and vegetation characteristics (e.g., number of vegetation strata, tree cover, maximum tree height) often determine the structure and composition of bird communities (Caula et al, 2003;Lucero et al, 2005;Manhães and Loures-Ribeiro, 2005;Galina and Gimenes, 2006;MacGregor-Fors, 2008).…”

“…Latin American urban parks often represent fairly similar habitat structure in relation to that of natural habitats, leading to species-rich urban-dwelling bird communities (Scherer et al, 2005). Within tropical regions, natural habitat remnants within University campuses have been identified as crucial for maintaining species-rich bird communities (Lopes and dos Anjos, 2006), including both endemic and endangered species (Vallejo et al, 2009).…”