The avifaunas of some fragmented, periurban, coastal woodlands in south-eastern Australia

Avian movement across abrupt ecological edges: Differential responses to housing density in an urban matrix

“…However, various measurements of housing are a common variable with which bird community composition, species richness and density are often related. Therefore we agree with other authors in suggesting that housing may be a surrogate variable for several factors associated with urbanization such as plant and food supplementation, or pets and human disturbance levels (Freisen et al, 1995;Jokimaki and Huhta, 1996;Yeoman and Mac Nally, 2005). Experimental manipulation of suburban matrix characteristics is needed to help determine the identity of these factors and their effect, especially as some potentially influence both daily movements and dispersal movements of sub-populations.…”

Interspecific competition and small bird diversity in an urbanizing landscape

“…Landscape variables had no substantial effect on bird species richness, abundance or community composition throughout the sites surveyed. Previous Australian studies of bird assemblages in peri-urban environments have also found that remnant size and connectivity did not significantly affect species richness, individual abundance or community composition (Parsons et al, 2003;Yeoman and Mac Nally, 2005).…”

Diversity of native and exotic birds across an urban gradient in a New Zealand city

“…Exotic species are less likely to dominate with respect to numbers of species and individuals in bush fragments (Parsons et al, 2003;Yeoman and Mac Nally, 2005). Blackbirds (Turdus merula) were the most ubiquitous exotic: they prefer modified habitat but may be found in native bush, with numbers declining with distance from the edge (Wilson et al, 1988).…”