Foraging profile of a Salmon Gum woodland avifauna in Western Australia

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-111

  Recher, H F ^a   Davis, Jr ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Conservation; Foraging ecology; Salmon Gum; Western Australia; Woodland

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONSERVATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INSECTIVORE; WOODLAND;

AUSTRALIA;

AVES; EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS SALMONOPHLOIA; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; LASTHENIA; RAPTORES;

EID: 0038661851     PISSN: 0035922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Arnold G & Weeldenburg J 1998 The effects of isolation, habitat fragmentation and degradation by livestock grazing on the use by birds of patches of Gimlet Eucalyptus salubris woodland in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. Pacific Conservation Biology 4:155-163.
2. Boland D, Brooker M, Chippendale G, Hall N, Hyland B, Johnston R, Kleinig D & Turner J 1984 Forest Trees of Australia. CSIRO, Melbourne.
3. Cale P 1990 The value of road reserves to the avifauna of the central Wheatbelt of Western Australia. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 16:359-367.
4. Cameron E 1985. Habitat usage and foraging behaviour of three fantails (Rhipidura: Pachycephalidae). In: Birds of Eucalypt Forest and Woodland: Ecology, Conservation, Management (eds A Keast, H F Recher, H Ford & D Saunders). Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, 177-191.
5. Crome F 1978 Foraging ecology of an assemblage of birds in lowland rainforest in northern Queensland. Australian Journal of Ecology 3:195-212.
6. Davies S 1976 Studies of the flowering season and production of some arid zone shrubs and trees in Western Australia. Journal of Ecology 64:655-687.
7. Johnstone R E 2001 Checklist of the birds of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 63:75-90.
8. Kitchener D, Dell J, Muir B & Palmer M 1982 Birds in Western Australian Wheatbelt reserves - implications for conservation. Biological Conservation 22:127-163.
9. Mac Nally R 1994 Habitat-specific guild structure of forest birds in south-eastern Australia: a regional scale perspective. Journal of Animal Ecology 63:988-1001.
10. Morris W J & Wooller R D 2001 The structure and dynamics of an assemblage of small birds in a semi-arid woodland of south-western Australia. Emu 101:7-12.
11. Newbey K, Keighery G & Hall N 1995 Vegetation and flora. In: The Biological Survey of the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Part II. Boorabbin-Southern Cross Study Area (eds G Keighery, N McKenzie and N Hall). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 49:17-30.
12. Pyke G H & Recher H F 1986 Relationships between nectar production and seasonal patterns of density and nesting of resident honeyeaters in heathland near Sydney. Australian Journal of Ecology 11:195-200.
13. Pyke G H & Recher H F 1988 Seasonal patterns of capture rate and resource abundance for honeyeaters and silvereyes in heathland near Sydney. Emu 88:33-42.
14. Pyke G H, O'Connor P J & Recher H F 1993 Relationship between nectar production and yearly and spatial variation in density and nesting of resident honeyeaters in heathland near Sydney. Australian Journal of Ecology 18:221-9.
15. Recher H F 1989 Foraging segregation of Australian warblers (Acanthizidae) in open-forest near Sydney, New South Wales. Emu 89:204-215
16. Recher H F & Davis W E 1997. Foraging ecology of a mulga bird community. Wildlife Research 24:27-43.
17. Recher H F & Davis W E 1998. The foraging profile of a wandoo woodland avifauna in early spring. Australian Journal of Ecology 23:514-527.
18. Recher H F, Davis W E & Calver M 2002 Resource partitioning and the comparative foraging ecology of five species of ground-pouncing birds in Western Australian eucalypt woodlands. Ornithological Science 1:29-40.
19. Recher H F, Davis W E & Holmes R T 1987 Ecology of Brown and Striated Thornbills in forests of southeastern New South Wales. Emu 87:1-13.
20. Recher H F & Gebski V 1989 Analysis of the foraging ecology of eucalypt forest birds; sequential versus single-point observations. Studies in Avian Biology 13:534-48.
21. Recher H F, Holmes R T, Schulz M, Shields J & Kavanagh R 1985 Foraging patterns of breeding birds in eucalypt forest and woodland of southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 10:399-419.
22. Recher H F, Majer J D & Ganesh S 1996 Seasonality of canopy invertebrate communities in eucalypt forests of eastern and western Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 21:64-80.
23. Remsen J & Robinson S 1990 A classification scheme for foraging behaviour of birds in terrestrial habitats. Studies in Avian Biology 13:144-160.
24. Saunders D 1989 Changes in the avifauna of a region, district and remnant as a result of fragmentation of native vegetation: the Wheatbelt of Western Australia. A Case Study. Biological Conservation 64:203-218.
25. Saunders D & Ingram J 1995. Birds of Southwestern Australia. An Atlas of Changes in the Distribution and Abundance of the Wheatbelt Avifauna. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton.
26. Wilson K & Recher H F 2001 Foraging ecology and habitat selection of the Yellow-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus ornatus in a Western Australian woodland. Emu 101:89-94.