Ranging behaviour and habitat use by an Afrotropical songbird in a fragmented landscape

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 581-589

  Githiru, Mwangi ^a,b,c   Lens, Luc ^d   Bennun, Leon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e BIRDLIFE INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; Habitat selection; Radio telemetry; Robin; Taita

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; RADIOTELEMETRY; RANGE SIZE; SONGBIRD; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

PASSERI; POGONOCICHLA STELLATA;

EID: 35448970490     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: 13652028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2007.00772.x     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Aebischer, N.J., Robertson, P.A. Kenward, R.E. (1993) Compositional analysis of habitat use from animal radio-tracking data. Ecology 74, 1313 1325.
2. Alldredge, J.R. Ratti, J.T. (1986) Comparison of some statistical techniques for analysis of resource selection. J. Wildl. Manage. 50, 157 165.
3. Alsobrook, J.P. II., Leckman, J.F., Goodman, W.K., Rasmussen, S.A. Pauls, D.L. (1999) Segregation analysis of obsessive-compulsive disorder using symptom-based factor scores. J. Am. Med. Gen. 88, 669 675.
4. Bennun, L., Dranzoa, C. Pomeroy, D. (1996) The forest birds of Kenya and Uganda. J. East Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 85, 23 48.
5. Bennun, L.A. Njoroge, P. (1999) Important Bird Areas in Kenya. EANHS, Nairobi.
6. Both, C. Visser, M.E. (2000) Breeding territory size affects fitness: an experimental study on competition at the individual level. J. Anim. Ecol. 69, 1021 1030.
7. Brooks, T., Lens, L., Barnes, J., Kihuria, J.K. Wilder, C. (1998) The conservation status of the forest birds of the Taita Hills, Kenya. Bird Conserv. Int. 8, 119 139.
8. Burt, W.H. (1943) Territoriality and home range concepts as applied to mammals. J. Mammal. 24, 346 352.
9. Galbusera, P., Githiru, M., Lens, L. Matthysen, E. (2004) Genetic equilibrium despite habitat fragmentation in an Afrotropical bird. Mol. Ecol. 13, 1409 1421.
10. Githiru, M. (2003) Endemic forest birds of the Taita Hills: using a model species to understand the effects of habitat fragmentation on small populations. DPhil. Thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford.
11. Githiru, M., Bennun, L., Lens, L. Ogol, C.P.K.O. (2005a) Spatial and temporal variation in fruit and fruit-eating birds in the Taita Hills, southeast Kenya. Ostrich 76, 37 44.
12. Githiru, M., Lens, L. Cresswell, W. (2005b) Nest predation in a fragmented Afrotropical forest: evidence from natural and artificial nests. Biol. Conserv. 123, 189 196.
13. Githiru, M. Lens, L. (2006) Demography of an Afrotropical passerine in a highly fragmented and threatened forest landscape. Anim. Conserv. 9, 21 27.
14. Hall, L.S., Krausman, P.R. Morrison, M.L. (1997) The habitat concept and a plea for standard terminology. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 25, 173 182.
15. Harris, S., Cresswell, W.J., Forde, P.G., Trewhella, W.J., Woollard, T. Wray, S. (1990) Home-range analysis using radio-tracking data - a review of problems and techniques particularly as applied to the study of mammals. Mammal Rev. 20, 97 123.
16. Hodder, K.H., Kenward, R.E., Walls, S.S. Clarke, R.T. (1998) Estimating core ranges: a comparison of techniques using the common buzzard (Buteo buteo). J. Raptor Res. 32, 82 89.
17. Jacobs, J. (1974) Quantitative measurement of food selection. Oecologia 14, 413 417.
18. Johnson, D.H. (1980) The comparison of usage and availability measurements for evaluating resource preference. Ecology 61, 65 71.
19. Johnson, G.D., Pebworth, J.L. Krueger, H.O. (1991) Retention of transmitters attached to passerines using a glue-on technique. J. Field Ornithol. 62, 486 491.
20. Keith, S., Urban, E.K. Fry, C.H., Eds. (1992) The Birds of Africa, Vol. IV, Academic Press, London.
21. Kenward, R.E. Hodder, K.H. (1996) Ranges V: An Analysis System for Biological Location Data. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Wareham, Dorset, U.K.
22. Kenward, R.E. (2001) A Manual for Wildlife Radio Tagging. Academic Press, London.
23. Kenward, R.E., South, A. Walls, S.S. (2002) Ranges 6: For the Analysis of Tracking and Location Data, v1.00. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Wareham, Dorset.
24. Krebs, J.R. (1971) Territory and breeding density in the Great Tit, Parus major L. Ecology 52, 2 22.
25. Leary, A.W., Mazaika, R. Bechard, M.J. (1998) Factors affecting the size of ferruginous hawk home ranges. Wilson Bull. 110, 198 205.
26. Lens, L., Van Dongen, S. Wilder, C. (1999) Fluctuating asymmetry increases with habitat disturbance in seven bird species of a fragmented afrotropical forest. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266, 1241 1246.
27. Lens, L., Van Dongen, S., Norris, K., Githiru, M. Matthysen, E. (2002) Avian persistence in fragmented rainforest. Science 298, 1236 1238.
28. Murphy, R.K., Payne, N.F. Anderson, R.K. (1985) White-tailed deer use of an irrigated agriculture-grassland complex in central Wisconsin. J. Wildl. Manage. 49, 125 128.
29. Oatley, T.B. (1982a) The starred robin in Natal, Part 3: Breeding, populations and plumages. Ostrich 53, 206 221.
30. Oatley, T.B. (1982b) The starred robin in Natal, Part 2: Annual cycles and feeding ecology. Ostrich 53, 193 205.
31. Oatley, T.B. (1982c) The starred robin in Natal, Part 1: Behaviour, territory and habitat. Ostrich 53, 135 146.
32. Porter, W.F. Church, K.E. (1987) Effects of environmental pattern on habitat preference analysis. J. Wildl. Manage. 51, 681 685.
33. Raim, A. (1978) A radio transmitter attachment for small passerine birds. Bird-banding 49, 326 332.
34. Redpath, S.M. (1995) Habitat fragmentation and the individual: tawny owls Strix aluco in woodland patches. J. Anim. Ecol. 64, 652 661.
35. Ridley, J., Komdeur, J. Sutherland, W.J. (2004) Incorporating territory compression into population models. Oikos 105, 101 108.
36. Roy, L.D. Dorrance, M.J. (1985) Coyote movements, habitat use, and vulnerability in central Alberta. J. Wildl. Manage. 49, 307 313.
37. Seaman, D.E., Millspaugh, J.J., Kernohan, B.J., Brundige, G.C., Raedeke, K.J. Gitzen, R.A. (1999) Effects of sample size on kernel home range estimates. J. Wildl. Manage. 63, 739 747.
38. Severinghaus, L.L. (1996) Territory strategy of the migratory brown shrike Lanius cristatus. Ibis 138, 460 465.
39. Smith, L.M., Hupp, J.W. Ratti, J.T. (1982) Habitat use and home range of gray partridge in eastern south Dakota. J. Wildl. Manage. 46, 580 587.
40. SPSS, Inc. (2001) SPSS for Windows. SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL.
41. Swihart, R.K. Slade, N.A. (1985) Testing for independence of observations in animal movements. Ecology 66, 1176 1184.
42. Sykes, P.W.J., Carpenter, J.W., Holzman, S. Geissler, P.H. (1990) Evaluation of three miniature radio transmitter attachment methods for small passerines. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 18, 41 48.
43. Tabachnick, B.G. Fidell, L.S. (2001) Using Multivariate Statistics, 4th edn. Allyn and Bacon, Boston.
44. Thomas, D.L. Taylor, E.J. (1990) Study designs and tests for comparing resource use and availability. J. Wildl. Manage. 54, 322 330.
45. Wilder, C.M., Brooks, T.M. Lens, L. (2000) Vegetation structure and composition of the Taita Hills forests. J. East Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 87, 181 187.
46. Wray, S., Cresswell, W.J., White, P.C.L. Harris, S. (1992) What, if anything, is a core area? An analysis of the problems of describing internal range configurations. In: Wildlife Telemetry: Remote Monitoring and Tracking of Animals (Eds I. G. Priede S. M. Swift pp. 256 271. Ellis Horwood, Chichester.