Conservation value for birds of traditionally managed isolated trees in an agricultural landscape of Madagascar

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2719-2742

  Martin, Emily A ^a   Ratsimisetra, Lalaïna ^b   Laloë, Francis ^a   Carrière, Stéphanie M ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTANANARIVO   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Biodiversity conservation; Birds; Community based resource management; Isolated trees; Madagascar; Ranomafana Andringitra forest corridor; Traditional practices

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HABITAT CORRIDOR; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NATIONAL PARK; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ANDRINGITRA NATIONAL PARK; FIANARANTSOA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR; RANOMAFANA NATIONAL PARK;

AVES;

EID: 70350660534     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9671-x     Document Type: Article

References (72)

1. Agrawal A, Gibson CC (1999) Enchantment and disenchantment: the role of community in natural resource conservation. World Dev 27:629-649. doi:10.1016/S0305-750X(98)00161-2.
2. Altieri MA (2002) Agroecology: the science of natural resource management for poor farmers in marginal environments. Agric Ecosyst Environ 93:1-24. doi:10.1016/S0167-8809(02)00085-3.
3. Bacles CFE, Lowe AJ, Ennos RA (2006) Effective seed dispersal across a fragmented landscape. Science 311:628. doi:10.1126/science.1121543.
4. Bellefontaine R, Petit S, Pain-Orcet M, Deleporte P, Bertault J-G (2001) Les arbres hors forêt. Vers une meilleure prise en compte. CIRAD/FAO, Cahier FAO no 35, p 214, Rome.
5. Berkes F (1999) Sacred ecology: traditional ecological knowledge and resource management. Taylor & Francis, Philadelphia.
6. Berkes F (2004) Rethinking community-based conservation. Conserv Biol 18:621-630. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00077.x.
7. Berkes F, Folke C, Gadgil M (1995) Traditional ecological knowledge, biodiversity, resilience and sustainability. In: Perrings CA (ed) Biodiversity conservation. Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp 281-299.
8. Berkes F, Colding J, Folke C (2000) Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecol Appl 10:1251-1262. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[1251:ROTEKA]2.0.CO;2.
9. Blanc-Pamard C, Ramiarantsoa HR (2007) Normes environnementales, transferts de gestion et recompositions territoriales en pays betsileo (Madagascar). Nat Sci Soc 15:253-268. doi:10.1051/nss:2007055.
10. Bleher B, Böhning-Gaese K (2001) Consequences of frugivore diversity for seed dispersal, seedling establishment and the spatial pattern of seedlings and trees. Oecologia 129:385-394.
11. Bodin O, Tengoe M, Norman A, Lundberg J, Elmqvist T (2006) The value of small size: loss of forest patches and ecological thresholds in southern Madagascar. Ecol Appl 16:440-451. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[0440:TVOSSL]2.0.CO;2.
12. Boulinier T (1998) Estimating species richness: the importance of heterogeneity in species detectability. Ecology 79:1018-1028.
13. Burnham KP, Overton WS (1979) Robust estimation of population size when capture probabilities vary among animals. Ecology 60:927-936. doi:10.2307/1936861.
14. Carrière SM (2002) 'Orphan trees of the forest': why do Ntumu farmers of southern Cameroon protect trees in their swidden fields? J Ethnobiol 22:133-162.
15. Carrière SM, Letourmy P, McKey D (2002) Effects of remnants trees in fallows on diversity and structure of forest regrowth in a slash-and-burn agricultural system in southern Cameroon. J Trop Ecol 18:375-396.
16. Carrière-Buchsenschutz SM (2006) L'urgence d'une confirmation par la science du rôle écologique du corridor forestier de Fianarantsoa. Etud Rurales 178:181-196.
17. Chao A (1987) Estimating the population size for capture-recapture data with unequal catchability. Biometrics 43:783-791. doi:10.2307/2531532.
18. Colding J, Folke C (1997) The relations among threatened species, their protection, and taboos. Ecol Soc 1:6.
19. Colwell RK (2006) EstimateS: statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from samples. Version 8. Persistent URL .
20. Da Silva JM, Uhl C, Murray G (1996) Plant succession, landscape management, and the ecology of frugivorous birds in abandoned Amazonian pastures. Conserv Biol 10:491-503. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10020491.x.
21. Daily GC, Ehrlich PR, Sanchez-Afofeifa GA (2001) Countryside biogeography: use of human-dominated habitats by the avifauna of southern Costa Rica. Ecol Appl 11:1-13. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2001)011[0001:CBUOHD]2.0.CO;2.
22. Dunn RR (2000) Isolated trees as foci of diversity in active and fallow fields. Biol Conserv 95:317-321. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(00)00025-2.
23. Fischer J, Lindenmayer DB (2002) The conservation value of paddock trees for birds in a variegated landscape in southern New South Wales. 1. Species composition and site occupancy patterns. Biodivers Conserv 11:807-832. doi: 10.1023/A:1015371511169.
24. Fleming TH, Breitwisch R, Whitesides GH (1987) Patterns of tropical vertebrate frugivore diversity. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 18:91-109. doi:10.1146/annurev.es.18.110187.000515.
25. Gadgil M, Berkes F (1991) Traditional resource management systems. Resour Manage Opt 8:127-141.
26. Gadgil M, Berkes F, Folke C (1993) Indigenous knowledge for biodiversity conservation. Ambio 22:151-156.
27. Garnett ST, Sayer J, du Toit JT (2007) Improving the effectiveness of interventions to balance conservation and development: a conceptual framework. Ecol Soc 12:2.
28. Goodman SM, Benstead JP (eds) (2003) The natural history of Madagascar. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, p 1709.
29. Goodman SM, Ganzhorn JU (1997) Rarity of figs (Ficus) on Madagascar and its relationship to a depauperate frugivore community. Rev Ecol (Terre Vie) 52:321-329.
30. Goodman SM, Raherilalao MJ (2003) Effects of forest fragmentation on bird communities. In: Goodman SM, Benstead JP (eds) The natural history of Madagascar. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, pp 1064-1066.
31. Gotelli N, Colwell RK (2001) Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecol Lett 4:379-391. doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2001.00230.x.
32. Gray MA, Baldauf SL, Mayhew PJ, Hill JK (2007) The response of avian feeding guilds to tropical forest disturbance. Conserv Biol 21:133-141. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00557.x.
33. Guevara S, Laborde J (1993) Monitoring seed dispersal at isolated standing trees in tropical pasture: consequences for local species availability. Vegetatio 107-108:319-338.
34. Guevara S, Laborde J, Sánchez-Rios G (2004) Rain forest regeneration beneath the canopy of fig trees isolated in pastures of Los Tuxtlas, Mexico. Biotropica 36:99-108.
35. Harvey CA, Haber WA (1999) Remnant trees and the conservation of biodiversity in Costa Rican pastures. Agrofor Syst 44:37-68. doi:10.1023/A:1006122211692.
36. Hughes JB, Daily GC, Ehrlich PR (2002) Conservation of tropical forest birds in countryside habitats. Ecol Lett 5:121-129. doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00294.x.
37. Jones JPG, Andriamarovololona MM, Hockley N (2008) The importance of taboos and social norms to conservation in Madagascar. Conserv Biol 22:976-986. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00970.x.
38. Jordano P (2007) Differential contribution of frugivores to complex seed dispersal patterns. P Natl Acad Sci 104:3278-3282.
39. Koechlin J, Guillaumet JL, Morat P (1974) Flore et végétation de Madagascar. Editions J. Cramer, p 667, Vaduz.
40. Laborde J, Guevara S, Sánchez-Ríos G (2008) Tree and shrub seed dispersal in pastures: the importance of rainforest trees outside forest fragments. Ecoscience 15:6-16. doi:10.2980/1195-6860(2008)15[6:TASSDI]2.0.CO;2.
41. Langrand O (1995) Guide des oiseaux de Madagascar. Delachaux et Niestlé, Paris.
42. Laumonier Y, Bourgeois R, Pfund J-L (2008) Accounting for the ecological dimension in participatory research and development: lessons learned from Indonesia and Madagascar. Ecol Soc 13:15.
43. LeCœur D, Baudry J, Burel F, Thenail C (2002) Why and how we should study field boundary biodiversity in an agrarian landscape context. Agric Ecosyst Environ 89:23-40. doi:10.1016/S0167-8809(01)00316-4.
44. Leigh EJ, Hladik A, Hladik CM, Jolly A (2007) The biogeography of large islands, or how does the size of the ecological theater affect the evolutionary play? Rev Ecol (Terre Vie) 62:105-168.
45. Luck G, Daily G (2003) Tropical countryside bird assemblages: richness, composition, and foraging differ by landscape context. Ecol Appl 13:235-247. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2003)013[0235:TCBARC]2.0.CO;2.
46. Lumsden LF, Bennett AF (2005) Scattered trees in rural landscapes: foraging habitat for insectivorous bats in south-eastern Australia. Biol Conserv 122:205-222. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2004.07.006.
47. MacNally R, Bennett AF, Horrocksa G (2000) Forecasting the impacts of habitat fragmentation. Evaluation of species-specific predictions of the impact of habitat fragmentation on birds in the box-ironbark forests of central Victoria, Australia. Biol Conserv 95:7-29. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3207(00)00017-3.
48. Manning AD, Fischer J, Lindenmayer DB (2006) Scattered trees are keystone structures-implications for conservation. Biol Conserv 132:311-321. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2006.04.023.
49. Margules CR, Pressey RL (2000) Systematic conservation planning. Nature 405:243-253. doi:10.1038/35012251.
50. McCullagh P, Nelder JA (1989) Generalized linear models, 2nd edn. Chapman & Hall, London.
51. Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (2003) Ecosystems and human well-being: a framework for assessment. Island Press, Washington Covelo London.
52. Norris K (2008) Agriculture and biodiversity conservation: opportunity knocks. Conserv Lett 1:2-11. doi:10.1111/j.1755-263X.2008.00007.x.
53. Papaik MJ, Sturtevant B, Messier C (2008) Crossing scales and disciplines to achieve forest sustainability. Ecol Soc 13:30.
54. Peters J (1998) Transforming the integrated conservation and development project (ICDP) approach: observations from the Ranomafana National Park project, Madagascar. J Agric Environ Ethics 11:17-47. doi:10.1023/A:1007796628731.
55. R Development Core Team (2007) R: A language and environment for statistical computing v2.8.0. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
56. Raherilalao MJ (2001) Effets de la fragmentation de la forêt sur les oiseaux autour du Parc National de Ranomafana (Madagascar). Rev Ecol (Terre Vie) 56:389-406.
57. Randriamalala JR, Serpantié G, Carrière SM (2007) Influence des pratiques culturales et du milieu sur la diversité des jachères d'origine forestière (Hautes-Terres, Madagascar). Rev Ecol (Terre Vie) 62:169-189.
58. Sankhala K (1993) Prospering from the desert. In: Kemf E (ed) Indigenous peoples and protected areas. Earthscan, London, pp 18-22.
59. Scherr SJ, McNeely JA (2008) Biodiversity conservation and agricultural sustainability: towards a new paradigm of 'ecoagriculture' landscapes. Philos T R Soc B 363:477-494. doi:10.1098/rstb.2007.2165.
60. Shanahan M, So S, Compton SG, Corlett R (2001) Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 76:529-572.
61. Sheil D, Puri RK, Basuki I Heist Mv, Wan M, Liswanti N, Rukmiyati, Sardjono MA, Samsoedin I, Sidiyasa K, Chrisandini, Permana E, Angi EM, Gatzweiler F, Johnson B, Wijaya A (2002) Exploring biological diversity, environment and local people's perspectives in forest landscapes: methods for a multidisciplinary landscape assessment. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Jakarta, Indonesia.
62. Steffan-Dewenter I, Kessler M, Barkmann J, Bos MM, Buchori D, Erasmi S, Faust H, Gerold G, Glenk K, Gradstein SR, Guhardja E, Harteveld M, Herteld Dietrich, Höhn P, Kappas M, Köhler S, Leuschner C, Maertens M, Marggraf R, Migge-Kleian S, Mogea J, Pitopan R, Schaefer M, Schwarze S, Sporn SG, Steingrebe A, Tjitrosoedirdjo SS, Tjitrosoemito S, Twele A, Weber R, Woltmann L, Zeller M, Tscharntke T (2007) Tradeoffs between income, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning during tropical rainforest conversion and agroforestry intensification. P Natl Acad Sci 104:4973-4978. doi:10.1073/pnas.0608409104.
63. Styger E, Rakotoarimanana JEM, Rabevohitra R, Fernandes ECM (1999) Indigenous fruit trees of Madagascar: potential components of agroforestry systems to improve human nutrition and restore biological diversity. Agrofor Syst 46:289-310. doi:10.1023/A:1006295530509.
64. Terborgh J, Robinson S, Parker TI, Munn C, Pierpont N (1990) Structure and organization of an Amazonian forest bird community. Ecol Monogr 60:213-238. doi:10.2307/1943045.
65. Terborgh J, Pitman N, Silman M, Schichter H, Núñez P (2002) Maintenance of tree diversity in tropical forests. In: Levey D, Silva W, Galetti M (eds) Seed dispersal and frugivory. CABI, Wallingford, Oxon, pp 1-17.
66. Thorstrom R, Rene de Roland L-A, Watson RT (2003) Falconiformes and strigiformes: ecology and status of raptors. In: Goodman SM, Benstead JP (eds) The natural history of Madagascar. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, pp 1080-1085.
67. van Dyck H, Baguette M (2005) Dispersal behaviour in fragmented landscapes: routine or special movements? Basic Appl Ecol 6:535-545. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2005.03.005.
68. Warren DM, Pinkston J (1998) Indigenous African resource management of a tropical rainforest ecosystem: a case study of the Yoruba of Ara, Nigeria. In: Berkes F, Folke C (eds) Linking social and ecological systems: management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 158-189.
69. Watson JEM, Whittaker RJ, Dawson TP (2004) Habitat structure and proximity to forest edge affect the abundance and distribution of forest-dependent birds in tropical coastal forests of southeastern Madagascar. Biol Conserv 120:311-327. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2004.03.004.
70. Wegner JF, Merriam G (1979) Movements of birds and small mammals between a wood and adjoining farmland habitats. J Appl Ecol 16:349-357.
71. Wunder S (2001) Poverty alleviation and tropical forest: what scope for synergies? World Dev 29:1817-1833. doi:10.1016/S0305-750X(01)00070-5.
72. Yarranton GA, Morrison RG (1974) Spatial dynamics of a primary succession: nucleation. J Ecol 62:417-428. doi:10.2307/2258988.