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Floral resources and habitat affect the composition of hummingbirds at the local scale in tropical mountaintops

Overview of attention for article published in Brazilian Journal of Biology, March 2015
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Title
Floral resources and habitat affect the composition of hummingbirds at the local scale in tropical mountaintops
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, March 2015
DOI 10.1590/1519-6984.06913
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LC Rodrigues, M Rodrigues

Abstract

Hummingbird communities tend to respond to variation in resources, having a positive relationship between abundance and diversity of food resources and the abundance and/or diversity of hummingbirds. Here we examined the influence of floral resource availability, as well as seasonality and type of habitat on the composition of hummingbird species. The study was carried out in two habitats of eastern Brazilian mountaintops. A gradient representative of the structure of hummingbird community, based on species composition, was obtained by the ordination of samples using the method of non-metric multidimensional scaling. The composition of hummingbird species was influenced by the type of habitat and floral resource availability, but not by seasonality. Hummingbird communities differ between habitats mainly due to the relative abundance of hummingbird species. The variation in composition of hummingbird species with the variation in floral resource availability may be related to differences in feeding habits of hummingbirds. Hummingbird species with the longest bills visited higher proportions of ornithophilous species, while hummingbirds with shorter bills visited higher proportions of non-ornithophilous species. The results demonstrate that at local-scale the composition of hummingbird species is affected by the type of habitat and floral resources availability, but not by seasonality.

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Researcher 1 4%
Unknown 27 96%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Unknown 27 96%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 May 2015.
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#16,461,423
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Outputs from Brazilian Journal of Biology
#9
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#6
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