DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Sunbird Community Organization: Opportunities and Challeges for Conservation in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya

论文研究：太阳鸟社区组织：肯尼亚阿拉布科-索科克森林保护的机遇和挑战

• 批准号: 0309368
• 负责人: Joel Brown
• 金额: $ 1.2万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-06-15 至 2005-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0309368&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; Sunbird; Community; Organization

Amani Sunbird (Anthreptes pallidigaster), exists in two forests in the world. In Kenya, it resides in a 6,700 ha coastal Brachystegia woodland within Arabuko-Sokoke Forest. The forest is under demand for selective logging, eco-tourism, and small scale building pole and fuel wood collection. Will these activities compromise or, in the extreme, cause the extirpation of the Amani Sunbird? My project will answer this question. To accomplish these goals, I will use foraging theory and habitat selection theory to understand community organization among Amani Sunbird (Anthreptes pallidigaster), Plain-backed Sunbird (Anthreptes reichenowi yokanae), Collared Sunbird (Anthreptes collaris) and Olive Sunbird (Nectarinia olicacea). Specifically, I will census sunbirds and use direct observation to measure activity patterns of sunbirds in response to habitat type, competitors, predators, nectar and insect availability to determine the factors that promote species success and the factor that threatens it.. Together, these data will allow me to determine the habitat preferences of Amani Sunbirds, and how habitat modification and competition from other species affect these preferences. A longer-range goal of this approach will be to develop good indicators of current and future problems for a wide variety of bird species, and needs for intervention in this important and severely threatened forest. This project is being co-funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.

阿曼尼太阳鸟（Anthreptes pallidigaster），存在于世界上的两个森林中。在肯尼亚，它生活在阿拉布科-索科克森林内 6,700 公顷的沿海 Brachystegia 林地中。这片森林正面临着选择性伐木、生态旅游以及小规模建筑杆和薪柴收集的需求。这些活动是否会危害阿曼尼太阳鸟，或者在极端情况下会导致阿曼尼太阳鸟的灭绝？我的项目将回答这个问题。为了实现这些目标，我将使用觅食理论和栖息地选择理论来了解阿曼尼太阳鸟 (Anthreptes pallidigaster)、平背太阳鸟 (Anthreptes reichenowi yokanae)、领太阳鸟 (Anthreptes colonis) 和橄榄太阳鸟 (Nectarinia olilicacea) 之间的群落组织。具体来说，我将对太阳鸟进行普查，并使用直接观察来测量太阳鸟对栖息地类型、竞争对手、捕食者、花蜜和昆​​虫可用性的反应模式，以确定促进物种成功的因素和威胁它的因素。总之，这些数据将使我能够确定阿曼尼太阳鸟的栖息地偏好，以及栖息地的改变和来自其他物种的竞争如何影响这些偏好。这种方法的长期目标是为各种鸟类当前和未来的问题制定良好的指标，以及对这片重要且受到严重威胁的森林进行干预的需求。该项目由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。