Bringing Birds Back to Regrowing Forests
By DAVID BIELLO - SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Added: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 20:58:39 UTC
Once fragmented forests are growing back together, do tropical birds follow? David Biello reports
The Amazon rainforest near Manaus in Brazil was almost completely cleared decades ago for cattle grazing. Fragments of the original forest remained, thanks to government policies that required some trees to be left standing. But these sections were too small to support various bird species.
A 25-year study of 11 of the fragments now finds that the birds can come back—if the pieces are reconnected. The research was published in Public Library of Science ONE.
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