Bird communities in homegardens at different distances from Afromontane forests in SW Ethiopia

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Hylander K, Engelen D, Lemessa D, Şekercioglu Ç H (2026). Bird communities in homegardens at different distances from Afromontane forests in SW Ethiopia. Version 1.1. No organisation. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.gbif.org/resource?r=birds_homegardens_gera&v=1.1

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GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f3542870-c3cb-452b-b254-343e81005ee3.  Stockholm University publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Samplingevent; homegarden; forest; coffee; distance; fragmentation

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Ethiopia

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

No Description available

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

These visits were equally divided between only mist netting, only point counts or conducting both methods simultaneously. Consequently, the data from each site are based on four mist netting days and four point-count days. Point counts at each site were separated by at least eight days and mist netting was done twice for two consecutive days, with at least a two-week gap. For mist netting, we used 14 2.5 m-high, 4-shelf nets (12 x 12 m nets and 2 x 9 m nets), for a total of 162 m at each site. The nets were opened every day from 06h00 to 12h00, but had to be occasionally closed during periods of rain, passing cattle, etc. (for a total of 10 h in close gardens, 2.5 h in far gardens and 0 h in forest). Nets were checked every half hour by two people working in opposite directions in order to limit the time spent around the nets. After the birds were extracted, they were identified using Redman et al. ( 2011 ) and banded with numbered metal rings.

Method step description:

1. see sampling description

Bibliographic Citations

1. Engelen, D., Lemessa, D., Şekercioglu, C. & Hylander, K. 2016. Similar bird communities in homegardens at different distances from Afromontane forests. Bird Conservation International 8:1-13 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270916000162

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