Species’ traits affect the occurrence of birds in a native timber plantation landscape

摘要: Many of the world's terrestrial environments are dominated by production land-uses, making incorporation landscapes into conservation strategies critical for halting global biodiversity declines. Two challenges developing such are: (1) determining species’ capacity to survive in land-uses; and (2) understanding why some species can survive, while others cannot. The interaction between biological traits organisms their response disturbances may assist resolving these challenges. We compared trait composition 41 lowland rainforest birds among unlogged forestry land-uses on New Britain Island, Papua Guinea. At least 92% forest occurred mature, native Eucalyptus plantation regrown logged forest. However, changes demonstrated successive loss (medium- large-bodied frugivores, specialists) with increasing intensity disturbance, indicating that management practices affect functional birds. In contrast many continental studies where endemism confers susceptibility we found endemic island widely distributed across all reflecting colonizing new environments. Ecological help explain responses landscape management, however, type disturbance biogeography region traits–disturbance interaction. Our study indicates plantations be able providing values, but only if they judiciously managed concert reserves.