Abstract
The bird diversity is threatened and many studies have been focusing on preservation and conservation efforts. For example, Wildlife Protected Areas are created in order to protect this diversity, however, just few areas have been created, which increases the need of private initiatives to support the environment conservation challenge. The Quedas do Rio Bonito Ecological Park is a protected area located in south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Herein, we present the median richness when compared to others studies in southeastern Brazil, as well as richness estimative of the understory stratum, seasonal variations and similarities among areas. Therefore, this paper presents arguments to assist future conservation studies since the knowledge on community in different areas is primordial when comparing the environment conditions in Biological Conservation projects.
Highlights
The bird community of the south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, is well known
The Minas Gerais state has a total of 183 Wildlife Protected Areas, which represent 2.096.648 ha or 3.56% of the total territory (Camargos, 2001)
In Minas Gerais, the state and the federal government have created many (N=183) Wildlife Protected Areas aiming at protecting the fauna, especially bird communities
Summary
The bird community of the south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, is well known. In the past years, a great number of studies regarding the topic have been conducted, for example, focusing on lists of species (Ribon, 2000; Vasconcelos, 2008; Moura et al, 2010a), green urban areas and small forest fragments (Corrêa & Moura, 2009; Braga et al, 2010; Moura et al, 2010b; Bird community from the Quedas do Rio Bonito Ecological Park .7Moura et al, 2015), new or notable records (Corrêa & Moura, 2010; Mazoni & Perillo, 2011; Moura & Corrêa, 2011a; Moura & Corrêa, 2011b; Lombardi et al, 2012; Moura & Corrêa, 2012; Moura et al, 2014), bird-plant interaction (Moura & Soares-Júnior, 2010; Moura, 2014), predation (Santos, 2012), leucism (Moura et al, 2010c), and feeding guilds (D’Angelo Neto et al, 1998; Corrêa et al, 2012).In order to protect the flora and faunal diversity, Wildlife Protected Areas were created in Brazil (Unidades de Conservação – SNUC, 2000). The bird community of the south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, is well known.
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