Scales of habitat selection by foraging elepaio in undisturbed and human-altered forests in Hawaii

Author:

VanderWerf, Eric A.

Title:

Scales of habitat selection by foraging elepaio in undisturbed and human-altered forests in Hawaii

Periodical:

Condor

Year:

1993

Volume:

95

Pages:

980-989

Subject:

Chasiempis sandwichensis Elepaio Habitat selection Foraging ecology

Summary:

This study was conducted from April through July, 1991 at the Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge that lies at the 1900 meter elevation on the windward slope of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. During this study, the author devised a method of measuring habitat parameters that individual birds might use when selecting foraging sites at three hierarchically-nested scales. This method was used in an effort to examine patterns of foraging site selection by an endemic, insectivorous Hawaiian bird called the Elepaio (Chasiempis sandwichensis). This was done in two forest types that differed in degree of human disturbance -- relatively undisturbed and disturbed or human altered. By comparing selection of habitat parameters at several scales, (fine, intermediate, and broad), and in these two types of areas, the author hope to learn what aspects of habitat structure are important to the Elepaio and whether this bird might somehow be restricted in their use of disturbed habitat.

Label:

Birds - Elepaio

URL:

https://sora.unm.edu/node/104791

Date:

1993

Collection:

Periodicals