Gabriela Menezes Bochio

TL;DR: The ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS (ABT) is the most comprehensive data set on measurements of bird morphological traits found in a biodiversity hotspot; it provides data for basic and applied research at multiple scales, from individual to community, and from the local to the macroecological perspectives.

TL;DR: It is suggested that considering subsets of the community with high similarity among species, as passerines, provides a better tool for understanding responses to forest fragmentation due to the regularity of specialists in continuous forest, which could highly affect functionality in forest fragments.

TL;DR: This study assigned levels of forest type specialization to birds based on their occurrence and local abundance in three basic types of Atlantic rainforest in southern Brazil based on a major clade of the suboscine Passeriformes, the majority of which are understory insectivorous species.

TL;DR: The largest and morepreserved forest fragments had the highest IBI value (0.85) as mentioned in this paper, while the smallest and isolated and disturbed forest fragments were the least IBI values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a new, easy-to-follow, integrated Index of Biotic Integrity (IBIint) which combines plants and birds to assess ecological integrity of tropical forest fragments.