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To compile and synthesize two centuries of avian morphological trait records across the South American Atlantic Forest to facilitate multi-scale ecological and evolutionary research.

March 8, 2019Socio-Environmental Systems ModelingOpen Access

ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS : a data set of bird morphological traits from the Atlantic forests of South America

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RRRodolpho Credo RodriguesInstituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade RRRodolpho Credo RodriguesInstituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade ÉHÉrica HasuiUniversidade Federal de Alfenas

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Database compilation reveals extensive morphological trait variation across South American forest birds, highlighting resources for macroecological and evolutionary research.

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To compile and synthesize two centuries of avian morphological trait records across the South American Atlantic Forest to facilitate multi-scale ecological and evolutionary research.
Compiled 67,197 individual bird records across 2,790 populations from historical and contemporary field records spanning 1820 to 2018.
Documented up to 44 distinct morphological, demographic, and phenological traits for 711 bird species, covering 80% of known Atlantic Forest bird diversity.
Most frequently documented traits include sex (n = 65,717), age (n = 63,852), body mass (n = 58,768), flight molt presence (n = 44,941), tail length (n = 43,005), and bill length (n = 37,409).
Most represented species by record count were Chiroxiphia caudata (n = 1,837) and Turdus albicollis (n = 1,658), with Basileuterus culicivorus sampled across the highest number of distinct localities (n = 243).

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Rodrigues et al. (2019) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aaf93cc0dbc67c5c410f80d https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2647

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Database compilation reveals extensive morphological trait variation across South American forest birds, highlighting resources for macroecological and evolutionary research.

ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS : a data set of bird morphological traits from the Atlantic forests of South America

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ATLANTIC BIRD TRAITS : a data set of bird morphological traits from the Atlantic forests of South America

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