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Our multi-taxon survey of sites across the municipality of Paragominas in 2010-2011(Moura et al. 2014) regularly recorded this species in varyingly-degraded primary-forests and in varying-aged secondary forests. It was never recorded from non-forest habitats (e.g. pasture, mechanised agriculture, smallholder agriculture, plantations). The species was recorded from 33% of burned primary forests transects (1 of 3 sites), in 45% (22 of 45) of logged primary forests (those subject to historical selective logging which is very predatory in this region) in 15% (15 of 45) of logged and burned primary forests, in 18% of secondary forests (4 of 22) and in 0% of undisturbed forest sites (n= 9). In a different study (Lees et al. 2015) of avian usage of different Amazonian habitats in neighbouring municipalities we found Conopophaga roberti in 33% (5 of 15) of primary forest transects (all varyingly-degraded) and 20% of secondary forests (1 of 5). These data suggest the species does well in lightly disturbed primary forest sites which characterise most of the species’ Amazonian range and like many other Conopophagas it is likely a gap specialist in primary forest landscapes. However the species appears only to use older secondary forests from about 20 years of age.
Lees, A.C., Moura, N.G., De Almeida, A.S. and Vieira, I.C., 2015. Poor prospects for avian biodiversity in Amazonian oil palm. PloS one, 10(5), p.e0122432.
Moura, N.G., Lees, A.C., Andretti, C.B., Davis, B.J., Solar, R.R., Aleixo, A., Barlow, J., Ferreira, J. and Gardner, T.A., 2013. Avian biodiversity in multiple-use landscapes of the Brazilian Amazon. Biological Conservation, 167, pp.339-348.
Our multi-taxon survey of sites across the municipality of Paragominas in 2010-2011(Moura et al. 2014) regularly recorded this species in varyingly-degraded primary-forests and in varying-aged secondary forests. It was never recorded from non-forest habitats (e.g. pasture, mechanised agriculture, smallholder agriculture, plantations). The species was recorded from 33% of burned primary forests transects (1 of 3 sites), in 45% (22 of 45) of logged primary forests (those subject to historical selective logging which is very predatory in this region) in 15% (15 of 45) of logged and burned primary forests, in 18% of secondary forests (4 of 22) and in 0% of undisturbed forest sites (n= 9). In a different study (Lees et al. 2015) of avian usage of different Amazonian habitats in neighbouring municipalities we found Conopophaga roberti in 33% (5 of 15) of primary forest transects (all varyingly-degraded) and 20% of secondary forests (1 of 5). These data suggest the species does well in lightly disturbed primary forest sites which characterise most of the species’ Amazonian range and like many other Conopophagas it is likely a gap specialist in primary forest landscapes. However the species appears only to use older secondary forests from about 20 years of age.
Lees, A.C., Moura, N.G., De Almeida, A.S. and Vieira, I.C., 2015. Poor prospects for avian biodiversity in Amazonian oil palm. PloS one, 10(5), p.e0122432.
Moura, N.G., Lees, A.C., Andretti, C.B., Davis, B.J., Solar, R.R., Aleixo, A., Barlow, J., Ferreira, J. and Gardner, T.A., 2013. Avian biodiversity in multiple-use landscapes of the Brazilian Amazon. Biological Conservation, 167, pp.339-348.