2 resultados para estimating equations
em Repositório Científico da Universidade de Évora - Portugal
Resumo:
Collision with vehicles is an important source of bird mortality, but it is uncertain why some species are killed more often than others. Focusing on passerines,we testedwhether mortality is associated with bird abundances, and with traits reflecting flight manoeuvrability, habitat, diet, and foraging and social behaviours. We also tested whether the species most vulnerable to road-killing were scarcer near (b500 m) or far (N500–5000 m) from roads. During the breeding seasons of 2009–2011,we surveyed roadkills daily along 50 km of roads, and estimated bird abundances from 74 point counts. After correcting for phylogenetic relatedness, there was strong correlation between roadkill numbers and the abundances of 28 species counted near roads. However, selectivity indices indicated that Blue tit (Parus caeruleus), Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) and European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) were significantly more road-killed than expected from their abundances, while the inverse was found for seven species. Using phylogenetic generalised estimating equations, we found that selectivity indexes were strongly related to foraging behaviour and habitat type, and weakly so to body size, wing load, diet and social behaviour. The most vulnerable passerines were foliage/bark and swoop foragers, inhabiting woodlands, with small body size and low wing load. The species most vulnerable to road collisions were not scarcer close to roads. Overall, our study suggests that traits provide a basis to identify the passerine species most vulnerable to road collisions, which may be priority targets for future research on the population-level effects of roadkills.
Resumo:
A Ilha de Santiago, situada no Arquipélago de Cabo Verde, é dominada por um clima seco e árido, interrompido por curtos períodos de chuvas torrenciais, com grande capacidade de transporte de sedimentos ao longo de vales profundos e encaixados, tributários da Ribeira Seca, onde se situa a Barragem do Poilão, construída em 2006. Os resultados de um levantamento batimétrico da albufeira da barragem realizado em Março de 2013, apontam para uma taxa de sedimentação anual próxima de 90 000 m3 /ano, fazendo com que, em apenas 7, anos a capacidade de armazenamento da albufeira tenha diminuído quase para metade. Os valores determinados neste estudo recomendam a tomada de medidas urgentes por parte do governo de Cabo Verde, no sentido da dragagem e desassoreamento da albufeira do Poilão.