Breeding Bird Assemblages in Relation to Changing Forest Composition in North-Eastern Algeria: Zonation or Continuum?
Breeding Bird Assemblages in Relation to Changing Forest Composition in North-Eastern Algeria: Zonation or Continuum?
Ahmed Guerfi1, Mohcen Menaa2*, Kaouther Guellati2, Lamia Boutabia1,
Salah Telailia1, Moussa Houhamdi3, Rafik Boukhris1 and Mohamed Cherif Maazi2
Fig. 1.
Geographic location of the study area.
Fig. 2.
The relative abundance (A), species richness (B), and species diversity (C) of forest birds in vork oak woodlands (Cork); oak mixed forests (Mixed); zeen oak woodlands (Zeen).
Fig. 3.
Shepard plot for nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) results. Dashed line signifies a perfect linear relationship between calculated and ordination distances.
Fig. 4.
Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis ordination biplot based on Bray-Curtis coefficient of similarities between avian assemblages and forest types (stress=0.1747).
