Presentation by Patricia Rodrigues on conservation of birds in Ethiopian coffee forest. Presented in September 2016 at the SCB Meeting in Morocco. Findings are preliminary.

1. Bird responses to management intensity in a shade-coffee
system, Southwestern Ethiopia
Patrícia Rodrigues, Girma Shumi, Ine Dorresteijn, Jan Hanspach, Kristoffer Hylander*, Feyera Senbeta**, Joern Fischer
El Jadida , Morocco September 2016
Identifying socio-ecological system properties that benefit both biodiversity conservation and food security
* Stockholm University ** Addis Ababa University

2. CONTEXT
Population
growth
Biodiversity
hotspots
Land use
changes
TROPICAL FORESTS

3. SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA
AFROMONTANE RAINFOREST HOTSPOT
Elevation: 1800-2800m
Highly biodiverse
Birthplace of Coffee arabica
Highlands of
Southwestern Ethiopia

4. SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA
COFFEE PRODUCTION
41% of the country´s foreign
currency income

5. SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA
HIGHLY MANAGED COFFEE FOREST
Clearing of understory

6. SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA
LOW MANAGEMENT COFFEE FOREST
Undisturbed understory until harvest season

7. SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA
MOIST EVERGREEN FOREST
Wild coffee

8. How do birds respond to coffee management intensity?
(Buechley et al. 2015; Gove et al. 2013, 2008)
Unmanaged Natural ForestsSemi-managed Coffee ForestIntensively managed Coffee F.
QUESTION
WHY BIRDS? Providers of ecosystem services (seed dispersal, pest control…)
(1) Community composition
(2) Total species richness and total abundance
(3) Abundance of functional groups
RESPONSES OF:

9. Addis Ababa
Jimma
STUDY REGION AND SAMPLING SCHEME
52% Farmland
48% Woody Veg.
Kebele
67 points, sampled twice,
Nov 2015 to Feb 2016
Number of individuals; species
Distance from observer (bands)
RECORD bird songs and calls
Info on vegetation on plot 20x20m
- plant species richness
- abundance of non-coffee species
- dbh of big trees
SAMPLING POINTS
10´ 06h00 – 10h00
Cost Distance
Close
Middle
Far
Interior
STRATIFICATION

10. Lovebirds*
White-eyes
COMMON SPECIES
ENDEMICS AND NEAR ENDEMICS
White-cheek Tauraco*
Camaroptera Robin-Chats
*Picture from IBC (Internet bird collection)
RESULTS
Ethiopian Boubou*
Common BulbulOriolus*
Abyssinian woodpecker*Yellow-fronted parrot*
TOTAL of 76 species and 1617 individuals

11. RESULTS: community composition
*Picture from IBC (Internet bird collection)
Camaroptera*Robin-Chats
Sharpe's Starling*African Hill Barbler* Abyssinian Ground-thrush*
High
Low
No coffee
Coffee Ratio
Paradise flycatcher*
Stress: 0.26

12. RESULTS: total richness and abundance
Coffee Ratio
0.05 *high
low
high
low
ns
ns
ns ns
ns

13. RESULTS: abundance of feeding guilds
0.03 *high
low
ns
ns Coffee Ratio

14. IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
Negative response : total species richness and abundance of insectivores
Unmanaged Natural ForestsSemi-managed Coffee ForestHighly managed Coffee F.
No response for remaining classes: Low management plots as buffers for natural forests?
SIMPLIFICATION OF HABITAT STRUCTURE

15. Acknowledgments
European Research Council for funding provided to Joern Fischer
Kebele and woreda offices for providing work permissions
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