Flight Initiation Distance And Tolerance To Human Disturbance
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 13:50
in Biology & Nature
The term "bioindicators" is often used to describe species that can be used to infer environmental changes. Birds are commonly used in this capacity because they demonstrate a number of variations that can be easily measured, including abundance and density patterns, physiological or morphological characteristics, and behaviors. One behavior that is frequently quantified in order to evaluate the effects of anthropogenic habitats is "flight initiation distance" (FID), or the distance at which a bird will take flight when approached by a human. read more