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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Laurie Davies
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<H1>The Daily Barometer: Researchers Study Effects Of Forest Fragmentation On
Hummingbird Behavior</H1>
<DIV class=date>The Daily Barometer | Nov. 06, 2013 2:36 a.m. | Updated: Nov.
06, 2013 10:55 a.m. </DIV>
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<DIV>Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Hummingbirds flitting through the fragmented forests of Costa Rica have
caught the attention of Oregon State University researchers.</DIV>
<DIV>Matthew Betts and Adam Hadley of the Betts Laboratory and the College of
Forestry are both landscape ecologists whose research has primarily revolved
around birds.</DIV>
<DIV>Betts and Hadley investigate the effects of habitat loss and
fragmentation of species across 37 distinct isolated patches of forest in
Costa Rica, seeking an understanding of how forest fragmentation affects
pollination services.</DIV>
<DIV>Hummingbirds take on the role of “the pollinator,” wherein there exists a
careful plant and pollinator interaction. The major goal of the group’s
research is to examine how landscape changes are affecting the hummingbirds
as pollinators.</DIV>
<DIV>The research involves a translocation study to see what the difference
was between hummingbird’s journey across forests that were either fragmented
or not.</DIV>
<DIV>“Interestingly, we discovered that the hummingbirds arrived at their
pollination sites in the exact same amount of time, which is kind of amazing,”
said Sarah Frey-Hadley, a doctoral researcher and logistical coordinator of
the hummingbird research within the Betts lab.</DIV>
<DIV>The research team found that when the hummingbirds were traveling within
the fragmented forests, the birds elected to take a considerably squigglier
route to arrive at their final destination in order to avoid crossing large
open gaps of forest patches.</DIV>
<DIV>“It shows that forest fragmentation does indeed alter the hummingbirds’
movement patterns,” Frey-Hadley said.</DIV>
<DIV>The Betts team also will collect the stiles (female part of the plant) of
the heliconia flower, a bright red inflorescence that the hummingbird is
highly attracted to for its beauty, nectar and shape.</DIV>
<DIV>Hadley discovered that overall seed sets (the number of seeds produced by
flowers) were lower in the smaller, more fragmented forest patches than in
non-fragmented patches.</DIV>
<DIV>The data implies that there’s some limitation occurring.</DIV>
<DIV>Hadley hypothesized that it’s potentially the quality of the pollen
that’s being brought to the smaller forest patches by the hummingbirds, and
perhaps the hummingbirds may not be visiting as many plants, fostering
less-diverse pollen for the flowers — due to the fact that the hummingbirds do
not want to cross the largely exposed patches of forest.</DIV>
<DIV>Partnering with the Organization for Tropical Studies and Las Cruzas
Biological Station in Costa Rica, Hadley began carrying out field research on
the hummingbird project with the Betts Lab in 2008 at the start of
his Ph.D.</DIV>
<DIV>At that time, the group proved to be successful pioneers in placing the
very first VHF radio transmitters on the hummingbirds to monitor their
pollination routes in Costa Rica.</DIV>
<DIV>“No one even knew it worked at the time,” Hadley said. “We needed a large
pollinator for the size of the transmitter. We couldn’t just place a
transmitter on a tiny little bee … and from this collected data, we could then
investigate a lot of the pollination concerns, which relates to systems here,
like the pollination activity of bumblebees.”</DIV>
<DIV>Data from the radio transmitters has provided the group with the ability
to track the actual movements of the hummingbirds, whereas with most
pollinators, until recently, researchers had not been able to track
movement patterns.</DIV>
<DIV>“The information we’ve collected informs on a lot of the processes, which
are important over larger areas, like the forest and agricultural systems we
have here, locally,” Hadley said.</DIV>
<DIV>In addition to radio transmitters, Betts research team member Evan
Jackson, a doctoral candidate, has recently implemented the use of RFID tags
or “PIT” tags on the hummingbirds.</DIV>
<DIV>The tags are about the size of a grain of rice. It’s the same technology
that people use with pet microchips. Jackson investigates what kind of
habitats the hummingbirds will or won’t use.</DIV>
<DIV>The Betts research team facilitates an educational outreach project with
11 local Corvallis schools.</DIV>
<DIV>“The conservation of natural habitats is important to be made aware
(of),” Hadley said. “When habitats are altered or disturbed, we see the affect
it has on the hummingbirds, but also on the plants that they are responsible
for pollinating.”</DIV>
<DIV>Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova</DIV>
<DIV>Science reporter</DIV>
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