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No evidence for widespread bird declines in protected South American forests

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Acknowledgements

Funding for the research in Manaus was provided by the US National Science Foundation (LTREB-0545491). This is publication 574 of the BDFFP INPA/STRI Technical Series and 21 of the Amazonian Ornithology Technical Series of the INPA Collections Program. The manuscript was approved by the Director of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center as manuscript number 2011-241-6154.

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  1. School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Philip C Stouffer & Erik I. Johnson

  2. Projeto Dinâmica Biológica de Fragmentos Florestais, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, CP 478, Manaus, AM, 69060, Brazil

    Philip C Stouffer & Erik I. Johnson

  3. Center for Applied Conservation Research, Department of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

    Kristina L. Cockle

  4. Coordenação de Zoologia, MCT/Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Belém, Pará, Brazil

    Alexandre Aleixo

  5. CICyTTP-CONICET, Materi & España, Diamante, (3105), Entre Ríos, Argentina

    Juan I. Areta

  6. Plaza 2407 2*A, (1430), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Juan Mazar Barnett

  7. Proyecto Selva de Pino Paraná, San Pedro, Misiones, Argentina

    Alejandro Bodrati

  8. Departamento de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

    Carlos Daniel Cadena

  9. Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, FCEN-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellon II Ciudad Universitaria C1428EHA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Adrián S. Di Giacomo

  10. Asociación Armonía - BirdLife International, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia

    Sebastian K. Herzog

  11. Natural History Museum & Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 66044, USA

    Peter Hosner

  12. Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Luciano N. Naka & César Sánchez

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Stouffer, P.C., Cockle, K.L., Aleixo, A. et al. No evidence for widespread bird declines in protected South American forests. Climatic Change 108, 383–386 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-011-0162-1

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