TY - JOUR
AU - Villard, Marc-Andre
AB - Special Feature Continental Scale Ecology and Neotropical Migratory Birds: How to Detect Declines amid the Noise' In popularizing concern over environmental degradation, ecologists and environmentalists have warned of "skies with no birds." Indeed, entire symposia have been organized on the premise of massive declines in Neotropical migratory birds (Finch and Stangel 1992, Hagan and Johnston 1992). But as the supposed declines have been examined in more detail, the picture doesn't seem nearly as clear as it should be. Why? Because the problem of documenting and explaining declines is much larger than we originally expected. Indeed, the problem faced by avian ecologists in studying Neotropical migrants is the same one faced by the entire field of ecology in trying to understand global change. And that problem is this: How can we understand ecological change when our data are local and sketchy, our paradigms simplistic, at continental and global scales and our funding inadequate? In an attempt to face this dilemma for the problem of Neotropical migratory bird population dynamics, we assembled a diverse set of avian ecologists whose research spans a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Although each contributor used different techniques to obtain and analyze their data, each 
TI - Special Feature: Continental Scale Ecology and Neotropical Migratory Birds: How to Detect Declines Amid the Noise
JF - Ecology
DO - 10.2307/2265648
DA - 1996-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/special-feature-continental-scale-ecology-and-neotropical-migratory-Z0NLB10tK2
SP - 1
EP - 2
VL - 77
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -