Dataset of Passerine bird communities in a Mediterranean high mountain (Sierra Nevada, Spain)

By

Pérez-Luque, Antonio Jesús
Barea-Azcón, José Miguel
Álvarez-Ruiz, Lola
Bonet-García, Francisco Javier.
Zamora Rodriguez, Regino

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2016

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

552

Pages

137-154

Subjects

abundance , global-change monitoring , Mediterranean high mountain , passerines , Sierra Nevada (Spain) , species composition

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.552.6934

 

Abstract

In this data paper, a dataset of passerine bird communities is described in Sierra Nevada, a Mediterranean high mountain located in southern Spain. The dataset includes occurrence data from bird surveys conducted in four representative ecosystem types of Sierra Nevada from 2008 to 2015. For each visit, bird species numbers as well as distance to the transect line were recorded. A total of 27847 occurrence records were compiled with accompanying measurements on distance to the transect and animal counts. All records are of species in the order Passeriformes. Records of 16 different families and 44 genera were collected. Some of the taxa in the dataset are included in the European Red List. This dataset belongs to the Sierra Nevada Global-Change Observatory (OBSNEV), a long-term research project designed to compile socio-ecological information on the major ecosystem types in order to identify the impacts of global change in this area.