I work as an environmental analyst and work with biodiversity conservation in 2 Brazilian National Parks located at the southern end of the Atlantic Forest Biome. In addition to native forests, these national parks conserve areas with southern Brazil grasslands. I need to define local bioindicators to monitor biodiversity conservation in areas with southern Brazil grasslands.
There are too many ways and indices that could be used for that matter, so finding good references that can give you some ideas is important. For birds check the following (a little old but excellent):
Article Assemblages of breeding birds as indicators of grassland condition
For Rodents:
Article The potential utility of rodents and other small mammals as ...
please check this information:
Article APPLICATION OF BIRDS AS ECOLOGICAL BIOINDICATORS FOR MONITOR...
Article Multiple species of cuckoos are superior predictors of bird ...
https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/
https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/90051/1/AcceptedVersion.pdf
http://biodiversos.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2012-BC-Carrascal-et-al.pdf
Birds and fish as bioindicators of tourist disturbance in springs ...
abc.museucienciesjournals.cat › ABC-30-1-pp-29-41
PDFAreas with the highest bird species richness and abundances showed highest ... all species, especially for the fish community, in order to conserve biodiversity in general. Key words: ... al., 2001), mammals (e.g. Lomolino et al., 1989) or fish (e.g. Heino et al., ... allochthonous woodland and other zones with native vegetation ...by J Palacio–Núñez - 2007
You can use the percentage of species that are native or endemic
Please check these links:
https://www.publish.csiro.au/wr/WR10223
https://irispublishers.com/wjass/pdf/WJASS.MS.ID.000539.pdf
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1470160X05000671
https://medcraveonline.com/IJAWB/paramount-roles-of-wild-birds-as-bioindicators-of-contamination.html
Article Bird Diversity and Structure in Different Land-use Types in ...
https://core.ac.uk/reader/62452830
Chapter Current Ornithology
Please, find the following examples:
1. http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/276
2. http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/250
3. http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/201
4. http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/178
5. (unfortunately, it is in Russian) http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/184
6. http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/173
7. (unfortunately, it is in Russian) http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/174
8. http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/175
9. http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/176
10. (partially) http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/150
11. (partially) http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/129
12. (partially) http://ncr-journal.bear-land.org/article/33
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