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Nonbreeding Bird Communities Along an Urban–Rural Gradient of a Tropical City in Central Myanmar
Urbanization is known to be a major driver in abundance and species richness of birds. However, how birds respond to
urbanization in tropical cities is understudied in general and entirely absent from Myanmar. We conducted a study in and
around Mandalay, a large city in central Myanmar to gather first data on birds and their response to urbanization.We selected
four habitats with 10 sampling points each in November 2015. We made 1,536 observations of 68 bird species. The number
of species and diversity significantly differed between the four localities. Mandalay Hill and Downtown Mandalay had the
lowest number of species and diversity, whereas the University Campus and Paddy Fields had the highest. The highest
number of observations was in Downtown Mandalay (1,003 counts) and the lowest on Mandalay Hill (103). Nonmetric
multidimensional scaling ordination techniques showed that the four habitat types had significantly different bird species
composition. Our results indicate a large effect of urbanization on species diversity, species richness, and species composition
of birds
Additional file 1: of Mobility dynamics of migrant workers and their socio-behavioral parameters related to malaria in Tier II, Artemisinin Resistance Containment Zone, Myanmar
KAP of malaria among migrants working in malaria prone locations. (PDF 195 kb