Caribbean Birds

Summary of Habitat distribution and Local Abundance Comparisons

Statistical comparisons designed to test the hypotheses that (1) island invaders have different habitat distributions on the mainland than non-invaders, (2) recently expanded Antillean endemics have different habitat distributions than contracting species, (3) that invading species from the mainland exhibit ecological release on colonizing the Lesser Antilles, and (4) that ecological distributions change with time, independently of phases of expansion and contraction, after colonization of the Lesser Antilles. Comparisons with less than (<) and greater than (>) symbols (in red) indicate significant differences assessed by ANOVA.