caa a22 4500 467886032 CHVBK 20180406152734.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10021-006-0077-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10021-006-0077-2 Woinarski J. Department of Natural Resources Environment and the Arts, P. O. Box 496, 0831, Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia aut Predictors of Nomadism in Australian Birds: A Reanalysis of Allen and Saunders (2002) [Elektronische Daten] [J. Woinarski] In recent analysis of factors related to nomadism in birds of semi-arid southern Australia, Allen and Saunders concluded that nomadism was related particularly to proximity to natural breaks in an ordered sequence of body weights across species, with less important relationships with weight per se and diet. That analysis is flawed by incorrect dietary codings for more than half of the species considered. This paper corrects those errors and repeats the analysis. In contrast to the previous findings, nomadism is best predicted by diet, being by far most prevalent among nectarivorous birds and least prevalent among insectivores. Such a finding is consistent with previous studies of nomadism in Australian birds. The variable of proximity to a natural break in the weight distribution of species in this community, considered by Allen and Saunders to be closely associated with nomadism, is not significantly related to nomadism for six of the eight combinations of data considered, and it is far less important than diet for the two combinations in which it does have a weakly significant (P = 0.049, 0.034) relationship with nomadism. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 nomadism nationallicence birds nationallicence diet nationallicence body weight nationallicence Australia nationallicence Ecosystems Springer-Verlag; www.springer-ny.com 9/5(2006-08-01), 689-693 1432-9840 9:5<689 2006 9 10021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-006-0077-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-006-0077-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Woinarski J. Department of Natural Resources Environment and the Arts, P. O. Box 496, 0831, Palmerston, Northern Territory, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ecosystems Springer-Verlag; www.springer-ny.com 9/5(2006-08-01), 689-693 1432-9840 9:5<689 2006 9 10021 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer