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The fact that habitat-specialist birds tend to live at the northern portion of Godoy State Park, which has the first type of terrain in a landscape to be converted into agriculture, indicate that that region has special importance for conservation.

Therefore, we found a weak relationship between spatial distribution (habitat specialization) and sensitivity to forest fragmentation. We only found significant correlation with the group of the subcanopy suboscines at the northern portion of Parque Estadual Mata dos Godoy. There was no association between levels of sensitivity to forest fragmentation and spatial distribution of suboscines. Forty three species of suboscines were recorded, of which 21 species were considered to have high sensitivity and 22 to have low sensitivity to forest fragmentation. This reserve has high Biotic Integrity levels, with a relatively high number of recorded suboscines. Field data was obtained in the Parque Estadual Mata dos Godoy (23в‚7вЂІ S, 51вЃ5вЂІ W), southern Brazilian Atlantic forest. We concentrated on analyses of the suboscine birds, which are known to be closely associated to microhabitats. We hypothesized that a homogenous spatial distribution is associated to habitat-generalist species, which would tend to be less sensitive to forest fragmentation in contrast, a heterogeneous spatial distribution would drive to an increase of sensitivity to forest fragmentation. In this study we investigated the relationship between the sensitivity to forest fragmentation of bird species and their habitat spatial distribution.

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