scholarly journals Changes in forest bird abundance, community structure and composition following a hurricane in Sweden

Ecography ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (11) ◽  
pp. 1862-1873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathieu Chevalier ◽  
Åke Lindström ◽  
Tomas Pärt ◽  
Jonas Knape
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Bird Abundance ◽  
Forest Bird

Influence of traffic mortality on forest bird abundance

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1507-1529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Jack ◽  
Trina Rytwinski ◽  
Lenore Fahrig ◽  
Charles M. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Bird Abundance ◽  
Forest Bird ◽  
Traffic Mortality

scholarly journals Positive association between forest management, environmental change, and forest bird abundance

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst Detlef Schulze ◽  
Dylan Craven ◽  
Andrew M. Durso ◽  
Jiri Reif ◽  
Marcus Guderle ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Bird Abundance ◽  
Forest Bird

Patterns of breeding bird abundance in relation to logging in western Labrador

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
NPP Simon ◽  
F E Schwab ◽  
A W Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Forest Canopy ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Breeding Birds ◽  
Selective Logging ◽  
Breeding Bird ◽  
Bird Abundance ◽  
Wood Volume ◽  
Forest Bird ◽  
Clear Cutting ◽  
Forested Areas

We enumerated breeding birds by territorial mapping on harvested (scarified following burning and clear-cutting, clearcut following burning, and two intensities of selective logging, 39 and 71% residual forest canopy) and unharvested forests in western Labrador. Clear-cutting and postclearcut scarification substantially altered the suite of birds occupying forested areas. Logging that conserved 39% of the wood volume decreased some forest bird densities and increased some early successional bird densities in approximately equal proportions. Logging that conserved 71% of forest cover increased bird densities by increasing some early successional bird densities without reducing forest bird densities. Given the rarity of productive forests in western Labrador, <5% of the forest base, if they are logged, then at least 71% of the wood volume should be conserved.

scholarly journals Big Bird Plots: Benchmarking Neotropical Bird Communities to Address Questions in Ecology and Conservation in an Era of Rapid Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Douglas Robinson ◽  
Dan Errichetti ◽  
Henry S. Pollock ◽  
Ari Martinez ◽  
Philip C Stouffer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Community Dynamics ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Bird Communities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Bird Diversity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Large Network ◽  
Bird Abundance

Extensive networks of large plots have the potential to transform knowledge of avian community dynamics through time and across geographical space. In the Neotropics, the global hotspot of avian diversity, only six 100-ha plots, all located in lowland forests of Amazonia, the Guianan shield and Panama, have been inventoried sufficiently. We review the most important lessons learned about Neotropical forest bird communities from those big bird plots and explore opportunities for creating a more extensive network of additional plots to address questions in ecology and conservation, following the model of the existing ForestGEO network of tree plots. Scholarly impact of the big bird plot papers has been extensive, with the papers accumulating nearly 1,500 citations, particularly on topics of tropical ecology, avian conservation, and community organization. Comparisons of results from the plot surveys show no single methodological scheme works effectively for surveying abundances of all bird species at all sites; multiple approaches have been utilized and must be employed in the future. On the existing plots, abundance patterns varied substantially between the South American plots and the Central American one, suggesting different community structuring mechanisms are at work and that additional sampling across geographic space is needed. Total bird abundance in Panama, dominated by small insectivores, was double that of Amazonia and the Guianan plateau, which were dominated by large granivores and frugivores. The most common species in Panama were three times more abundant than those in Amazonia, whereas overall richness was 1.5 times greater in Amazonia. Despite these differences in community structure, other basic information, including uncertainty in population density estimates, has yet to be quantified. Results from existing plots may inform drivers of differences in community structure and create baselines for detection of long-term regional changes in bird abundances, but supplementation of the small number of plots is needed to increase generalizability of results and reveal the texture of geographic variation. We propose fruitful avenues of future research based on our current synthesis of the big bird plots. Collaborating with the large network of ForestGEO tree plots could be one approach to improve understanding of linkages between plant and bird diversity. Careful quantification of bird survey effort, recording of exact locations of survey routes or stations, and archiving detailed metadata will greatly enhance the value of benchmark data for future repeat surveys of the existing plots and initial surveys of newly established plots.

scholarly journals Salmon increase forest bird abundance and diversity

PLoS ONE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. e0210031 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene A. Wagner ◽  
John D. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Bird Abundance ◽  
Forest Bird ◽  
Abundance And Diversity
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