Mountain pine beetle presence affects nest patch choice of red-breasted nuthatches

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 733-737

  Norris, Andrea R ^a   Martin, Kathy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Cavity nesters; Forest insect outbreaks; Nest patch selection; Red breasted nuthatch; Resource pulses; Resource selection; Sitta canadensis

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT; NEST; PATCH USE; POPULATION OUTBREAK; RESOURCE SELECTION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SITTA CANADENSIS; SITTIDAE;

EID: 42149146124     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-409     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aitken, K. E. H., K. L. Wiebe, and K. Martin. 2002. Nest-site reuse patterns for a cavity-nesting bird community in interior British Columbia. Auk 119:391-402.
2. Allen, E. A., D. J. Morrison, and G. W. Wallis. 1996. Common tree diseases of British Columbia. Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
3. Anderson, S. H. 1976. Comparative food habits of Oregon nuthatches. Northwest Science 50:213-221.
4. Breslow, N. E., and D. G. Clayton. 1993. Approximate inference in generalized linear mixed models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 88:9-25.
5. Brown, C. R., and M. B. Brown. 1987. Group-living in cliff swallows as an advantage in avoiding predators. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 21:97-108.
6. Bunnell, F. L., M. Boyland, and E. Wind. 2002. How should we spatially distribute dying and dead wood? Pages 739-752 in W. F. Laudenslayer, Jr., P. J. Shea, B. E. Valentine, C. P. Weatherspoon, and T. E. Lisle, technical coordinators. Proceedings of the symposium on the ecology and management of dead wood in western forests. U.S. Forest Service General Technical Report PSW-GTR-181, Albany, California, USA.
7. Callan, B. E. 1998. Diseases of Populus in British Columbia: a diagnostic manual. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
8. Conner, E. F., J. M. Yoder, and J. A. May. 1999. Density-related predation by the Carolina chickadee, Poecile carolinensis, on the leaf-mining moth, Cameraria hamadryadella at three spatial scales. Oikos 87:105-112.
9. Crawford, H. S., and D. T. Jennings. 1989. Predation by birds on spruce budworm Choristoneura fumiferana: functional, numerical, and total responses. Ecology 70:152-163.
10. Crawford, H. S., D. T. Jennings, and T. L. Stone. 1990. Red-breasted nuthatches detect early increases in spruce budworm populations. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 7:81-83.
11. Eeva, T., E. Lehikoinen, and S. Veistola. 1989. Habitat preference and breeding performance in four hole-nesting passerines at the northern limit of their range. Omis Fennica 66:142-150.
12. Ghalambor, C K., and T. E. Martin. 1999. Red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta canadensis). Account 459 in A. Poole and F. Gill, editors. The birds of North America. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C., USA.
13. Li, P., and T. E. Martin. 1991. Nest-site selection and nesting success of cavity-nesting birds in high elevation forest drainages. Auk 108:405-418.
14. Martin, K., K. E. H. Aitken, and K. Wiebe. 2004. Nest sites and nest webs for cavity-nesting communities in interior British Columbia, Canada: nest characteristics and niche partitioning. Condor 106:5-19.
15. Martin, K., and J. Eadie. 1999. Nest webs: a community-wide approach to the management and conservation of cavity-nesting forest birds. Forest Ecology and Management 115:243-257.
16. Martin, K., and A. R. Norris. 2007. Life in the small-bodied cavity nester guild: demography of sympatric mountain and black-capped chickadees within nest web communities under changing habitat conditions. Pages 111-130 in K. Otter, editor. Ecology and behavior of chickadees and titmice: an integrated approach. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
17. Martin, K., A. Norris, and M. Drever. 2006. Beedes in the nest web: impacts of bark beede populations on wildlife communities in interior British Columbia forests - 11 years of wildlife-habitat data. British Columbia Journal of Ecosystem Management 7:10-24.
18. Morris, R. F., W. F. Cheshire, C. A. Miller, and D. G. Mott. 1958. The numerical response of avian and mammalian predators during a gradation of the spruce budworm. Ecology 39:487-494.
19. Norris, A. R. 2007. The responses of two cavity-nesting species to changes in habitat conditions and nest web community dynamics in Interior British Columbia. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
20. Pinheiro, J. C., and D. M. Bates. 2000. Mixed-effects models in S and S-PLUS. Statistics and Computing Series, Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, USA.
21. R Development Core Team. 2006. R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
22. Soler, M., and J. J. Soler. 1996. Effects of experimental food provisioning on reproduction in the jackdaw, Corvus monedula, a semi-colonial species. Ibis 138:377-383.
23. Stauss, M. J., J. F. Burkhardt, and J. Tomiuk. 2005. Foraging flight distances as a measure of parental effort in blue tits Parus caeruleus differ with environmental conditions. Journal of Avian Biology 36:47-56.
24. Steeger, C., and C. L. Hitchcock. 1998. Influence of forest structure and diseases on nesting habitat selection by red-breasted nuthatches. Journal of Wildlife Management 62:1349-1358.
25. Stone, W. E. 1995. The impact of a mountain pine beede epidemic on wildlife habitat and communities in post-epidemic stands of lodgepole pine forests in northern Utah. Thesis, Utah State University, Logan, USA.
26. Thomas, J. W., R. G. Anderson, C. Masser, and E. L. Bull. 1979. Snags: wildlife habitats in managed forests, the Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington. U.S. Forest Service Agriculture Handbook 553, Washington, D.C., USA.