Birds see the trees inside the forest: The potential impacts of changes in forest composition on songbirds during spring migration

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 280, Issue , 2012, Pages 176-186

  Wood, Eric M ^a   Pidgeon, Anna M ^a   Liu, Feng ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian foraging; Food accessibility; Migratory songbird; Spring migration; Stopover; Tree species composition

Indexed keywords

ACER RUBRUM; ACER SACCHARUM; AVIAN FORAGING; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; CONTINUOUS LAYERS; FIRE SUPPRESSION; FORAGING BEHAVIORS; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; FOREST SUCCESSION; MIGRATORY SONGBIRDS; P-VALUES; PAPER BIRCH; POPULUS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PUBLIC LANDS; QUERCUS; QUERCUS RUBRA; RED MAPLES; RED OAK; STOPOVER; STOPOVER SITES; SUGAR MAPLE; SUGAR MAPLE SAPLINGS; SURVEY SYSTEMS; TIME-PERIODS; TREE SPECIES; WHITE OAK; WISCONSIN;

BIRDS; LAND USE; SUGARS;

FORESTRY;

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS TREE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; MIGRATION; MIGRATORY POPULATION; SAPLING; SHADE TOLERANCE; SONGBIRD; SPRING (SEASON); STOPOVER;

BIRDS; FOOD; FORESTRY; LAND USE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SUGARS; TREES;

MIDWEST; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER RUBRUM; ACER SACCHARUM; AVES; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; MALVACEAE; PASSERI; POPULUS GRANDIDENTATA; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA; TILIA; TILIA AMERICANA; ULMUS; ULMUS AMERICANA; ULMUS RUBRA;

EID: 84863689605     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.05.041     Document Type: Article

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