An Analysis of Bird Populations in Relation to Forest Succession in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario

Martin, N. D.

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“…It is apparent, however, that at both spatial scales in the present study (site and station), the major axes of variation in bird community structure are quite similar. Elsewhere in the northern Ontario boreal forest magnolia warbler breeding habitat is similar, consisting of black spruce/balsam fir forest (Martin 1960, Speirs 1969. We have shown elsewhere that the FEC axis 2 is also strongly associated with bird species diversity and richness, both measures increasing from black spruce through to broad-leaved stands (left to right on axis 2 in Fig.…”

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“…The boreal forest, the largest forested region of Canada, extending continuously from the Labrador coast westward to the Rocky Mountains and northwest into Alaska (Rowe 1972), has received little attention. Algonquin Park in Southern Ontario - Martin (1960), Maine -MacArthur (1958), and Minnesota - Collins et al (1982)], although there are a few notable exceptions (Erskine 1977). Michigan - Kendeigh (1948).…”

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Relationships of bird community structure and species distributions to two environmental gradients in the northern boreal forest

Welsh¹,

Lougheed

1996

Ecography

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1996. Relationships of bird community Structure and species distributions to two environmental gradients in the northern boreal forest. -Ecogriphy 19: 194-208.Few studies have explicitly examined avian community structure in the North Americin northern boreal forest. Herein we report upon the results of bird surveys in mature stands of boreal forest in the Great Clay Belt, Ontario. Canada. We related trends in avian community structure and individual bird species' abundance to two environmentiil gradients described in a landbase classification scheme called the Forest Ecosystem Classificationa moisture and a nutrient-richness gradient.Variation in environmental characteristics is limited in the Ontario Clay Belt and this wils reflected in short environmental gradient lengths. However, major trends in avian community structure were strongly associated with the nutrient-richness gradient axis summarized by this scheme. Analyses of avian community composition indicated a continuum from moist, coniferous habitats to drier aspendominated mixed woodlands with several bird species occurring in varying abundances across the width of both gradients. 48 of the 58 species examined showed statistically significiant associations with at Irit one of the two multivariate gradient axes. A smaller proportion of shortdistance migrant species were associated with these gradients than were species in either the neotropial migrant or resident categories. We used a multivariate variable ("habitat breadth") to compare degree of habitat spefiiliwtion across diHerent migratory groups. A large proportion of neotropical migrants showed a hlgh degree of habitat specialization in mature Clay Belt forests. and neotropial species with small habitat breadths were more commonly a+xiited with habitats dominated by broad-leaved deciduous tree species than either shortdistance or permanent resident species. We discuss our findings in relation to the post-glacial history of the Clay Belt region.

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Relationships of bird community structure and species distributions to two environmental gradients in the northern boreal forest

Welsh¹,

Lougheed

1996

Ecography

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“…'lubstantially the smallest in the isolated cattail clumps, larger in the peripheral strips, and largest in the main marsh (Table 7). That this is also the ease with the Redwing is suggested by change in territory size in response to stage of vegetative succession (Martin 1960) and by the response to burning of the marshes. In 1959, territories averaged larger than at the East Park Reservoir; but in 1960, they were comparable to territories at the periphery of the main marsh at the reservoir ( the Haskell Ranch.…”

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The Ecology of Blackbird (Agelaius) Social Systems

Orians¹

1961

Ecological Monographs

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“…The spatial scale of predation risk can also determine the optimal 308 distance for birds to move when re-nesting after nest predation (Powell and Frasch 2000). The 309 effective ranges of mouse activity we observed were often similar to or greater than territory size 310 in veeries (Martin 1960), suggesting that territory abandonment may be necessary for breeding 311 dispersal to be an effective response to predation by white-footed mice. 312…”

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Quantifying a dynamic risk landscape: heterogeneous predator activity and implications for prey persistence

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Connors

Goodwin

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Ecology

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Spatial heterogeneity in predation risk can ameliorate impacts on prey 27 populations, particularly for prey of generalists. Spatially heterogeneous risk implies the 28 existence of refugia, and the spatial scale of those refugia and their persistence over time affect 29 whether prey can avoid predation by aggregating therein. Our objective was to quantify the 30 magnitude, spatial scale, and temporal persistence of heterogeneity in risk of predation by 31 white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus), an abundant generalist predator of gypsy moths 32 (Lymantria dispar) and songbirds. We used track plates to measure white-footed mouse activity 33 at >170 trees in each of 3 forest plots in upstate New York during summers of [2003][2004][2005]. We 34 quantified the mean and coefficient of variation of track activity among trees by fitting the 35 beta-binomial distribution to data from each plot and study period. We measured temporal 36 persistence by disattenuated autocorrelation, and spatial scale by fitting exponential variograms. These findings indicate that mouse activity, and hence risk to their prey, varies substantially in 43 space at spatial and temporal scales that appear responsive to mouse population dynamics. The 44 spatial scale and temporal persistence of that variation imply that prey may benefit from 45 returning to, or failing to disperse from, refugia. 46

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An Analysis of Bird Populations in Relation to Forest Succession in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario

Cited by 52 publications

References 7 publications

Relationships of bird community structure and species distributions to two environmental gradients in the northern boreal forest

Relationships of bird community structure and species distributions to two environmental gradients in the northern boreal forest

The Ecology of Blackbird (Agelaius) Social Systems

Quantifying a dynamic risk landscape: heterogeneous predator activity and implications for prey persistence

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