Marsh Tit <i>Poecile palustris</i> territories in a British broad‐leaved wood

Broughton, Richard K.; Hinsley, Shelley A.; Bellamy, Paul E.; Hill, Ross A.; Rothery, P.

doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2006.00583.x

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“…There were differences in habitat structure between the nest buffers and the remainder of the territories, although a statistically significant difference in mean overstorey height in Monks Wood amounted to just 3.8%. This result nevertheless supports the finding that Marsh Tit occupation was associated with taller canopy height at this site (Broughton et al 2006), and the trend was also replicated in the smaller dataset for the Eastern Woods. The overstorey of territory cores was significantly taller than that of the margins, although there was no difference in the height of nest-buffers between female age groups.…”

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“…This behaviour did not facilitate extra-pair copulations, however, and the advantage was unclear. The Marsh Tit (P. palustris), a 10-12 g sedentary woodland species, adopts a similar breeding strategy to the Black-capped Chickadee, whereby pairs occupy exclusive spring territories and nest sites are selected by the female (Morley 1953;Broughton et al 2006), but there is no information for the Marsh Tit on the factors governing nest placement within the territory.…”

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“…Six female spring immigrants that could not be aged before the post-breeding moult were assumed to be FY, because this age group formed 92% of the female immigrants of known age (Broughton et al 2010). Each spring, the boundaries of all 21-23 Marsh Tit territories in the wood were delineated and digitised in a Geographical Information System (GIS), based on observations of territorial behavior between February and May (Broughton et al 2006(Broughton et al , 2010. A total of 117 nest locations (112 in natural cavities, five in nest-boxes) were identified in Monks Wood during intensive surveying of each territory in April and May of [2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010].…”

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The NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner.Author's version: Journal of Ornithology, 153 (3 AbstractThere is a limited understanding of the factors influencing nest placement among territorial birds, including the roles played by habitat, conspecific attraction and female experience of a previous nesting location. We used seven years of Marsh Tit (Poecile palustris) nest site and territory data, and high-resolution vegetation models derived from remote sensing, to investigate spatial patterns of nest placement with regard to previous female experience and age, conspecific attraction, and habitat in a woodland environment. We found no evidence for an effect of conspecific attraction or previous nest location on nest placement within the territory. However, first-year (FY) females placed nests in a random spatial pattern within their territories, and after first-year (AFY) females predominantly placed nests within the central parts of their territories, away from conspecifics.Nest sites were located in areas of comparatively taller overstorey and less understorey than other parts of the territory, although absolute differences were not substantial. Both female age groups nested in areas of the territory where the overstorey contained relatively more Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) than elsewhere. A concentration of this tree species within the core areas of the territories of AFY females may have explained the tendency for that age group to place nests preferentially in those areas. There was no concentration of Common Ash within the territory cores of FY females, which may have explained the random placement of nests within their territories.

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“…Marsh Tits in BNP (and elsewhere) form permanent pairs breeding in exclusive territories of ca. 5 ha (Amann 1997;Broughton et al 2006; own unpublished data), and rear one brood per year (Wesołowski 1998(Wesołowski , 2000(Wesołowski , 2002.Furthermore, I compare the BNP results with observations of Marsh Tit dispersal in fragmented landscapes (for references, see above) to examine the effect of fragmentation on dispersal in this species. I conclude with some J Ornithol (2015) 156:349-361 351…”

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Dispersal in an extensive continuous forest habitat: Marsh Tit Poecile palustris in the Białowieża National Park

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Dispersal is one of the least understood features in the life-history of organisms. Theoretical work concentrates on explaining dispersal of organisms in patchy and heterogeneous landscapes, but there are few predictions of dispersal patterns in stable, spatially extensive and largely homogenous landscapes, such as large forests. It is expected that we should observe short-distance dispersal in such places, that, to avoid competition with parents and siblings and incestuous mating, offspring should leave natal patches (natal dispersal), disperse independently in different directions, and move over distances that efficiently minimise the probability of meeting a sibling. Breeding dispersal should be very limited, site tenacity should prevail. To explore these ideas, I use observations of Marsh Tits Poecile palustris (a small passerine specialist of mature forests) made in the strictly protected part of the Białowie_ za National Park (Poland) over 21 years. The birds largely followed expectations: all fledglings left their natal territories and dispersed in different directions, and males moved shorter distances than females (median = 570 vs. 1,720 m). Apart from this difference, no influence of population density, fledgling time or family size was observed. No parent-offspring pairing occurred, with just one case of sibling-sibling pairing. After first breeding, individuals remained site-tenacious, as breeding dispersal distances were very short (median ca. 100 m). Such behaviour renders Marsh Tit poorly adapted to cross barriers and undertake long-distance movements, and this is actually observed in fragmented landscapes. Understanding dispersal patterns of organisms from extensive environments would be thus of value for basic and conservation science alike. IntroductionDispersal is one of the most important, yet least understood, features of ecology, population biology and evolution (Wiens 2001). Despite numerous efforts (e.g. three edited volumes during the last decade: Clobert et al. 2001Clobert et al. , 2012 Bullock et al. 2002), we are still a long way from comprehending the phenomenon, with Clobert et al. (2012) concluding that ''despite this interest and although the importance of this particular life-history trait is widely recognized, it is perhaps understudied with its overall importance in spatial ecology''. This is mostly a consequence of the enormous difficulties of gathering observations on the movements of individuals through the landscape. Theoretical predictions cannot be tested because the data required to verify them are impossible to collect.Hopefully, with the development of new tracking technologies (e.g. Koenig et al. 1996;Meyburg and Meyburg 2009;Stutchbury et al. 2009;Bächler et al. 2010), the impediment to data collection will be gradually removed. However, there seem to be additional, and conceptual, reasons hindering progress. Theoreticians tend to treat dispersal as a unique phenomenon that could be explained with a single set of rules, in the hope of a general theory of di...

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Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data for the Prediction via Machine Learning of Tree Species, Volume and Biomass: A Contribution for Updating Forest Management Plans

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This work intends to lay the foundations for identifying the prevailing forest types and the delineation of forest units within private forest inventories in the Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT), using currently available remote sensing solutions. In particular, data from LiDAR and hyperspectral surveys of 2014 made available by PAT were acquired and processed. Such studies are very important in the context of forest management scenarios. The method includes defining tree species ground-truth by outlining single tree crowns with polygons and labeling them. Successively two supervised machine learning classifiers, K-Nearest Neighborhood and Support Vector Machine (SVM) were used. The results show that, by setting specific hyperparameters, the SVM methodology gave the best results in classification of tree species. Biomass was estimated using canopy parameters and the Jucker equation for the above ground biomass (AGB) and that of Scrinzi for the tariff volume. Predicted values were compared with 11 field plots of fixed radius where volume and biomass were field-estimated in 2017. Results show significant coefficients of correlation: 0.94 for stem volume and 0.90 for total aboveground tree biomass.

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Marsh Tit Poecile palustris territories in a British broad‐leaved wood

Cited by 44 publications

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Patterns of nest placement in a population of Marsh Tits Poecile palustris

Patterns of nest placement in a population of Marsh Tits Poecile palustris

Dispersal in an extensive continuous forest habitat: Marsh Tit Poecile palustris in the Białowieża National Park

Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data for the Prediction via Machine Learning of Tree Species, Volume and Biomass: A Contribution for Updating Forest Management Plans

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