Projected long-term response of Southeastern birds to forest management

Threshold responses of songbirds to long-term timber management on an active industrial forest

“…Past research has shown that species diversity increases across the landscape in response to uneven-aged harvests (Annand and Thompson, 1997;Robinson and Robinson, 1999;Campbell et al, 2007), even-aged harvests (Annand and Thompson, 1997;Baker and Lacki, 1997), and overall disturbance (Mitchell et al, 2006(Mitchell et al, , 2008. Increased diversity is attributed to the increase in species using forest gaps and early successional habitats (Lent and Capen, 1995;Robinson and Robinson, 1999;Greenberg and Lanham, 2001) and greater overall variation in forest age (Mitchell et al, 2006).…”

Composition and structure of natural mixed-oak stands in northern and central Portugal

“…A diverse oak mature forest with diverse habitat components is likely to be related with high species diversity. Different attributes provided by various tree species such as diverse foliage, bark types, dead wood and coarse debris, and hollow bearing trees for nesting and shelter have been identified as important resource bases for different life forms (Recher, 1969;Woinarski and Cullen, 1984;MacNally et al, 2001;Franklin et al, 2002;Harvey et al, 2002;Mitchell et al, 2008).…”

Effects of forest landscape change and management on the range expansion of forest bird species in the Mediterranean region

“…Our data set is one of the best currently available for assessing the range changes of an entire taxonomic group at 10 Â 10 km scale in the Mediterranean region. Furthermore, multi-scale analyses have been advocated to analyze effects of changes in vegetation on the spatial pattern of bird species (Coreau and Martin, 2007;Mitchell et al, 2008;GilTena et al, 2009).…”

“…Forest management can also affect forest bird communities at large spatial scales (Mitchell et al, 2008) but these effects are not well studied in the Mediterranean region. Furthermore, Mediterranean ecosystems appear to be especially susceptible to the impacts of global change (Lavorel et al, 1998;Metzger et al, 2008).…”