globalchange  > 影响、适应和脆弱性
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.11.024
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85001950375
论文题名:
Are old boreal forests a safe bet for the conservation of the avifauna associated with decayed wood in eastern Canada?
作者: Cadieux P.; Drapeau P.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN:  0378-1127
出版年: 2017
卷: 385
起始页码: 127
结束页码: 139
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Black spruce ; Deadwood ; Hole-users ; Mixedwoods ; Old boreal forest ; Paludification ; Trembling aspen ; Woodpeckers
Scopus关键词: Birds ; Degradation ; Ecology ; Ecosystems ; Logging (forestry) ; Black spruce ; Deadwood ; Hole-users ; Mixedwoods ; Old boreal forests ; Paludification ; Trembling aspen ; Woodpeckers ; Forestry ; avifauna ; bird ; boreal forest ; coniferous forest ; conservation management ; dead wood ; deciduous tree ; foraging behavior ; functional group ; habitat conservation ; habitat fragmentation ; habitat use ; latitudinal gradient ; mixed forest ; paludification ; species diversity ; species occurrence ; species richness ; stand structure ; Canada ; Ontario [Canada] ; Quebec [Canada] ; Quebec [Quebec (PRV)] ; Aves ; Picea mariana ; Picidae
英文摘要: Old boreal forests are considered quality habitats for birds associated with decaying and dead trees. However, the quantity and quality of these structural attributes in old forest stands are likely to be influenced by important latitudinal changes in tree species composition and productivity from the southern boreal mixed to the northern coniferous forests. We measured habitat occupancy of cavity and bark nesting birds in old forests when the boreal forest landscape shifts from a mixed to a dominant coniferous matrix in the Clay Belt of Québec and Ontario, a region where paludification dominates. Using playback calls, songs, and recent woodpeckers’ foraging signs on trees, we measured the occurrence and foraging habitat use of 11 bird species associated with deadwood in 86 unmanaged forest stands along a forest age gradient in both mixed and coniferous stands. In coniferous stands dominated by black spruce, deadwood birds showed a modal distribution in response to the aging of black spruce forests that reached a peak in stands of 160 years and then declined. Unproductive paludified stands, which made up more than 40% of our study area, were associated with a significantly lower species richness of deadwood birds. At the opposite, although they represented less than 4% of the forest cover in our study area, old boreal mixedwood forests (>90 years) were highly utilized habitats by deadwood birds. Structural diversity of trees (diversity of degradation stages and diameter of trees) was the variable that best explained species richness of this functional group of birds whereas at the individual species level, the quantity and quality of dead trees (degradation and size) in stands best explained species occurrence and abundance of foraging signs. Conservation efforts for deadwood birds should focus on old productive stands of both mixed and coniferous composition. However, our study pinpoints old mixedwood stand as habitats of special concern given their disproportionate importance for deadwood birds in northern boreal forests. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/64533
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作者单位: Université du Québec à Montréal, NSERC-UQAT-UQAM Industrial Chair in Sustainable Forest Management, Centre for Forest Research, C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Cadieux P.,Drapeau P.. Are old boreal forests a safe bet for the conservation of the avifauna associated with decayed wood in eastern Canada?[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2017-01-01,385
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