DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.026
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84961134136
论文题名: Biotic and abiotic impacts of Double-crested cormorant breeding colonies on forested islands in the southeastern United States
作者: Lafferty D.J.R. ; Hanson-Dorr K.C. ; Prisock A.M. ; Dorr B.S.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2016
卷: 369 起始页码: 10
结束页码: 19
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Double-crested Cormorant
; Forest health
; Human-wildlife conflict
; Soil chemistry
; Water quality
; Waterbirds
Scopus关键词: Ecology
; Escherichia coli
; Health
; Hydrochemistry
; Soils
; Vegetation
; Water quality
; Double-crested Cormorant
; Forest health
; Human-wildlife conflict
; Soil chemistry
; Waterbirds
; Forestry
; coliform bacterium
; colonization
; concentration (composition)
; forest health
; nesting
; nesting behavior
; phosphorus
; seabird
; soil chemistry
; vigor
; water quality
; United States
; Escherichia coli
; Phalacrocoracidae
; Phalacrocorax auritus
英文摘要: Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) numbers have increased in North America, and concomitantly cormorants appear to be expanding their nesting range in the southeastern United States. Because colonial nesting waterbirds can impact water quality, soil chemistry and subsequent vegetation succession patterns, our goal was to assess the extent to which cormorant breeding colonies are influencing the biotic and abiotic attributes of forested islands in the southeastern United States. Our objectives were to (1) compare water quality characteristics in near-shore surface waters around forested islands with and without nesting cormorants during the peak-nesting/fledgling period and post-fledgling period, (2) measure soil chemistry parameters for forested islands with and without nesting cormorants, and (3) compare tree health metrics on forested islands with and without nesting cormorants. Our results indicate that cormorant colonies are not significant contributors to general coliforms or Escherichia coli levels in waters surrounding southern breeding colonies. Cormorants also do not appear to have significant direct effects on water chemistry. We did find that cormorant colonies are affecting soil chemistry. Soil from within the nesting colony was more acidic and had greater concentrations of phosphorous than soils on reference islands. In addition, we found evidence that cormorants are negatively affecting tree health within nesting colonies as evidenced by a greater number of trees of lower vigor class within the nesting colonies compared to reference sites. While cormorants do cause abiotic and biotic changes, these are part of the natural ecological processes that occur following waterbird colonization. Management to reduce unwanted impacts that nesting cormorants are having on forested island habitats should be considered within a framework that allows for natural ecological processes, including changes in soil chemistry and subsequent vegetation succession. © 2016 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/64945
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作者单位: Carnivore Ecology Laboratory, Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States; US Department of Agriculture, Wildlife Services National Wildlife Research Center, Mississippi Field Station, P.O. Box 6099, Mississippi State, MS, United States; Weyerhaeuser Company, 29 Tom Rose Road, Columbus, MS, United States; Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Wildlife and Conservation Biology, David Clark Labs, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
Recommended Citation:
Lafferty D.J.R.,Hanson-Dorr K.C.,Prisock A.M.,et al. Biotic and abiotic impacts of Double-crested cormorant breeding colonies on forested islands in the southeastern United States[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2016-01-01,369