Avian Assemblages Differ between Old-Growth and Mature White Pine Forests of Ontario, Canada: A Role for Supercanopy Trees?

We predicted that bird diversity and abundance of some bird species would be higher in old-growth stands than in mature pine stands because of the greater structural diversity in old growth. We also predicted that patch size of stands should be influential. To test these predictions, we modeled coun...

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Main Authors: David Anthony. Kirk, Daniel A. Welsh, James A. Baker, Ian D. Thompson, Myriam Csizy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2012-06-01
Series:Avian Conservation and Ecology
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Online Access:http://www.ace-eco.org/vol7/iss1/art4/