Influence of Fire and Logging on Nonbreeding Bird Communities of Ponderosa Pine Forests
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 46 (2) , 404-415
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3808652
Abstract
Nonbreedig bird communities were censused on burned and unburned study plots in ponderosa pine (P. ponderosa) habitat of Prescott National Forest, Yavapai County, Arizona [USA]. Logging had occurred on 2 burned and 2 unburned plots. Forty-nine species of birds were recorded during fall, winter and spring. Twenty-eight species were recorded on burned, and 38 spp. on unburned plots. During all seasons, more species were restricted to unburned study plots; more species on unburned sites occurred on only 1 site. Species composition on different areas was related to foraging substrate availability and to season. Habitat alterations caused by fire and by logging appeared to have a similar influence on many components of avian communities. Patterns observed during nonbreeding seasons paralleled, in many instances, response of breeding season communities to similar habitat changes.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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