ARE BOREAL BIRDS RESILIENT TO FOREST FRAGMENTATION? AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SHORT‐TERM COMMUNITY RESPONSES
ARE BOREAL BIRDS RESILIENT TO FOREST FRAGMENTATION? AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SHORT‐TERM COMMUNITY RESPONSES
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北方鸟类对森林破碎化有抵抗力吗?一项关于短期社区反应的实验研究
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1997
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S. Hannon
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F. Schmiegelow;Craig S. Machtans;S. Hannon
We studied the effect of habitat fragmentation on the richness, diversity, turnover, and abundance of breeding bird communities in old, boreal mixed-wood forest by creating isolated and connected forest fragments of 1, 10, 40, and 100 ha. Connected fragments were linked by 100 m wide riparian buffer strips. Each size class within treatments and controls was replicated three times. We sampled the passerine community using point counts before, and in each of two years after, forest harvesting, accumulating 21340 records representing 59 species. We detected no significant change in species richness as a result of the harvesting, except in the 1-ha connected fragments, where the number of species increased two years after isolation. This increase was accounted for by transient species, suggesting that the adjacent buffer strips were being used as movement corridors. Diversity (log series alpha index) was dependent on area in the isolated fragments only after cutting, having decreased in the smaller areas. Tur...