Tree microhabitats as indicators of bird and bat communities in Mediterranean forests

B Regnery, D Couvet, L Kubarek, JF Julien… - Ecological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Tree microhabitats (eg, canopy deadwood, cavities, and loose bark) may play an important
role in forest biodiversity conservation. Indeed, many species depend on tree microhabitats …

Effects of forest structure, management and landscape on bird and bat communities

A Bouvet, Y Paillet, F Archaux, L Tillon… - Environmental …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Sustainable forest management aims to produce wood while preserving habitats for
biodiversity, which is particularly challenging for vertebrates with local and landscape scale …

Ecosystem services capacity across heterogeneous forest types: understanding the interactions and suggesting pathways for sustaining multiple ecosystem services

M Alamgir, SM Turton, CJ Macgregor, PL Pert - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
As ecosystem services supply from tropical forests is declining due to deforestation and
forest degradation, much effort is essential to sustain ecosystem services supply from …

Flat and complex temperate reefs provide similar support for fish: Evidence for a unimodal species-habitat relationship

AB Paxton, EA Pickering, AM Adler, JC Taylor… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Structural complexity, a form of habitat heterogeneity, influences the structure and function of
ecological communities, generally supporting increased species density, richness, and …

Effects of highways on bird distribution and soundscape diversity around Aldo Leopold's shack in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA

MG Khanaposhtani, A Gasc, D Francomano… - Landscape and Urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract In the 1940s, Aldo Leopold took extensive notes on birds and their sounds near his
iconic shack in Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA. His observations, along with his land …

Tall, large-diameter trees and dense shrub layer as key determinants of the abundance and composition of bird communities in oak-dominated forests

M Komlós, Z Botta-Dukát, J Bölöni, R Aszalós… - Journal of Forestry …, 2024 - Springer
Increasing human activity is altering the structure of forests, which affects the composition of
communities, including birds. However, little is known about the key forest structure …

Avian beta diversity in a neotropical wetland: the effects of flooding and vegetation structure

FF de Deus, KL Schuchmann, J Arieira… - Wetlands, 2020 - Springer
Habitat heterogeneity in the Pantanal results from flood dynamics and vegetation
characteristics. Considering that these impacts affect landbird nesting conditions and food …

Effects of vegetation structure on the diversity of breeding bird communities in forest stands of non-native black pine (Pinus nigra A.) and black locust (Robinia …

J Hanzelka, J Reif - Forest Ecology and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Forest management affects stands' vegetation structure, which influences bird communities.
Since the effects of forest practices are usually more pronounced if the exotic tree species …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of forest management on bird assemblages in oak-dominated stands of the Western Carpathians–Refuges for rare species

P Lešo, R Kropil, Ł Kajtoch - Forest Ecology and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Forest management practices have varying impacts on biodiversity because the treatments
and their outcomes do not always reflect the natural processes that maintain biodiversity …

Beyond beaver wetlands: The engineering activities of a semi-aquatic mammal mediate the species richness and abundance of terrestrial birds wintering in a …

I Fedyń, F Przepióra, W Sobociński, J Wyka… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The engineering activities of the Eurasian beaver Castor fiber have far-reaching effects on
the components of an environment and therefore modify the functioning of the ecosystem …