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Article: Black-throated Blue Warbler and Veery abundance in relation to understory composition in Northern Michigan forests.
- Article from:
- The Wilson Journal of Ornithology
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Identifying key habitat characteristics that predict songbird distributions represents an important step towards incorporating songbirds into forest management plans (Martin 1992, Donovan et al. 2002). In the eastern United States, browsing of understory vegetation by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) produces forests that differ in terms of their structural characteristics and plant species compositions from those in less impacted areas (reviewed by Rooney and Waller 2003, Cote et al. 2004), and these changes can affect the abundance of understory-dependent songbirds (Casey and Hein 1983, deCalesta 1994, McShea and Rappole 2000). Browsing impacts, however, are ...