Article: Arthropod prey of Wilson's Warblers in the understory of Douglas-fir forests.(Report)

Food availability is a basic, critical habitat component that often limits reproductive success and survival of breeding birds (Martin 1987, Rodenhouse and Holmes 1992). Distribution and abundance of food have been correlated with population size of birds and are major factors in habitat selection and use (Wiens 1989, Block and Brennan 1993). The availability of food resources for terrestrial birds often is closely tied to vegetation structure and composition (Robinson and Holmes 1982, Holmes and Schultz 1988, Whelan 1989). Unfortunately, researchers rarely quantify direct linkages between vegetation and food resources (Holmes 1981), relying instead on correlative ...

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