Living on the edge: Predicting songbird response to management and environmental changes across an ecotone.

ABSTRACT: Effective wildlife management requires robust information regarding population status, habitat requirements, and likely responses to changing resource conditions. Single-species management may inadequately conserve communities and result in undesired effects to non-target species. Thus, management can benefit from understanding habitat relationships for multiple species. Pinyon pine and juniper (Pinus spp. and Juniperus spp.) are expanding into sagebrush-dominated (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems within North America and mechanical removal of these trees is frequently conducted to restore sagebrush ecosystems and recover Greater Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). However, pinyon-juniper removal effects on non-target species are poorly understood, and changing p

SUBMITTER: Van Lanen NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10646169 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature