Climate change, woodpeckers, and forests: Current trends and future modeling needs.

ABSTRACT: The structure and composition of forest ecosystems are expected to shift with climate-induced changes in precipitation, temperature, fire, carbon mitigation strategies, and biological disturbance. These factors are likely to have biodiversity implications. However, climate-driven forest ecosystem models used to predict changes to forest structure and composition are not coupled to models used to predict changes to biodiversity. We proposed integrating woodpecker response (biodiversity indicator) with forest ecosystem models. Woodpeckers are a good indicator species of forest ecosystem dynamics, because they are ecologically constrained by landscape-scale forest components, such as composition, structure, disturbance regimes, and management activities. In addition, they are correlated with

SUBMITTER: Walsh ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6392386 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature