Simulated treatment effects on bird communities inform landscape-scale dry conifer forest management.

ABSTRACT: Human land use and climate change have increased forest density and wildfire risk in dry conifer forests of western North America, threatening various ecosystem services, including habitat for wildlife. Government policy supports active management to restore historical structure and ecological function. Information on potential contributions of restoration to wildlife habitat can allow assessment of tradeoffs with other ecological benefits when prioritizing treatments. We predicted avian responses to simulated treatments representing alternative scenarios to inform landscape-scale forest management planning along the Colorado Front Range. We used data from the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions program to inform a hierarchical multispecies occupancy model relating species o

SUBMITTER: Latif QS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285579 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature