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Emily Silverman & Kimberly Hall Territory size and establishment in breeding forest songbirds: Implications for forest management and conservation.

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1 Emily Silverman & Kimberly Hall Territory size and establishment in breeding forest songbirds: Implications for forest management and conservation

2 Project objectives Develop accurate quantitative methods to measure the size and boundaries of breeding territories Investigate factors affecting the relationship between micro-habitat features, territoriality, and breeding densities

3 Isoclines of breeding neotropical migrant diversity Source: Price 1995 Source: Price et al. 1995 Species richness of breeding neotropical migrant songbirds

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5 Lightly-browsedHeavily-browsed Thinned hardwoods in the Hiawatha National Forest

6   40% firs  1.5 m hgt Warbler use Yrs + 0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 Understory vegetation

7 1300 m Observations of singing males 1999

8 Methods Simulation model of bird movement & sampling strategies Territory mapping of 3 species with different patterns of micro-habitat use Vegetation mapping and measurement Observation of timing and location of spring arrivals


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