Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2018
Publication Title
Northeastern Naturalist
Department
Biological Sciences
Abstract
Since the 1950s, anthropogenic activity has caused the loss of millions of hectares of bottomland hardwood forest in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, causing population declines in bird populations. Restoration of these forest stands has been ongoing for the past 2 decades. We assessed bird species presence on sites in the Upper Mississippi River Valley to quantify diversity and relate presence to habitat conditions and sites’ age since restoration. We observed higher mean diversities at mature bottomland-forest sites during the spring and autumn, but nested ANOVAs indicated no significant differences among restoration-age categories during spring. During the autumn, the 15–23-y and the mature bottomland-forest categories were significantly different from the
Recommended Citation
Le, Paul T.; Ballen, Lindley B.; Essner, Richard; and Minchin, Peter R., "Avian Habitat Use in a Chronosequence of Bottomland Hardwood Forest Restoration Sites" (2018). SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity. 89.
https://spark.siue.edu/siue_fac/89