To successfully manage a landscape, it is necessary to have a basic knowledge of local species and how those species fare over time. Avian communities have been viewed as possibly the most straight-forward and useful group of organisms to both survey and use as a proxy of overall community health, including primary productivity (Lin et al. 2008). Songbirds are commonly studied by land managers because male advertisement (singing) provides a relatively simple way to identify species during the breeding season and because the varying habitat requirements of birds offer an opportunity to detect broader changes in the landscape (May 1982; Etterson et al. 2007).
| Author: National Park Service |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Aug 28, 2013 |
| Number of Pages: 42 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1492164275 |
| ISBN-13: 9781492164272 |