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JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
卷 85, 期 5, 页码 1009-1016出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22045
关键词
Antrostomus vociferus; conservation; disturbance; management; point count
资金
- Fort Drum Military Installation
- United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Populations of the eastern whip-poor-will have declined, making it a species of high conservation concern. Research shows that whip-poor-wills are associated with forest stands with open canopies and intermediate levels of basal area, while their presence is negatively related to understory height. These findings provide managers with quantitative targets for whip-poor-will management.
Populations of the eastern whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus; whip-poor-will) have declined throughout most of its range, making it a species of high conservation concern in nearly every state and province where it occurs. Researchers have reported whip-poor-wills are associated with forest stands with open canopies, and thus silviculture may be a promising means for promoting their populations, yet the ecological literature does not quantify fine-scale habitat relationships capable of assisting with silviculture prescriptions. Our objective was to quantify the associations between whip-poor-wills, canopy openness, and other vegetation characteristics to provide managers with guidance for whip-poor-will management. Based on prior research, we hypothesized that whip-poor-wills may be associated with intermediate levels of canopy retention and that their numbers would also be affected by understory characteristics. We surveyed whip-poor-wills with point counts in managed forest at the Fort Drum Army installation in New York, USA, during 2015 and 2016 and collected vegetation measurements at each point count location to relate whip-poor-will occupancy with vegetation structure and composition. Whip-poor-will occupancy was strongly related to intermediate levels of basal area, with peak occupancy at 13.8 m(2)/ha, a value that corresponds to forest denser than most shrublands but more open than closed-canopy forest. Whip-poor-will presence was negatively related to understory height, which is consistent with prior studies. These findings provide managers with quantitative targets that can be used to increase or maintain whip-poor-will numbers and abundance of other disturbance-associated species similarly unable to persist in unmanaged forests stands. (c) 2021 The Wildlife Society.
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