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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118043
	Avian relationships with bark beetle outbreaks and underlying mechanisms in lodgepole pine and spruce-fir forests of Colorado
	Latif Q.S.; Ivan J.S.; Seglund A.E.; Pavlacky D.L.; Truex R.L.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0378-1127
卷号	464
英文摘要	Bark beetle (Dendroctonus spp.) outbreaks have historically shaped the structure and function of western North American conifer forests by contributing to heterogeneous conditions needed to support various wildlife species. Previous studies of beetle impacts have primarily focused on pine-dominated systems within 1–6 years of outbreak, limiting our knowledge for informing wildlife habitat management to a relatively short timeframe and narrow range of forest types. Increases in extent and severity of outbreaks since 1900, caused in part by anthropogenic climate warming and forest management, elevates the value of understanding how bark beetle outbreaks impact wildlife populations. Our objectives were (1) to evaluate species and community relationships with outbreak severity (percent conifer mortality) and years since outbreak, (2) to evaluate potential environmental mechanisms underlying these relationships, and (3) to compare patterns across the two forest types for improved general knowledge. We studied avian species occupancy and richness in relation to outbreak conditions using two 18-year chronosequence datasets collected in 2013 and 2014 representing lodgepole forests (predominantly Pinus contorta) and spruce-fir forests (co-dominated by Picea engelmannii and Abies lasiocarpa) throughout Colorado. We employed hierarchical models to account for imperfect detection and spatial dependencies when analyzing population and community patterns apparent in data representing 73 bird species. We found various relationships and potential underlying mechanisms largely but not entirely consistent with a priori hypotheses based on species life histories and previous study. As expected, understory-associated birds related positively with outbreak conditions apparently following understory vegetative release. Consistent with our hypotheses, aerial insectivores and snag-associated species also related positively with outbreak conditions, although our data highlighted understory vegetation more so than canopy structure or snags as potential mechanistic factors. Contrary to our overall hypothesis for canopy-associated species, we did not observe many negative outbreak relationships for this group. Overall, bird species richness increased with years since outbreak, with clear increases in lodgepole forest. In contrast, the data from spruce-fir forest provided statistical support for fewer patterns (i.e., fewer with 90% credible intervals excluding zero), and they supported primarily negative relationships with outbreak severity. Our results suggest potential differences in ecological significance of bark beetle outbreaks in different forest types. At least in lodgepole forest, however, observed patterns were apparently consistent with the purported historical value of bark beetle outbreaks for promoting biodiversity (represented here by birds) despite recent increases in extent and severity. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
关键词	Antennas Biodiversity Birds Hierarchical systems Population statistics Anthropogenic climate Bird species richness Heterogeneous conditions Hierarchical model Potential difference Spatial dependencies Understory vegetation Wildlife populations Forestry bark beetle biodiversity chronosequence coniferous tree deciduous forest forest management life history population outbreak species richness wildlife management Bark Biodiversity Birds Data Forestry Forests Hierarchical Systems Patterns Colorado United States Abies Abies lasiocarpa Aves Coleoptera Coniferophyta Dendroctonus Picea Picea engelmannii Pinus contorta Scolytinae
语种	英语
来源机构	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/132875
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Latif Q.S.,Ivan J.S.,Seglund A.E.,et al. Avian relationships with bark beetle outbreaks and underlying mechanisms in lodgepole pine and spruce-fir forests of Colorado[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2020,464.
APA	Latif Q.S.,Ivan J.S.,Seglund A.E.,Pavlacky D.L.,&Truex R.L..(2020).Avian relationships with bark beetle outbreaks and underlying mechanisms in lodgepole pine and spruce-fir forests of Colorado.,464.
MLA	Latif Q.S.,et al."Avian relationships with bark beetle outbreaks and underlying mechanisms in lodgepole pine and spruce-fir forests of Colorado".464(2020).