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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118238
	Habitat resilience for songbirds: The role of topographic position in a mixed deciduous forest
	Persche M.E.; Pidgeon A.M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0378-1127
卷号	472
英文摘要	Climate change is altering patterns of resource availability and this may have negative effects on insectivorous forest birds in the US upper Midwest. As invertebrate life cycle phenology shifts due to earlier spring leaf-out, nesting birds are vulnerable to phenological mismatches between food supply and demand. Areas with complex topography, and thus a variety of thermal and humidity conditions, may support a greater variety of plant and invertebrate phenological rates and stages within close proximity than are found in areas with simple topography. However, the extent and magnitude of this phenomenon is unclear, as is the degree to which topographic position may influence the ability of species to persist during extreme conditions. We examined the effects of topographic position on the phenology of a tri-trophic forest system over two years from spring through mid-summer. We hypothesized that in cool microsites the likelihood of trophic mismatches and late season food shortages is lower than in warm microsites. At 70 sites in the Baraboo Hills, part of the Driftless Area of the US Midwest, we recorded leaf-out timing of over 700 deciduous trees, measured weekly changes in invertebrate biomass on understory foliage, and conducted bird point counts to assess avian species richness and density. In stream gorges, cooler temperatures were associated with slight but significant delays in leaf-out timing of canopy and understory deciduous trees relative to upland sites. At all sites, invertebrate biomass was distributed relatively evenly across the study period, in contrast to other temperate zone sites where phenological mismatches have been reported between birds and their invertebrate prey. Invertebrate biomass was similar in stream gorges and uplands in both study years. Insectivorous bird species richness was greater in stream gorges than in the surrounding upland forest during both seasons and was positively related to Lepidoptera larvae biomass in the understory. Among eight abundant insectivorous bird species, density was similar in uplands and stream gorges, among four species density was higher in uplands, and density of two species was higher in stream gorges. These results suggest that insectivorous birds within this study area are unlikely to experience trophic mismatches, and that despite having cooler microclimates and higher avian species richness, stream gorges did not provide more invertebrate food resources than uplands under the climate conditions of the years in which we sampled this tri-trophic system. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
英文关键词	Advancing spring; Avian species richness; Invertebrate; Lepidoptera larvae; Microclimate; Tree phenology
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Biomass; Birds; Climate change; Cooling systems; Economics; Food supply; Landforms; Life cycle; Springs (components); Topography; Bird species richness; Climate condition; Complex topographies; Extreme conditions; Humidity conditions; Resource availability; Supply and demand; Topographic positions; Forestry; bird; climate change; climate conditions; deciduous forest; habitat structure; insectivory; invertebrate; mixed forest; resource availability; songbird; species richness; topography; tritrophic interaction; Biomass; Birds; Cooling Systems; Economics; Life Cycle; Topography; Baraboo; Midwest; United States; Wisconsin; Aves; Invertebrata; Lepidoptera
来源期刊	Forest Ecology and Management
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/155203
作者单位	SILVIS Lab, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Persche M.E.,Pidgeon A.M.. Habitat resilience for songbirds: The role of topographic position in a mixed deciduous forest[J],2020,472.
APA	Persche M.E.,&Pidgeon A.M..(2020).Habitat resilience for songbirds: The role of topographic position in a mixed deciduous forest.Forest Ecology and Management,472.
MLA	Persche M.E.,et al."Habitat resilience for songbirds: The role of topographic position in a mixed deciduous forest".Forest Ecology and Management 472(2020).