Avian habitat evaluation: should counting birds count?

By C. Bock, Zach F. Jones. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Bird communities as bioindicators: the focal species concept in agricultural landscapes. (2006, background): “Therefore, considering: (a) the paper of Bock and Jones (2004), (b) the definition of focal species proposed by Lambeck (1997), and (c) a practical application that use focal species as a planning tool (Bani et al., 2002), we accept the statement that the abundance is related to the environmental…”
Developing a population target for an overabundant ungulate for ecosystem restoration (2011, background): “Van Horne (1983) cautioned that this tenet was incorrect, but since then many studies have shown that resources selected by a range of vertebrates based on indices of animal density can have links to abundance (Wheatley, Larsen & Boutin 2002; Bock & Jones 2004).”
Habitat preference, accessibility, and competition limit the global distribution of breeding Black-browed Albatrosses (2011, background): “However, albatrosses are long-lived (60þ years), have low fecundity (maximum one offspring per year), and high philopatry (.95% of juveniles recruit to their natal colonies), so source–sink effects are unlikely to be marked (see also Bock and Jones 2004).”
Productivity increases with variation in aggression among group members in Temnothorax ants (2011, background): “However, nest density can be a reliable indicator of good habitat quality, which has been shown both in birds (Bock and Jones 2004; Pérot and Villard 2009) and ants (Kaspari et al. 2000).”
Invasive Plant and Experimental Venue Affect Tadpole Performance (2006, unknown): “Field abundance counts can be unreliable (van Horne 1983; Schmidt and Whelan 1999; Bock and Jones 2004); more appropriate measures sensitive to subtle changes in habitat quality include demographic parameters such as fecundity or recruitment (Doak 1994; Byers and Goldwasser 2001).”
Biological consequences of invasion by reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea) (2009, background): “Because habitat occupancy or bird density, as was measured here, does not always correspond to habitat quality (Bock and Jones 2004; Van Horne 1983), future studies should directly measure whether RCG invasion reduces habitat productivity (e.g., by reducing the quantity or quality of arthropods…”
EFFECTS OF PRESCRIBED BURNS AND BISON (BOS BISON) GRAZING ON BREEDING BIRD ABUNDANCES IN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE (2006, background): “One weakness of the present study, insofar as it can be used to judge the conservation relevance of diff erent management regimes, is that it does not directly assess reproductive success, though bird abundance has been shown to be generally a good correlate (Bock and Jones 2004).”
Corridors for Conservation: Integrating Pattern and Process (2006, background): “Yet, 85% of avian studies have found that habitats used more intensively by a bird species were also those in which reproductive success was highest (Bock & Jones 2004).”
Assessments of habitat preferences and quality depend on spatial scale and metrics of fitness (2007, background): “Habitat choices in some cases may indeed be maladaptive, particularly in human-altered environments where habitat cues have become decoupled from historic outcomes (Kokko & Sutherland 2001; Battin 2004; Bock & Jones 2004; Robertson & Hutto 2006).”
Habitat Selection at Multiple Scales (2009, background): “In many cases, proxies for demography such as density may serve as adequate indicators of habitat quality (Bock & Jones, 2004).”
The relative importance of patch habitat quality and landscape attributes on a declining steppe-bird metapopulation (2010, background): “Hence, Dupont’s lark density values likely constitute a misleading surrogate of habitat quality, as found in other bird species inhabiting human-disturbed landscapes (Bock and Jones, 2004).”
MEASURING HABITAT QUALITY: A REVIEW (2007, background): “Since the publication of her influential and oft-cited paper (Bock and Jones 2004), biologists have recognized that robust measures of habitat quality require a thorough unraveling of habitat-specific measures of demography (i.e., density, reproduction, and survival measures in each…”
Someplace like home: Experience, habitat selection and conservation biology (2007, background): “Every few years, ecologists point out various reasons why population density provides a poor estimate of habitat quality (VanHorne, 1983; Purchell and Verner, 1998; Railsback et al., 2003; Bock and Jones, 2004).”