BREEDING BIRD COMMUNITIES IN BOREAL FOREST OF WESTERN CANADA: CONSEQUENCES OF “UNMIXING” THE MIXEDWOODS

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Local forest structure, climate and human disturbance determine regional distribution of boreal bird species richness in Alberta, Canada (2013, background): “BIOSKETCHES Jian Zhang is a PhD student at University of Alberta, Canada.”
Comparative responses of bird, carabid, and spider assemblages to stand and landscape diversity in maritime pine plantation forests (2005, background): “Mixed woodlands have a greater availability of nesting sites, less nest predation, and higher food abundance, all of which can be related to higher structural heterogeneity within the stand (Hobson & Bayne, 2000; Griffis-Kyle & Beier, 2003).”
Importance of mixedwoods for biodiversity conservation: Evidence for understory plants, songbirds, soil fauna, and ectomycorrhizae in northern forests (2011, background): “Additionally, mixed forests may host relatively higher levels of biotic diversity, as compared to ‘monocultures’ (Hobson and Bayne 2000; Work et al. 2004; Buddle et al. 2006; Macdonald and Fenniak 2007) but the evidence for this has not been thoroughly examined.”
Effects of forest composition and structure on bird species richness in a Mediterranean context: Implications for forest ecosystem management (2007, background): “The literature consulted confirmed higher species richness in older forests (e.g., Hobson and Bayne, 2000b; Jansson and Andrén, 2003; Dı́az, 2006).”