The importance of excavators in hole-nesting communities: availability and use of natural tree holes in old mixed forests of western Canada

By K. Aitken, K. Martin. Journal of Ornithology, 2007

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Which factors influence the occurrence and density of tree microhabitats in Mediterranean oak forests (2013, background): “Tree microhabitats support a large food web and may have an important role in the functioning of forest ecosystems (Aitken and Martin, 2007; Martin and Eadie, 1999).”
Woodpeckers, decay, and the future of cavity-nesting vertebrate communities worldwide (2011, background): “Birds that produce tree cavities (“excavators”) are therefore considered a top priority for the conservation of cavity-using communities because they can directly affect the abundance and diversity of vertebrates that require but cannot create cavities (“nonexcavators”) (Daily et al. 1993; Jones et ”
Empirical Evidence for the Scale Dependence of Biotic Interactions (2015, background): “For example, primary cavity-nesting woodpeckers can facilitate secondary cavity nesters (Martin & Eadie, 1999; Aitken & Martin, 2007).”
Tree microhabitats as indicators of bird and bat communities in Mediterranean forests (2013, result): “This result is consistent with previous observations regarding the role of tree cavities (Aitken and Martin, 2007; Cockle et al., 2011; Martin et al., 2004).”