Forest-clearing to create early-successional habitats: Questionable benefits, significant costs

MJ Kellett, JE Maloof, SA Masino, LE Frelich… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
A campaign is underway to clear established forests and expand early-successional
habitats—also called young forest, pre-forest, early seral, or open habitats—with the …

Multiscale drivers of restoration outcomes for an imperiled songbird

DJ McNeil, AD Rodewald, V Ruiz‐Gutierrez… - Restoration …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat restoration is a cornerstone of conservation, particularly for habitat‐limited species.
However, restoration efforts are seldom rigorously monitored at meaningful spatial scales …

Evaluating golden‐winged warbler use of alder and aspen communities managed with shearing in the western Great Lakes

A Buckardt Thomas, DJ McNeil, JL Larkin… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Best management practices are often written by researchers to guide land managers and
landowners in the creation of habitat for wildlife species of interest. These documents are …

The Role of Predators in Shaping Urban Bird Populations: 1. Who Succeeds in Urban Landscapes?

NS Morozov - Biology Bulletin, 2022 - Springer
To date, urbanization has resulted in the establishment of peculiar, often extremely dense
urban populations in some wild bird and mammal species. However, until the beginning of …

The Role of Predators in Shaping Urban Bird Populations: 2. Is Predation Pressure Increased or Decreased in Urban Landscapes?

NS Morozov - Biology Bulletin, 2022 - Springer
Contrasting points of view on the degree and results of predation pressure in cities
compared to natural/rural landscapes are considered. One of these points of view states that …

Variables associated with nest survival of Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera) among vegetation communities commonly used for nesting

KR Aldinger, TM Terhune, PB Wood, DA Buehler… - 2015 - researchrepository.wvu.edu
Among shrubland-and young forest-nesting bird species in North America, Golden-winged
Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera) are one of the most rapidly declining partly because of …

Disturbed Amazonian forests support diminished breeding bird communities

CL Rutt, MD Kaller, PC Stouffer - The Condor, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Twenty percent of the Brazilian Amazon has now been deforested, and deforestation rates
are increasing. This compels us to evaluate the conservation potential of human-modified …

[PDF][PDF] Using a natural reference system to evaluate songbird habitat restoration.

DJ McNeil, CJ Fiss, EM Wood… - Avian Conservation & …, 2018 - researchgate.net
The Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) is an imperiled songbird that breeds in
early-successional plant communities of eastern North America. Conservation efforts on the …

Heterogeneity in breeding productivity is driven largely by factors affecting nestlings and young fledglings in an imperiled migratory passerine

DJ McNeil, AD Rodewald, V Ruiz‐Gutierrez… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying factors that drive variation in vital rates among populations is a prerequisite to
understanding a species' population biology and, ultimately, to developing effective …

An evaluation and comparison of conservation guidelines for an at-risk migratory songbird

DJ McNeil, KR Aldinger, MH Bakermans… - Global Ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
For at-risk wildlife species, it is important to consider conservation within the process of
adaptive management. Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera) are Neotropical …