Parental benefits and offspring costs reflect parent–offspring conflict over the age of fledging among songbirds

TM Jones, JD Brawn, IJ Ausprey… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Parent–offspring conflict has explained a variety of ecological phenomena across animal
taxa, but its role in mediating when songbirds fledge remains controversial. Specifically …

Mapping recent timber harvest activity in a temperate forest using single date airborne LiDAR surveys and machine learning: lessons for conservation planning

GB Fisher, AJ Elmore, MC Fitzpatrick… - GIScience & Remote …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Effective planning for natural resource management and wildlife conservation requires
detailed information on vegetation structure at landscape scales and how structure is …

Post-fledging Golden-winged Warblers require forests with multiple stand developmental stages

CJ Fiss, DJ McNeil, AD Rodewald, JE Duchamp… - The Condor, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Our understanding of songbird habitat needs during the breeding season stems largely from
studies of nest success. However, growing evidence shows that nesting habitat and post …

[PDF][PDF] Cross-scale habitat selection reveals within-stand structural requirements for fledgling Golden-winged Warblers.

CJ Fiss, DJ McNeil, AD Rodewald… - Avian Conservation & …, 2021 - researchgate.net
The post-fledging period remains one of the most understudied portions of the avian
lifecycle despite the fact that fledglings require resources distinct from those used during …

Evaluating the predictors of habitat use and successful reproduction in a model bird species using a large‐scale automated acoustic array

LM Chronister, JT Larkin, TA Rhinehart, D King… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of continental to global scale biodiversity data has led to growing
understanding of patterns in species distributions, and the determinants of these …

[HTML][HTML] Benefits of Golden-winged Warbler and Cerulean Warbler habitat restoration for non-target forest birds: An empirical examination of the focal species concept

TA Rhinehart, DJ McNeil, CJ Fiss, JL Larkin… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the growing popularity of using single species as surrogates for biodiversity,
conservation interventions for a single taxon do not always benefit other species within the …

Natal forest fragment size does not predict fledgling, pre-migration or apparent annual survival in Wood Thrushes

SM Hayes, BP Boyd, AM Israel… - Ornithological …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Determining the drivers and mechanisms for first year survival of migratory songbirds has
been an understudied area in population dynamics due to the difficulty in tracking juveniles …

A comparison of methods for the long-term harness-based attachment of radio-transmitters to juvenile Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica)

EJ Buck, JD Sullivan, CM Kent, JM Mullinax… - Animal …, 2021 - Springer
Background While the period from fledging through first breeding for waterbird species such
as terns (eg, genus Sterna, Sternula) is of great interest to researchers and conservationists …

Over the river and through the woods: Multi-scale habitat associations of two at-risk bird species in riparian forests of the Central Appalachians

JT Larkin, CJ Fiss, HA Parker, MC Tyree… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Several species-specific habitat management guidelines have been created over the past
decade to help recover declining populations of forest birds in eastern North America …

Effects of forest management on private lands in West Virginia on Cerulean Warblers (Setophaga cerulea) and the avian community

LR Oliver, RS Bailey, KR Aldinger, PB Wood… - Forest Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) supports private lands
conservation projects across the United States to benefit imperiled focal wildlife species …