Using aerial LiDAR to assess regional availability of potential habitat for a conservation dependent forest bird

DJ McNeil, G Fisher, CJ Fiss, AJ Elmore… - Forest ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Remotely-sensed data can inform conservation efforts that target forest wildlife, however,
few spatial data products are able to quantify fine-scale aspects of structural variation within …

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 …

Radio-tracking reveals insight into survival and dynamic habitat selection of fledgling Cerulean Warblers

DW Raybuck, JL Larkin, SH Stoleson, TJ Boves - The Condor, 2020 - academic.oup.com
For most bird species, little is known about their ecology and survival between fledging and
independence despite the potential for post-fledging survival to be a factor limiting …

Disturbance-based silviculture for habitat diversification: Effects on forest structure, dynamics, and carbon storage

D Thom, WS Keeton - Forest Ecology and Management, 2020 - Elsevier
Disturbance-based silviculture is of increasing interest as an approach to provide multiple
ecosystem services and beta diversity in habitat conditions. One such approach increasingly …

What Does it Mean to be a Silviculturist?

RJ DeRose, JN Long, KM Waring… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Silviculture has been a dynamic discipline for over a century in North America. During that
time, silviculture has been closely tied with dominant trends in society, from reforestation in …

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 …

Projected gains and losses of wildlife habitat from bioenergy‐induced landscape change

NM Tarr, MJ Rubino, JK Costanza… - GCB …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Domestic and foreign renewable energy targets and financial incentives have increased
demand for woody biomass and bioenergy in the southeastern United States. This demand …

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 …

[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 …

Comparison of point counts and territory mapping for detecting effects of forest management on songbirds

FL Newell, J Sheehan, PB Wood… - Journal of Field …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Point counts are commonly used to assess changes in bird abundance, including analytical
approaches such as distance sampling that estimate density. Point‐count methods have …