Mark C. Drever

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data collected under a diverse range of forest types, harvest treatments, and forest health conditions during a long-term study of bird communities in interior British Columbia, Canada, to examine two basic questions: (1) at the level of individual forest stands, is woodpecker richness correlated with bird richness (measured as richness of all other bird species)? and (2) do woodpecker richness and bird richness have similar habitat correlates?

TL;DR: The first experiment to show how reduced cavity supply in logged tropical forest can limit breeding density of cavity-nesting birds is conducted, suggesting that cavity supply can limit nest density even in relatively undisturbed forest.

TL;DR: Strong correlations between liver and muscle isotope values for both 13 C and 15 N are found, suggesting that dietary preferences within individuals remained relatively constant and have important ramifications for dietary investigations of introduced fauna and their effect on native scabirds on oceanic slands.

TL;DR: Field observations regarding changes in forest stand conditions and avian biodiversity are summarized and the patterns of habitat change, beetle salvage, and wildlife responses as the mountain pine beetle epidemic runs its course are evaluated.

TL;DR: Future management of prairie ducks could be improved by implementing harvest models that account explicitly for spatial variation in density effects and environmental stochasticity on population abundance.