Scott H. Harris

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the central challenge for sustainable forestry is analogous to that facing food-production systems, and that the land sharing-sparing framework devised to establish which approach to farming could meet food demand at least cost to wild species can be readily adapted to assess contrasting forest management regimes.

TL;DR: It is argued that stating multiple alternative hypotheses increases research clarity and precision, and is more likely to address the mechanisms for observed patterns in nature.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the degree to which plantations affect biodiversity by quantifying songbird abundance across a gradient in forest stand age (stand initiation through canopy closure), estimating the duration of early seral habitat, and testing if forest structural and compositional elements prolong habitat availability.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that changes to plant community structure would affect the number of avian predators, thereby mediating cascade strength, and reduced plant abundance and diversity in the most intensive herbicide treatment in relation to untreated controls did not change the strength of the direct effect of birds on arthropods or the indirect effect of Birds on plants.