Birds and Land Classes in Young Forested Landscapes

摘要: In the Mississippi Coastal Plain of southeastern United States, we explored relationships among bird spe- cies and vegetation types landscape characteristics at four different scales. We modeled abundance priority avian species from Breeding Bird Surveys using land class metrics 0.24, 1, 3, 5-km extents. Our modeling method was logistic regression model selection based on Akaike's Information Criteria validation with reserved data. Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus), red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus), northern parula (Parula americana), Swainson's warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii), prairie (Dendroica discolor), hooded (Wil- sonia citrina), brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) had models containing positive area or core variables. White-eyed vireo (Vireo griseus) gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) a combination edge associations Acadian flycatcher (Empidonax virescens), red-bellied carolinus), wood thrush (Hylocichla mustelina), yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) density mod- els. Modeling scales produced more complete habitat for most variables were influential larger extents than smallest extent. Although is heavily forested, unexpectedly fragmented, small areal types. Managers should seek to provide large variety habitats, including historically representative such as low pine, support persistence suite species.