Birds as Forest Management Indicators

Birds as Indicators of Forest Management Sustainability: Evaluation of Past and Future Survey Approaches

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This research is being completed in part for my M.S. in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Maine under Dr. Amber Roth and Dr. Erin Simons-Legaard.

Goal: Manage forests for sustainability in the Acadian Forests using birds as ecological indicators.

Objective 1: Assess the sustainability of silvicultural treatments through long-term monitoring of bird populations

Objective 2: Develop a long-term Autonomous Recording Unit (ARU) survey plan for the continued monitoring of sustainable forestry in the Acadian Forest.

Objective 3: Integrate new ARU data with past transect survey data.

The expected completion of the thesis will be December 2026.

Abstract

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