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A critical element of forest management is planning for the needs of its flora and fauna. The process of logging impacts many species. The type of logging practiced has unique impacts. These papers address the impacts of forest fragmentation that results for various forestry practices and the resulting volume of foliage.
Some highlights of these papers: Canopy species, for example, often decline in response to selective logging. Increased light penetration after logging promotes understory growth, which in turn creates more habitat for birds that use dense shrub and sapling habitats. Mechanical damage and incidental felling damage to neighboring trees commonly results in an increased density of snags in some logged forest; cavity-nesting birds respond positively to this increase in available nesting and foraging sites Because tree removal may create edges within large forest stands, especially when larger group cuts are formed, area-sensitive forest interior species may decline, but they are usually not completely extirpated from the stand.
Cowbird Parasitism in a Fragmented Landscape: Effects of Tract Size, Habitat and Abundance of Hosts by Scott K. Robinson, Jeffrey P. Hoover, James R. Herkert, and Rhetta Jack Effects of Selective Logging on Forest Birds in the Trail of Tears State Forest, Southern Illinois, Principal investigator: Scott K. Robinson, Illinois The Reproductive Success of Forest-dependent Songbirds in South-Central Indiana: Effects of Forest Management Practices by Donald E. Winslow, Patrick J. Doran, Donald R. Whitehead, Grant M. Greenberg, Matthew A. Koukol, Elizabeth A. Geils, R. Bernadette Slusher, Thomas B. Ford, Department of Biology, Indiana University. The Effect of Landscape Pattern and Timber and Wildlife Management Practices on the Reproductive Success of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds in South-Central Indiana by Donald R. Whitehead Department of Biology Indiana University Bloomington, IN Within-Landscape Patterns of Land Cover and the Nesting Success of Neotropical Migrant Birds in South-Central Indiana by Patrick J. Doran, Donald R. Whitehead, Donald E. Winslow
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