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Pavement And Riparian Forest Shape The Bird Community Along An Urban River Corridor, Christopher J.W. Mcclure, Allison C. Korte, Julie A. Heath, Jesse R. Barber
Pavement And Riparian Forest Shape The Bird Community Along An Urban River Corridor, Christopher J.W. Mcclure, Allison C. Korte, Julie A. Heath, Jesse R. Barber
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Knowledge of habitat use by animals within urban-riparian corridors during the breeding season is important for conservation, yet remains understudied. We examined the bird community along an urban-riparian corridor through metropolitan Boise, Idaho and predicted that occupancy of individual species and species richness would be greater in forested areas than in urbanized areas. We surveyed birds throughout the summers of 2009 and 2010 and quantified the m2 of each cover-type within 50-m, 100-m, and 200-m buffers surrounding each survey location using satellite imagery. Occupancy modeling revealed that eight of 14 species analyzed were positively associated with riparian forest, and …