Forestry thinning in commercial conifer plantations has little effect on bird species richness and breeding abundance

Citation

Calladine JR, Humphreys E, Strachan F & Jardine DC (2009) Forestry thinning in commercial conifer plantations has little effect on bird species richness and breeding abundance. Bird Study, 56 (1), pp. 137-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063650802681698

Abstract
Capsule Levels of thinning practised in upland Scotland are insufficient to permit the development of ground vegetation and shrub layers that might enhance some breeding bird populations.

Keywords
ABUNDANCE; Development; LEVEL; levels; Population; POPULATIONS; Scotland; VEGETATION

Journal
Bird Study: Volume 56, Issue 1