Assessment of goshawk nest stand habitat using stand density index

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The manipulation of stand density to create a specified stand structure in the future represents a powerful tool in wildlife habitat management. Controlling stand density, and ultimately stand structure, through initial tree spacing and/or subsequent thinning is critical to achieving many specific stand management objectives. Indices of relative stand density, based on average tree size (e.g., mean weight, volume, height, or diameter) and stand density (e.g., trees per hectare) are useful in characterizing current and future stand structure. This paper describes Reineke's stand density index (SDI), and demonstrates its application to the management of Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) nest area habitat.

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Electronic Files - Zoology: Birds

This issue of Studies in Avian Biology was called The Northern Goshhawk: Ecology and Management; William M. Block, Michael L. Morrison, and M. Hildegard Reiser, editors.
We also have a page that says Proceedings of a Symposium of the Cooper Ornithological Society, Sacramento, California, 14-15 April 1993.