Rate of Secondary Succession in Forest Bird Communities

The rate of secondary succession in forest birds has been quantified on the basis of the Jaccard, Sørensen, and Renkonen indices, and of an index derived from Shannon's measure of diversity. All indices give very similar results. In the Polish oak-hornbeam forest the rate of succession (TR) dec...

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Published in:Ornis Scandinavica 1975-01, Vol.6 (1), p.33-40
Main Authors: Glowacinski, Zbigniew, Jarvinen, Olli
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birds
Boreal forests
Coniferous forests
Ecological succession
Ecological zones
Forest ecology
Forest succession
Population ecology
Secondary forests
Species diversity
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Summary:The rate of secondary succession in forest birds has been quantified on the basis of the Jaccard, Sørensen, and Renkonen indices, and of an index derived from Shannon's measure of diversity. All indices give very similar results. In the Polish oak-hornbeam forest the rate of succession (TR) decreases monotonously with time, but in Finnish coniferous forests (spruce and pine) the TR curves have a peak after 5-25 years from the beginning. The climax characteristically has a turnover rate of less than 10 per cent from that of the initial stages. The logarithms of TR can be expressed satisfactorily as linear functions of time. This is probably not true of TR curves for primary succession, owing to a lengthy period of soil development in primary succession.
ISSN:0030-5693
DOI:10.2307/3676277