Preferential Use of Aspen by Ruffed Grouse in Northern Minnesota

Svoboda, Franklin J.; Gullion, Gordon W.

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“…al. 1947, Phillips 1967, Svoboda and Gullion 1972, but the relationships between fo.od habits and diet quality are still largely unknown. Progress has been slow because of the lack of accurate; efficient, arid tested methods for measuring the metabolizable energy (ME) in the natural diet of ruffed grouse.…”

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Regional Variation in the Nutritional Ecology of Ruffed Grouse

Servello¹,

Kirkpatrick²

1987

The Journal of Wildlife Management

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Regional Variation in the Nutritional Ecology of Ruffed Grouse

Servello¹,

Kirkpatrick²

1987

The Journal of Wildlife Management

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“…In Minnesota, ruffed grouse used pure quaking aspen, mixed quaking aspen hardwood, and mixed quaking aspen conifer forests but avoided forests without a quaking aspen overstory (Svoboda and Gullion 1972). Also in Utah and Wyoming ruffed grouse were found primarily in quaking aspen forests (Dorn and Dorn 1990;Hayward and others 1976).…”

Section: Habitatmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Quaking aspen and, in particular, young quaking aspen stands with minimal canopy cover (rather than conifer stands) can provide adequate snow for burrows and protection from predators (Gullion 1970;Rusch and Keith 1971a;Stauffer and Peterson 1985a;Thompson and Fritzell 1989). Also, in the winter, young quaking aspen stands provide buds upon which ruffed grouse can forage (Svoboda and Gullion 1972). In areas with mild winters and wet or icy snow conditions that preclude snow roosting, grouse selected areas with moderate to high canopy cover.…”

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“…In winter, adults rely on buds, twigs, and especially quaking aspen catkins (Rusch and others 2000). Where quaking aspen co-occurs with bigtooth aspen (Populus grandidentata) and paper birch, ruffed grouse prefer quaking aspen catkins (Svoboda and Gullion 1972). In Virginia, principal December foods were soft fruits (69 percent; e.g., greenbrier, Smilax spp., grape Vitis spp., cranberry, Viburnum spp., dogwood, Cornus spp., and rose) followed by hard fruits (18 percent; e.g., oaks, Quercus alba, Q. ilicifolia, Q. rubra, and sumac Rhus spp.).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, in Minnesota, ruffed grouse selected home ranges with high densities of small and uniform vegetative patches and home ranges were centered on areas with abrupt vegetative edges (Svoboda and Gullion 1972). Patches of young quaking aspen and mixed vegetative patches containing tens of thousands of stems per acre (ha) are frequently used by ruffed grouse and can be sustained by light burning (Gullion and Alm 1983;Jones and DeByle 1985;Stauffer and Peterson 1985b).…”

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Northern goshawk and its prey in the Black Hills: Habitat assessment

Graham¹,

Volo²,

Reynolds³

2015

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The northern goshawk is classified as a Sensitive Species in all USDA Forest Service regions, including on the Black Hills National Forest in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming. An assessment was conducted of the quality of northern goshawk nesting and foraging habitat, along with the habitat quality of 22 of the goshawk's prey species. A Delphi (expert panel) evaluation of goshawk and prey habitat in 3,414 watersheds averaging 449 acres (182 ha) in size was completed by wildlife biologists from the Black Hills National Forest. The quality of goshawk nesting and foraging habitat and of prey group habitats was reported individually, then combined for each watershed. The optimum goshawk and prey habitat, totaling 67 watersheds or 34,427 acres (13,932 ha), was distributed throughout the nearly 1.5 million-acre (about 607,000-ha) Black Hills National Forest. Panel members found that the Bear Lodge Mountains, located in northeastern Wyoming, proportionally had the most optimum, high-, and medium-rated habitat. Wildfire, bark beetles, urban encroachment, and timber harvest can negatively affect northern goshawks and their prey's habitat. However, increasing the amount and presence of quaking aspen forests within the Black Hills will most likely improve the habitat of the goshawk by improving the habitat for many of its prey. Using previously articulated conditions as a template in the Forest Vegetation Simulator, we designed an example 100-year silvicultural system to create and maintain forest conditions for the northern goshawk and its prey on the Black Hills Experimental Forest.Keywords: northern goshawk, Accipiter gentilis atricapillus, silviculture, forest structure, bark beetles, ponderosa pine, forest management. AuthorsRussell T. Graham is a research forester (silviculturist) with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, in Moscow, Idaho. His research activities include the role that coarse woody debris plays in forests, large-scale ecosystem assessment and planning, describing northern goshawk habitat, and developing forest management strategies (silvicultural systems) for a wide array of management objectives. Shelley Bayard deVolo is an environmental coordination specialist for the Larimer County Engineering Department in Fort Collins, Colorado. She studied wildlife for several decades in California, Arizona, Colorado, and South Dakota. During her 15-year tenure with the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, Colorado, she assisted in studying demographic and habitat relationships for northern goshawks on the Kaibab Plateau, Arizona. She also determined genetic diversity for Kaibab goshawks and investigated genetic relationships for goshawk populations across North America.Richard T. Reynolds is a research wildlife biologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins, Colorado. He has investigated the relationship between the composition and structure of habitats as well as the demographic performance of apex avian predat...

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Landscape effects on the contemporary genetic structure of Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) populations

Jensen

O'Neil

Iwaniuk

et al. 2019

Ecology and Evolution

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The amount of dispersal that occurs among populations can be limited by landscape heterogeneity, which is often due to both natural processes and anthropogenic activity leading to habitat loss or fragmentation. Understanding how populations are structured and mapping existing dispersal corridors among populations is imperative to both determining contemporary forces mediating population connectivity, and informing proper management of species with fragmented populations. Furthermore, the contemporary processes mediating gene flow across heterogeneous landscapes on a large scale are understudied, particularly with respect to widespread species. This study focuses on a widespread game bird, the Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus), for which we analyzed samples from the western extent of the range. Using three types of genetic markers, we uncovered multiple factors acting in concert that are responsible for mediating contemporary population connectivity in this species. Multiple genetically distinct groups were detected; microsatellite markers revealed six groups, and a mitochondrial marker revealed four. Many populations of Ruffed Grouse are genetically isolated, likely by macrogeographic barriers. Furthermore, the addition of landscape genetic methods not only corroborated genetic structure results, but also uncovered compelling evidence that dispersal resistance created by areas of unsuitable habitat is the most important factor mediating population connectivity among the sampled populations. This research has important implications for both our study species and other inhabitants of the early successional forest habitat preferred by Ruffed Grouse. Moreover, it adds to a growing body of evidence that isolation by resistance is more prevalent in shaping population structure of widespread species than previously thought.

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Preferential Use of Aspen by Ruffed Grouse in Northern Minnesota

Cited by 56 publications

References 12 publications

Regional Variation in the Nutritional Ecology of Ruffed Grouse

Regional Variation in the Nutritional Ecology of Ruffed Grouse

Northern goshawk and its prey in the Black Hills: Habitat assessment

Landscape effects on the contemporary genetic structure of Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) populations

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