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Forest As A Habitat: Joseph Paquit, MSC

Forests provide important habitat beyond just trees. Coarse woody debris like logs, snags, and branches provide habitat for fungi, invertebrates, mosses and lichens. Snags are also used by birds for nesting, perching and roosting. Forest fragmentation involves breaking apart a forest, reducing total habitat area and diversity. It causes isolation of populations and increases edge effects like predation and invasion of exotics. Rare, area-sensitive, isolation-sensitive and edge-sensitive species are most affected. Habitat corridors connect separated wildlife populations and allow for colonization, migration and interbreeding to stabilize populations.

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Forest As A Habitat: Joseph Paquit, MSC

Forests provide important habitat beyond just trees. Coarse woody debris like logs, snags, and branches provide habitat for fungi, invertebrates, mosses and lichens. Snags are also used by birds for nesting, perching and roosting. Forest fragmentation involves breaking apart a forest, reducing total habitat area and diversity. It causes isolation of populations and increases edge effects like predation and invasion of exotics. Rare, area-sensitive, isolation-sensitive and edge-sensitive species are most affected. Habitat corridors connect separated wildlife populations and allow for colonization, migration and interbreeding to stabilize populations.

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Forest As a Habitat

Joseph Paquit, MSc


Forests are much more than just trees
Habitat trees

Source : Reed (2000)


Coarse Woody Debris (CWD)

• Refers to the range of different sizes and types


of woody material that can be found in forests.
Examples:
1. Logs
2. Snags
3. Chunks of wood
4. Large branches
5. Coarse roots
Coarse Woody Debris (CWD)

• Important
habitats of fungi,
invertebrates,
mosses and
lichens
• Snags are used
by birds for
nesting,
perching and
roosting.
Forest fragmentation

 “breaking apart” of a forest habitat


 Distinct from habitat loss
 Considered to be one of the drivers of forest
habitat degradation
Effects of Forest fragmentation

1. Causes reduction in total area


– Loss of original habitat diversity
– Reduction in population size
2. Formation of disjunct areas (Insularization effect)
– Decrease in dispersal and immigration
– Isolation of population
– Faunal collapse
3. Increase in edge Habitat
– Reduction in effective habitat area
– Increased predation
– Increased invasion of exotics
– Change in microclimate
Effects of Forest fragmentation

Species that are most affected by fragmentation


• Area sensitive
• Isolation sensitive
• Edge sensitive
• Rare species
• Specialists
Habitat corridors
 Also known as ecological corridors
 is an area of habitat
connecting wildlife populations separated by
human activities or structures (such as roads,
development, or logging)
Habitat corridors
Corridors can contribute to three factors that
stabilize a population:
• Colonization animals are able to move and
occupy new areas when food sources or other
natural resources are lacking in their core habitat.
• Migration species that relocate seasonally can
do so more safely and effectively when it does not
interfere with human development barriers.
• Interbreeding—animals can find new mates in
neighboring regions so that genetic diversity can
increase and thus have a positive impact on the
overall population.

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