Comparisons of Wintering Bird Communities in Mature Pine Stands Managed by Prescribed Burning

摘要

We compared the effects of growing season and dormant season prescribed fire on the win- ter bird communities in mature pine stands on Fort Benning Military Reservation, Georgia. We surveyed The avian community using fixed-radius point counts From 1 December 1995 to 28 February 1996, one year After burning. We detected no differences in mean bird Abundance or species richness between urn treat- Ments. No species was observed more or less frequent- Ly in either burn treatment. Season of burn had little Apparent effect on the composition of wintering bird Communities in managed mature pine forests.