Joel Ralston, UMass Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Joel Ralston, UMass Amherst

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Ralston and colleagues report for the first time how combining data from several local point counts offers a new picture of how birds in hard-to-reach habitats are faring. Their analyses of data from 16 point count programs conducted in spruce-fir forests show that populations of four species considered ecological indicators for the boreal forest are in significant decline.

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