1. Emily Silverman & Kimberly Hall Territory size and establishment in breeding forest songbirds: Implications for forest management and conservation

2. Project objectives Develop accurate quantitative methods to measure the size and boundaries of breeding territories Investigate factors affecting the relationship between micro-habitat features, territoriality, and breeding densities

3. Isoclines of breeding neotropical migrant diversity Source: Price 1995 Source: Price et al. 1995 Species richness of breeding neotropical migrant songbirds

5. Lightly-browsedHeavily-browsed Thinned hardwoods in the Hiawatha National Forest

6.   40% firs  1.5 m hgt Warbler use Yrs + 0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 Understory vegetation

7. 1300 m Observations of singing males 1999

8. Methods Simulation model of bird movement & sampling strategies Territory mapping of 3 species with different patterns of micro-habitat use Vegetation mapping and measurement Observation of timing and location of spring arrivals