Assessing habitat quality when forest attributes have opposing effects on abundance and detectability: A case study on Darwin’s frogs

Valenzuela-Sánchez, Andrés; Schmidt, Benedikt R; Pérez, Catalina; Altamirano, Tania; Toledo, Verónica; Pérez, Ítalo; Teillier, Sebastián; Cunningham, Andrew A; Soto-Azat, Claudio

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.022

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Valenzuela-Sánchez, A., Schmidt, B. R., Pérez, C., Altamirano, T., Toledo, V., Pérez, Í., Teillier, S., Cunningham, A. A., & Soto-Azat, C. (2019). Assessing habitat quality when forest attributes have opposing effects on abundance and detectability: A case study on Darwin’s frogs. Forest Ecology and Management, 432, 942–948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.022

Abstract

Forest management can be used to increase the local abundance of species of conservation concern. To achieve this goal, managers must be sure that the relationships between the targeted forest attributes and the focal species abundance are based on robust data and inference. This is a critical issue as the same forest attributes could have opposing effects on species abundance and the detectability of individuals, impairing our ability to detect useful habitat quality surrogates and to provide correct forest management recommendations