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- Title
Black grouse Lyrurus tetrix and capercaillie Tetrao urogallus brood habitats in a Norwegian spruce forest.
- Authors
Børset, Erik; Krafft, Arne
- Abstract
The breeding habitat utilization of black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix (L.) and capercaillie Tetrao urogallus L., during early summer was investigated in a spruce forest in Akershus Country in the central part of southeastern Norway. The study revealed that the black grouse showed a greater preference for the earlier stages in the forest succession than did the capercaillie. In this area, the black grouse breeding habitat was characterized by a well-developed bush stratum. A high percentage of the capercaillie broods, however, was found in mature forest with a sparsely developed bush stratum. The black rouse broods seemed to prefer a plant community of the Dryopteris subassociation, white capercaillie broods had a more even distribution over the plant associations and subassociations in the area.
- Subjects
BLACK grouse; WESTERN capercaillie; HABITATS; PLANT ecology; BIOTIC communities; DRYOPTERIS
- Publication
Oikos, 1973, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0030-1299
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3543246