NEW YORK — It turns out that woodpeckers are useful for more than using their beaks like jackhammers.
The habitat preferences of black-backed woodpeckers have led scientists to create a tool that can help forest managers promote regrowth and biodiversity following wildfires, according to a study published last week in the scientific journalBlack-backed woodpeckers"love pyrodiversity," or variation in the way that fires burn, which results in uneven patches burned at high, medium, and low severity, Andrew Stillman, a postdoctoral researcher of ecology and conservation at the Cornell...
Other datasets integrated into the tool include woodpecker home ranges, vegetation type, latitude, longitude, elevation and years since the last fire. Researchers also put radio transmitters that weigh less than a paperclip on both adult and baby birds, or juvenile and fledgling birds, to act as a"secret window into the birds movements" and how they interact with burned forests.
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