Pleased to announce another new paper titled “Responses of a bird community to sporadic outbreaks of woody herbivorous insects in a temperate beech forest in Japan.” led by Kazuma Yasuda at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

We reported that most bird species investigated showed no abundance response to beech sawfly outbreaks, suggesting only weak top-down effects of birds in controlling outbreaks of herbivorous insects altering beech forests.

This is another product from Tatsuya’s productive collaboration with folks at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

Read the paper here.