Red-headed Woodpecker: DSL

In support of the Designing Sustainable Landscapes project, avian habitat models were developed for 40 species representing 12 distinct habitat types within the South Atlantic Migratory Bird Initiative region (see Table 1 ). These models were used to assess the current and future capability of habitats to support sustainable bird populations in the face of complex landscape changes including urban growth and the effects of climate change on sea level rise and plant community succession. The basis of the habitat models was derived from the Southeast Gap Analysis Project which utilized a deductive approach to develop boolean (presence/absence) predictive habitat maps within a species known range (see Appendix A and Appendix B for SE-GAP [...]