Designing Sustainable Landscapes: Representative Species Model: Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)

Ovenbird was selected as a representative species for the Designing Sustainable Landscapes project of the North Atlantic LCC (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/designing_sustainable_landscapes/). The habitat clusters (ecological systems) and associated wildlife species that it represents generally comprise moist hardwood and mixed forests, including northern hardwood forests (both Laurentian-Acadian and Appalachian), pine-hemlock-hardwood forest, and piedmont mesic forest.. The Landscape Capability (LC) index integrates habitat capability and climate suitability into a single index that reflects the relative capacity of a site to support the species.