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Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes pp 111–135Cite as

Modern forestry and the capercaillie

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The large Eurasian woodland grouse, capercaillie Tetrao urogallus (Plate B), is a resident species with a breeding range covering a large area within the boreal coniferous zone of the palearctic region. This distribution coincides quite well with the distribution of Scots pine Pinus sylvestris (Seiskari, 1962), as well as with the eastern limit of bilberry Vactinium myrtillus (Klaus et al., 1989), two important food species for the capercaillie during winter and summer, respectively. The species’ main distribution extends from Scotland in the northwest (where capercaillie have been reintroduced), through Fennoscandia, eastward to northern Siberia to the basin of the lower Kureika River (following approximately the July isotherm of 53°F in the north and 70°F in the south). In Central Europe there are scattered populations in the Pyrenees, the Jura, the Carpathians, the Cantabrian Mountains and parts of the Alps (Voous, 1960; Cramp et al., 1983; Johnsgard, 1983; Klaus et al., 1989) (Figure 4.1).

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Sjöberg, K. (1996). Modern forestry and the capercaillie. In: DeGraaf, R.M., Miller, R.I. (eds) Conservation of Faunal Diversity in Forested Landscapes. Conservation Biology, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1521-3_4

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