Review Article

Sustaining Cavity-Using Species: Patterns of Cavity Use and Implications to Forest Management

Table 1

Regional use of standing hardwood trees as den, nest, and roost sites by mammals. Data of [25, 5961, 128130, 139, 140, 143, 144, 148153, 203229].

% Hardwoods (number of sites)
BorealInlandCoast

All bats80.0 (307)16.9 (1307)10.8 (301)
Northern flying squirrel41.7 (224)25.3 (185)9.1 (993)
Fisher100 (27)93.2 (80)11.1 (33)
Black bear0 (116)64.2 (545)0 (302)