Rodney B. Siegel Elisabeth B. Webb Colin P. Dillingham Matthew Johnson Dylan C. Kesler Rachel V. Blakely 2020 <div id="abstracts" class="Abstracts u-font-serif"><div id="ab0005" class="abstract author" lang="en"><div id="as0005"><p id="sp0035"><span>Increasing frequency and severity of&nbsp;wildfire&nbsp;may jeopardize persistence of large tracts of late seral forest, raising concerns over population viability of forest-dependent species like the&nbsp;Northern Goshawk&nbsp;(</span><i>Accipiter gentilis</i><span>). We tracked 20 adult Northern&nbsp;Goshawks&nbsp;with&nbsp;GPS&nbsp;loggers over 4 years to investigate roosting (nocturnal) and foraging (diurnal) habitat selection in a heterogeneously burned forest landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, United States. Goshawks selected late seral forest attributes for both roosting and foraging at multiple spatio-temporal scales, although at the finest (daily) scale, goshawks selected more diverse forest structure that included small trees and medium canopy cover. Less than 6% of roosts were in areas burned in the last 50 years and goshawks avoided areas burned at high severity when roosting and when foraging across spatial scales. Four goshawks (3 males, 1 female) undertook forays &gt;5 km from their nest location, two of which forayed into burned areas during at least one season. High&nbsp;severity fire&nbsp;is likely to make forests unsuitable foraging or roosting habitat for Northern Goshawks, although lower severity fire may provide foraging opportunities for this&nbsp;generalist&nbsp;predator. Eighty percent of foraging space use and 87% of roost locations were considered high fire hazard potential, suggesting that goshawk habitat in western North America is likely to be reduced by predicted increases in fire frequency and severity in the region.</span></p></div></div></div> application/pdf 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108348 en Elsevier Multi-scale habitat selection by Northern Goshawks (Accipiter gentilis) in a fire-prone forest article