Communities

Assemblages, listed ecological communities, and functional groups. The species is not always the principal unit.

assemblage

Small woodland-dependent birds

Coherence here means whether organisms, functions, habitat, disturbance and flows still hold together. Increasing biomass or tree cover does not restore that. The woodland-bird assemblage is losing interior insectivore roles while edge-aggressive miners increase — a simplification, not a richness story.

Scale · assemblage

ecological community

declining

Cumberland Plain Shale Woodlands

The living community is the test of the listed woodland, not the canopy polygon.

Scale · community

functional group

uncertain

Pollinators (functional group)

This functional group is a designed slot for future observations, including a possible MicroSentinel transfer. It is not scored from absence of insect data.

Scale · functional group