Synopsis: Large-scale patterns of land use and fragmentation have been associated with the decline of many imperiled wildlife populations. Lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) are restricted to the southern Great Plains of North America, and their population and range have declined by > 90% over the past 100 years. Our objective was to examine scale-dependent relationships between landscape structure and change and long-term population trends for lesser prairie-chicken populations in the southern Great Plains. We used a geographic information system (GIS) to quantify landscape composition, pattern and change at multiple scales (extents) for fragmented agricultural landscapes surrounding 10 lesser...
Categories: Publication;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Grasslands,
Land use configuration,
Landscape fragmentation,
Oklahoma/ Texas,
agriculture, All tags...
birds,
configuration,
conservation ecology,
edge,
fragmentation,
hierarchy,
historical trends,
landscape change,
landscape structure,
meso-regional,
metapopulations,
patch size,
prairie,
prairie-chickens, Fewer tags
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