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The US Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) has experienced some of the highest rates of grassland loss in North America over a time that coincides with dramatic declines in grassland songbird populations yet increasing abundance of most grassland-nesting duck species except for northern pintail. To provide more insight into this contradiction, we propose to capitalize on long-term databases to evaluate how a key population driver nest survival for North American ducks has responded to system changes in the region including landscape and climatic factors. Outcomes of these analyses will contribute to testing primary conservation planning assumptions for the PPJV a vital component of the PPJV Strategic Habitat Conservation...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Federal resource managers,
Grasslands,
Project,
SA Science Catalog, All tags...
Strategic Science - 1420,
USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog,
duck,
duck,
environment,
nest survival,
nest survival,
nesting,
nesting,
onGoing,
prairie pothole, Fewer tags
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Robust assessments of nesting periods and durations for many grassland-nesting birds in the Great Plains are lacking. The timing of management practices (e.g., grazing, haying, mowing, burning) will invariably have different benefits or impacts to different guilds of birds. Our goal is to inform decisions about timing of management practices with research to provide an improved quantification and understanding of contemporary nesting season patterns for grassland birds. Results from this project could aid program managers through improved assessments of tradeoffs from the timing of management actions for various priority birds in the Great Plains.
Categories: Data,
Project;
Tags: Academics & scientific researchers,
Federal resource managers,
Grasslands,
Informing Conservation Delivery,
Project, All tags...
SA Science Catalog,
Strategic Science - 1420,
USFWS Science Applications Science Catalog,
environment,
grassland,
nesting,
nesting,
nesting season patterns,
nesting season patterns,
onGoing,
timing,
timing, Fewer tags
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