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Much of the focus of Red Knot research and conservation over the past twenty years has largely focused on just a few sites along the Atlantic flyway, primarily in the mid-Atlantic region. The major cause of the Red Knot population decline in the 1990’s through 2003 was mostly attributed to declining horseshoe crab numbers in Delaware Bay due to their overharvest for the commercial bait industry. Substantial focus has been placed on improving horseshoe crab populations through better horseshoe crab management in the Delaware Bay region and on improving horseshoe crab and shorebird habitat in Delaware Bay. This work has likely halted the decline in the numbers of Red Knots passing through Delaware Bay: populations...
River herring [collectively alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) and blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis)] have been valued by human societies since pre-colonial times, but populations have undergone a dramatic coast-wide decline over the past five decades (ASMFC 2012, NFWF 2012). Declines in river herring have sparked a series of conservation and restoration measures, including dam removal, extensive moratoria on directed harvest, caps on bycatch (e.g., in the Atlantic herring fishery), designation as a species of concern both at Federal and State levels, and petitions for listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Northeast Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (NEAFWA) identified alewife and blueback herring...
The FWS considers the Appalachian grizzled skipper (AGS, Pyrgus wyandot) a Species of Concern and is requesting key information on this species for a status review. According to the RFP, FWS has given AGS full species status, however, AGS’s taxonomic status is considered controversial. Some lepidopterists recognize P. wyandot as a full species whereas others consider it a subspecies, P. centaureae wyandot (pers. comm. B. Leppo, PA Natural Heritage Program; in Chazal et al., 2004). Regardless, FWS can still list AGS as threatened or endangered at the species or subspecies level. In this proposal, AGS will be treated as P. c. wyandot for simplicity during genetic analysis (Objective 4). The AGS is a small butterfly...
The overarching goal of this project is to evaluate the FWS and State of Florida condition that requires beach tilling (to a depth of 3 feet) three years post-beach nourishment (and restoration) projects because of the perceived threat of sand compaction to nesting sea turtles and incubating sea turtle clutches. The FWS mandates this requirement throughout all southeastern states and FWC mandates it throughout Florida. This requirement, based on anecdotal data along Atlantic Florida beaches, guides our intent to target northern Gulf of Mexico beaches, to include Northwest Florida initially. At the request of the FWS, we propose to investigate if removal of this requirement will be detrimental, maintain or improve...
Products form this SSP project consisted of data that contributed to DOI on the Landscape.
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Evaluation of aquatic resources,
FWSR4,
SSPQR,
storymap
This SSP project resulted in a final report and two publications (Nest occurrence and survival of King Rails in fire-managed coastal marshes in North Carolina and Virginia, King Rail (Rallus elegans) Occupancy and Abundance in Fire Managed Coastal Marshes in North Carolina and Virginia). The project explored this use of Bayesian network modeling using the King Rail as a case study. Although Bayesian network (BN) models have been promoted to the conservation community as models well-suited to support adaptive management strategies, there have been few tests of these claims. To test the value of BNs to support U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Service's Strategic Habitat Conservation approach to...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Conservation planning/decision support,
FWSR4,
SSPQR,
storymap
This SSP project resulted in two publications Two New Sculpins of the Genus Cottus (Teleostei: Cottidae) from Rivers of Eastern North America David A. Neely, James D. Williams, and Richard L. Mayden Copeia 2007 2007:3, 641-655 Two new species of freshwater sculpins are herein described from the Gulf Slope of the southeastern United States. The Tallapoosa Sculpin, Cottus tallapoosae, is restricted to the Tallapoosa River drainage, a tributary to the Mobile Basin, above the Fall Line in Alabama and Georgia, while the Chattahoochee Sculpin, Cottus chattahoochee, is restricted to the Chattahoochee River drainage, a tributary to the Apalachicola River, above the Fall Line in Georgia. Both differ from other North American...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Evaluation of aquatic resources,
FWSR4,
SSPQR,
storymap
To ensure compliance with the Endangered Species Act, many public and private project proponents across much of the eastern U.S. conduct presence/probable absence (P/A) surveys for federally listed bats before taking actions that may directly affect bats and/or the forested habitats they use. The Service relies upon these P/A bat surveys as the primary tool for detecting and conserving surviving bat maternity colonies scattered across the landscape during the summer. Thus, periodically reevaluating and adjusting the minimum required P/A survey level of effort (LOE) for bat acoustic and mist netting techniques is important for managers to continue to have confidence in P/A survey results and to inform when bat conservation...
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