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Author : Maple Andrew Taylor
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Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book Status, Ecology, and Management of the Lesser Prairie Chicken written by Maple Andrew Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David A. Haukos
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482240238
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens written by David A. Haukos and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryLesser Prairie-Chickens have experienced substantial declines in terms of population and the extent of area that they occupy. While they are an elusive species, making it difficult at times to monitor them, current evidence indicates that they have been persistently
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Total Pages : 17 pages
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Download or read book Ecology and Management of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terrence Guinman Bidwell
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Total Pages : 17 pages
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Download or read book Ecology and Management of the Lesser Prairie-chicken written by Terrence Guinman Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maple Andrew Taylor
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Download or read book Status, Ecology, and Management of the Lesser Prairie Chicken written by Maple Andrew Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Een en ander over het prairiehoen
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Total Pages : 15 pages
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Download or read book Status, Ecology, and Management of the Lesser Prairie Chicken written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Edward Dusang
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Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Impacts of Energy Development on the Lesser Prairie-chicken Ecology and Management written by Daniel Edward Dusang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ecology and Management of the Greater Prairie-Chicken written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terrence Guinman Bidwell
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Download or read book Ecology and Management of the Greater Prairie-chicken [in Oklahoma written by Terrence Guinman Bidwell and published by . This book was released on 2002* with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Hoch
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383877
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Booming from the Mists of Nowhere written by Greg Hoch and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten months of the year, the prairie-chicken’s drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. Competing with each other for the attention of females, males gather before dawn in an explosion of sights and sounds—“booming from the mists of nowhere,” as Aldo Leopold wrote decades ago. There’s nothing else like it, and it is perilously close to being lost. In this book, ecologist Greg Hoch shows that we can ensure that this iconic bird flourishes once again. Skillfully interweaving lyrical accounts from early settlers, hunters, and pioneer naturalists with recent scientific research on the grouse and its favored grasslands, Hoch reveals that the prairie-chicken played a key role in the American settlement of the Midwest. Many hungry pioneers regularly shot and ate the bird, as well as trapping hundreds of thousands, shipping them eastward by the trainload for coastal suppers. As a result of both hunting and habitat loss, the bird’s numbers plummeted to extinction across 90 percent of its original habitat. Iowa, whose tallgrass prairies formed the very center of the greater prairie-chicken’s range, no longer supports a native population of the bird most symbolic of prairie habitat. The steep decline in the prairie-chicken population is one of the great tragedies of twentieth-century wildlife management and agricultural practices. However, Hoch gives us reason for optimism. These birds can thrive in agriculturally productive grasslands. Careful grazing, reduced use of pesticides, well-placed wildlife corridors, planned burning, higher plant, animal, and insect diversity: these are the keys. If enough blocks of healthy grasslands are scattered over the midwestern landscape, there will be prairie-chickens—and many of their fellow creatures of the tall grasses. Farmers, ranchers, conservationists, and citizens can reverse the decline of grassland birds and insure that future generations will hear the booming of the prairie-chicken.
Author : Maurice F. Baker
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Download or read book The Ecology and Management of Prairie Chickens in Kansas written by Maurice F. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brett K. Sandercock
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520270061
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Grouse written by Brett K. Sandercock and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Summarizing current knowledge of grouse biology, this volume is organized in four sections--spatial ecology, habitat relationships, population biology, and conservation and management--and offers insights into spatial requirements, movements, and demography of grouse. Much of the research employs emerging tools in ecology that span biogeochemistry, molecular genetics, endocrinology, radio-telemetry, and remote sensing".--Adapted from publisher descrip tion on back cover
Author : Samantha Robinson
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Download or read book Landscape Ecology, Survival and Space Use of Lesser Prairie-chickens written by Samantha Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has experienced range-wide population declines and range contraction since European settlement. Due to ongoing declines, lesser prairie-chickens were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 2014; however, uncertainty regarding the legal status of the species has developed following a judicial decision to vacate the listing in September 2015. Regardless, new research is required for conservation planning, especially for understudied portions and temporal periods of the occupied range. I evaluated nonbreeding lesser prairie-chicken survival using known-fate models, and tested for the influence of environmental, landscape and predator effects on weekly survival. I estimated nonbreeding home-range size using fixed kernel density estimators and Brownian Bridge movement models for VHF and Satellite tagged lesser prairie-chickens, and measured habitat use during the 6-month nonbreeding period (16 September - 14 March). I also determined the influence of lek location on space use intensity within home ranges using resource utilization functions. Female survival was high (0.75, SE = 0.05) and consistent across nonbreeding seasons, but not explainable by selected variables. Mean home range size for birds with GPS transmitters (955 ha, SE = 128.5) was 215% larger than for individuals with VHF transmitters (303 ha, SE = 24.1) and 136% greater during the 2014-2015 nonbreeding season than the 2013-2014 season. Males and females were tied to leks throughout the nonbreeding season, and this relationship was not variable across the months of the nonbreeding season. Proportions of habitat used differed among study sites, but temporal trends were not evident. Lesser prairie-chickens exhibited consistency among ecoregions for home-range, space use, and survival; however, with differing habitat use among regions, management should be on the regional scale. Agriculture and energy development have caused fragmentation of the landscape where lesser prairie-chickens evolved. I used known fate survival models to test if landscape composition or configuration within sites caused survival to differ by site, as well as within home ranges to determine if functional relationships exist between weekly survival and landscape configuration or composition. I used Andersen-Gill models to test whether distance to anthropogenic features affected hazard rates. Differences in survival rates between sites, with survival rates 50% greater in Clark County, Kansas compared to Northwestern, Kansas, corresponded to differences in the amount of grassland habitat on the landscape, but study-site configuration was not measurably different. Increasing the number of patch types within home ranges increased survival, indicating positive effects of heterogeneity. In addition, as distance to fences decreased, lesser prairie-chickens experienced greater risk. Overall, further breakup of grassland landscapes that lesser prairie-chickens occupy should be avoided, to avoid habitat loss and fragmentation thresholds that could further affect survival rates. Additionally, fences should be removed or avoided around active leks.
Author : Daniel J. Lusk
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Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Non-breeding Season Ecology of Lesser Prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus Pallidicinctus) Assessing Survival and Resource Selection Within Southeastern New Mexico written by Daniel J. Lusk and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lesser Prairie-chicken (tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is a grouse species that is native to the great basin region of North America. Over the past century, the species has experienced an estimated 90% reduction in population, resulting in the species being listed as "Threatened" on the endangered species list in 2014; with this listing being vacated by court order in 2015. Most research for this species has been focused on the breeding season, resulting in a relative paucity of information regarding non-breeding season demographics and resource selection information. I monitored Lesser Prairie-chickens throughout the non-breeding seasons of 2013 and 2014 in southeastern New Mexico, within the bounds of six study areas, The objectives of my study were to estimate 1) adult survival and 2) resource selection of Lesser Prairie-chickens during the 2013 and 2014 non-breeding season. The estimated probability of a Lesser Prairie-chicken surviving the entire non-breeding season in 2013 was 63.18% ± 0.109 (95% CL = 40.5 -- 81.2 whereas the probability of a Lesser Prairie-chicken surviving the entire nonbreeding season across all study areas in 2014 was estimated as 92.36% ± 0.042 (95% Cl 78.84 -- 97.5). Survival estimates varied by study area from 47.2% ± 0.251 (95% Cl = 11.06 -- 86.53) to 90.48% ± 0.064 (95% Cl = 68.9 -- 98.6). Resource selection was modeled using a generalized linear mixed effect modeling approach. Characteristics of selected habitat were positively correlated with higher VOR readings and negatively correlated with bare ground cover and shrub height. Selection for areas with higher 25% VOR cover estimates was highest at study sites with higher levels of habitat fragmentation. My research indicates that survival was highest in 2014 than 2013 and can possible be explained by increased precipitation between years. Resource selection varied widely across study years and study areas, but indicated that areas with low shrub height, reduced bare group cover, and increased overall cover, driven by residual grasses, are important in predicting bird use. Current management practices in fragmented habitats may need to be modified in order to maximize perennial grass cover for Lesser Prairie-chicken habitat throughout its range in southeastern New Mexico, especially during the nonbreeding season.
Author : Michael Eugene Morrow
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Ecology of Attwater's Prairie Chicken in Relation to Land Management Practices on the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge written by Michael Eugene Morrow and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Walsh Schwartz
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Total Pages : 510 pages
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Download or read book The Ecology of the Prairie Chicken in Missouri written by Charles Walsh Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this investigation was to learn what factors have limited the range and abundance of the prairie chicken and upon what requirements its welfare depends. Ultimately this would permit practical management under which these birds might maintain a desirable level of population. The study dealt with the life history and habits of the prairie chicken, as well as with its present and potential distribution population status, and range requirements"--Pate [13].
Author : John A. Crawford
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Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book A Bibliography of the Lesser Prairie Chicken, 1873-1980 written by John A. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
