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Population Demography of Northern Spotted OwlsEditors: Eric D Forsman
Studies In Avian Biology 40
Cooper Ornithological Society
2011
"The Northern Spotted Owl, a threatened species that occurs in coniferous forests in the western United States, has become a well-known environmental symbol. But how is the owl actually faring? This book contains the results of a long-term effort by a large group of leading researchers to document population trends of the Northern Spotted Owl. The study was conducted on 11 areas in the Pacific Northwest from 1985 to 2008, and its objectives were both to evaluate population trends and to assess relationships between reproductive rates and recruitment of owls and covariates such as weather, habitat, and the invasion of a closely related species, the Barred Owl. Among other findings, the study shows that fecundity was declining in five populations, stable in three, and increasing in three areas. Annual apparent survival rates of adults were declining in 10 out of 11 areas. This broad, synthetic work provides the most complete and up-to-date picture of the population status of this inconspicuous forest owl, which is at the center of the complex and often volatile debate regarding the management of forest lands in the western United States."
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Ecology, Conservation, and Management of GrouseEditors: Brett K Sandercock, Kathy Martin and Gernot Segelbacher
Studies In Avian Biology 39
Cooper Ornithological Society
2011
"Grouse - an ecologically important group of birds that include capercaillie, prairie chickens, and ptarmigan - are distributed throughout the forests, grasslands, and tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. Today, many grouse populations are in decline, and the conservation and management of these charismatic birds is becoming a global concern. This volume summarizes current knowledge of grouse biology in 25 chapters contributed by 80 researchers from field studies around the world. Organized in four sections - Spatial Ecology, Habitat Relationships, Population Biology, and Conservation and Management - the chapters offer important 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. The chapters explore topics including the impacts of climate change, energy development, and harvest, and give new evidence for life-history changes in response to human activities."
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Greater Sage-Grouse: Ecology and Conservation of a Landscape Species and its HabitatsEditors: S.T. Knick, and J.W. Connelly
Studies In Avian Biology 38
Cooper Ornithological Society
2011
Contents:
- Greater Sage-Grouse and sagebrush: an introduction to the landscape
- Historical development, principal federal legislation, and current management of sagebrush habitats: implications for conservation
- The legal status of Greater Sage-Grouse: organizational structure of planning efforts
- Characteristics and dynamics of Greater Sage-Grouse populations
- Characteristics of Greater Sage-Grouse habitats: a landscape species at micro- and macro scales
- Molecular insights into the biology of Greater Sage-Grouse
- Predation on Greater Sage-Grouse: facts, process, and effects
- Harvest management for Greater Sage-Grouse: a changing paradigm for game bird management
- Parasites and infectious diseases of Greater Sage-Grouse
- West Nile Virus ecology in sagebrush habitat and impacts on Greater Sage-Grouse populations
- Characteristics of sagebrush habitats and limitations to long-term conservation
- Pre-Euro-American and recent fire in sagebrush ecosystems
- Ecological influence and pathways of land use in sagebrush
- Influences of the human footprint on sagebrush landscape patterns: implications for Sage-Grouse conservation
- Influences of free-roaming equids on sagebrush ecosystems, with a focus on Greater Sage-Grouse
- Greater Sage-Grouse population dynamics and probability of persistence
- Connecting pattern and process in Greater Sage-Grouse populations and sagebrush landscapes
- Influences of environmental and anthropogenic features on Greater Sage-Grouse populations, 1997-2007
- Factors associated with extirpation of sage-grouse
- Greater Sage-Grouse as an umbrella species for shrubland passerine birds: a multiscale assessment
- Energy development and conservation tradeoffs: systematic planning for Greater Sage-Grouse in their eastern range
- Response of Greater Sage-Grouse to the Conservation Reserve Program in Washington state
- Restoring and rehabilitating sagebrush habitats
- Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse: a synthesis of current trends and future management
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Birds of the US-Mexico Borderland: Distribution, Ecology, and ConservationEditors: J.M. Ruth, T. Brush, and D.J. Krueper
Studies In Avian Biology 37
Cooper Ornithological Society
2008
Contents:
- Additions to the Breeding Avifauna of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas
- Avifaunal Changes in Big Bend National Park, Texas
- Distribution and Status of Breeding Landbirds in Northern Sonora Mexico
- The Distribution and Status of Royal Terns on The Pacific Coast of Southern California and Baja California, Mexico
- Habitat Use of Wintering Bird Communities in Sonora, Mexico: The Importance of Riparian Habitats
- Population Trends of Yuma Clapper Rails in the Colorado River Delta, Mexico
- Densities, Species Richness and Habitat Relationships of the Avian Community in the Colorado River, Mexico
- Influence of Desertification on Site Occupancy by Grassland and Shrubland Birds
- During the Non-Breeding Period in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert
- Winter Diets and Seed Selection of Granivorous Birds in Southwestern New Mexico
- Distribution and Abundance of Breeding Arizona Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum ammolegus) in The Southwestern United States: Past,
Present, and Future
- Seasonal Passerine Migratory Movements over the Arid Southwest
- Applied Conservation Planning and Implementation in the US-Mexico Borderlands
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Status of the Red Knot (Calidris canutus rufa) in the Western HemisphereEditors: L.J. Niles, H.P. Sitters, A.D. Dey, P.W. Atkinson, A.J. Baker, K.A. Bennett, R. Carmona, K.E. Clark, N.A. Clark, C. Espoz, P.M. González, B.A. Harrington, D.E. Hernández, K.S. Kalasz, R.G. Lathrop, R.N. Matus, C.D.T. Minton, R.I.G. Morrison, M.K. Peck, W. Pitts, R.A. Robinson, and I.L.
Serrano
Studies In Avian Biology 36
Cooper Ornithological Society
2008
"Comprises sections on taxonomy; physical description; distribution in time and space; biology and natural history; habitat; population size and trends; threats; summary of land ownership and exiting habitat protection; past and current conservation and habitat management activities; monitoring effects and management activities; conservation goals and the surveys, monitoring research, and management needed to support them; and an update on the status of the Red Knot."
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Foraging Dynamics of Seabirds in the Eastern Tropical Pacific OceanEditors: L.B. Spear, D.G. Ainley, and W.A. Walker
Studies In Avian Biology 35
Cooper Ornithological Society
2007
"A study of the feeding ecology of the marine avifauna of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean during a nine year period, 1983-1991. This is one of few studies on the diet of an entire marine avifauna, including resident breeders and non-breeders as well as passage migrants, and is the first such study for the tropical ocean."
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Beyond Mayfield: Measurements of Nest-Survival DataEditors: S.L. Jones and G.R. Geupel
Studies In Avian Biology 34
Cooper Ornithological Society
2007
Contents:
- Methods of estimating nest success: an historical tour
- The ABCs of nest survival: theory and application from a biostatistical perspective
- Extending methods for modeling heterogeneity in nest-survival data using generalized mixed models
- A smoothed residual based goodness-of-fit statistic for nest-survival models
- The analysis of covariates in multi-fate Markov chain nest-failure models
- Estimating nest success: a guide to the methods
- Modeling avian nest survival in program MARK
- Making meaningful estimates of nest survival with model-based methods
- Analyzing avian nest survival in forests and grasslands: a comparison of the Mayfield and logistic-exposure methods
- Comparing the effects of local, landscape, and temporal factors on forest bird nest survival using logistic-exposure models
- The relationship between predation and nest concealment in mixed-grass prairie passerines: an analysis using program MARK
- The influence of habitat on nest survival of Snowy and Wilson's plovers in the lower Laguna Madre region of Texas
- Bayesian statistics and the estimation of nest-survival rates
- Modeling nest-survival data: recent improvements and future directions.
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At-Sea Distribution and Abundance of Seabirds off Southern California: A 20-Year ComparisonEditors: J.W. Mason, G.J. McChesney, W.R. McIver, H.R. Carter, J.Y. Takekawa, R.T. Golightly, J.T. Ackerman, D.L. Orthmeyer, W.M. Perry, J.L. Yee, M.O. Pierson, and M.D. McCrary
Studies In Avian Biology 33
Cooper Ornithological Society
2007
Comprises three main sections; research methods, species accounts and supporting data.
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Terrestrial Vertebrates of Tidal Marshes: Evolution, Ecology, and ConservationEditors: R. Greenberg, J.E. Maldonado, S. Droege, and M.V. McDonald
Studies In Avian Biology 32
Cooper Ornithological Society
2006
The contents are as follows.
- Tidal marshes: Home for the few and the highly selected
- The quaternary geography and biogeography of tidal saltmarshes
- Diversity and endemism in tidal-marsh vertebrates
- Evolution and conservation of tidal-marsh vertebrates: molecular approaches
- Avian nesting response to tidal-marsh fl ooding: literature review and a case for adaptation in the Red-winged Blackbird
- Flooding and predation: trade-offs in the nesting ecology of tidal-marsh sparrows
- Osmoregulatory biology of saltmarsh passerines
- Social behavior of North American tidal-marsh vertebrates
- Trophic adaptations in sparrows and other vertebrates of tidal marshes
- Breeding birds of northeast saltmarshes: habitat use and conservation
- Impacts of marsh management on coastal-marsh birds habitats
- Environmental threats to tidal-marsh vertebrates of the San Francisco Bay estuary
- Are southern California's fragmented salt marshes capable of sustaining endemic bird populations?
- The diamondback terrapin: the biology, ecology, cultural history, and conservation status of an obligate estuarine turtle
vHigh tides and rising seas: potential effects on estuarine waterbirds
- The impact of invasive plants on tidal-marsh vertebrate species: common reed (Phragmites australis) and smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) as case studies
- Tidal saltmarsh fragmentation and persistence of San Pablo Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia samuelis): assessing benefits of wetland restoration in San Francisco Bay
- Multiple-scale habitat relationships of tidal-marsh breeding birds in the San Francisco Bay estuary
- The Clapper Rail as an indicator species of estuarine-marsh health
- A unified strategy for monitoring changes in abundance of birds associated with North American tidal marshes
- An agenda for research on the ecology, evolution, and conservation of tidal-marsh vertebrates
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The Northern Goshawk: a Technical Assessment of its Status, Ecology, and ManagementEditors: M.L. Morrison
Studies In Avian Biology 31
Cooper Ornithological Society
2006
The contents are as follows.
- Demography of Northern Goshawks in Northern Arizona, 1991–1996
- Ecology and habitat of breeding Northern Goshawks in the inland Pacific Northwest: a summary of research in the 1990s
- Prey and weather factors associated with temporal variation in Northern
- Goshawk reproduction in the Sierra Nevada, California
- Occupancy, productivity, turnover, and dispersal of Northern Goshawks in portions of the northeastern Great Basin
- Ecology of The Northern Goshawk in the New York-New Jersey Highlands
- Habitat, food habits, and productivity of Northern Goshawks nesting in Connecticut
- Northern Goshawk ecology in the western Great Lakes region
- Goshawks in Canada: population responses to harvesting and the appropriateness of using standard bird monitoring techniques to assess their status
- Ecology of the Northern Goshawk in Fennoscandia
- Population limitation in the Northern Goshawk in Europe: a review with case studies
- Northern Goshawk food habits and goshawk prey species habitats
- Diet, prey delivery rates, and prey biomass of Northern Goshawks in east-central Arizona
- Winter movement and habitat use of Northern Goshawks breeding in Utah
- Satellite telemetry of Northern Goshawks breeding in Utah - I. Annual movements
- Satellite telemetry of Northern Goshawks breeding in Utah - II. Annual habitats
- A review and evaluation of factors limiting Northern Goshawk populations
- A design for monitoring Northern Goshawks at the bioregional scale
- Resource selection function models as tools for regional conservation planning for Northern Goshawk in Utah
- An ecosystem-based conservation strategy for the Northern Goshawk
- Goshawk status and management: what do we know, what have we done, where are we going?
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