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Author: Jesse Michael Rubenstein Publisher: ISBN: Category : Geographic information systems Languages : en Pages : 184
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"The Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) is a passerine species whose populations have decreased internationally by approximately 66 percent since the 1960s, and by approximately 50 percent in New York. Major causes for declines are from loss of shrubland habitat and through hybridization with the Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera). This study utilized published data and expert opinion on Golden-winged Warbler (GWWA) habitat requirements to create habitat suitability models within the Western Finger Lakes Region on NY (NYSDEC Region 8) using a geographic information system. This region is an important area for migratory birds and is previously unstudied for GWWA. The concentration of potential GWWA habitat was identified within the central part of the study area, dubbed the 'Central Band,' comprising of areas within Livingston, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, and Yates counties. Sighting data from the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird Program (eBird) were utilized to test for the presence of GWWA within predicted habitat sites. BBS data were useful as an indicator of the model's effectiveness, with two-thirds of BBS routes containing GWWA sightings intersecting predicted prime habitat sites. Cornell's eBird sighting data were less effective as an indicator of the model's accuracy, as available eBird data may contain spatial bias through underreporting by fewer birders in areas of high habitat concentrations. This study also analyzed proximity of GWWA habitat to public and privately managed lands, offering specific locations where GWWA conservation plans, like NYSDEC's Young Tree Initiative, could effectively be implemented with a focus on breeding bird habitat. GWWA habitat conservation is significant, as their habitat is also utilized by other species of conservation concern, such as American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) and Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus), making GWWA a type of umbrella species within early successional habitat."--Abstract.
Author: Jesse Michael Rubenstein Publisher: ISBN: Category : Geographic information systems Languages : en Pages : 184
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"The Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) is a passerine species whose populations have decreased internationally by approximately 66 percent since the 1960s, and by approximately 50 percent in New York. Major causes for declines are from loss of shrubland habitat and through hybridization with the Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera). This study utilized published data and expert opinion on Golden-winged Warbler (GWWA) habitat requirements to create habitat suitability models within the Western Finger Lakes Region on NY (NYSDEC Region 8) using a geographic information system. This region is an important area for migratory birds and is previously unstudied for GWWA. The concentration of potential GWWA habitat was identified within the central part of the study area, dubbed the 'Central Band,' comprising of areas within Livingston, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, and Yates counties. Sighting data from the Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird Program (eBird) were utilized to test for the presence of GWWA within predicted habitat sites. BBS data were useful as an indicator of the model's effectiveness, with two-thirds of BBS routes containing GWWA sightings intersecting predicted prime habitat sites. Cornell's eBird sighting data were less effective as an indicator of the model's accuracy, as available eBird data may contain spatial bias through underreporting by fewer birders in areas of high habitat concentrations. This study also analyzed proximity of GWWA habitat to public and privately managed lands, offering specific locations where GWWA conservation plans, like NYSDEC's Young Tree Initiative, could effectively be implemented with a focus on breeding bird habitat. GWWA habitat conservation is significant, as their habitat is also utilized by other species of conservation concern, such as American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) and Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus), making GWWA a type of umbrella species within early successional habitat."--Abstract.
Author: Henry M. Streby Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1315355639 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 246
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Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera) are migratory songbirds that breed in temperate North America, primarily in the Great Lakes region with remnant populations throughout the Appalachian Mountains, and winter in Central and northern South America. Their breeding range has contracted dramatically in the Appalachian Mountains and many populations have dramatically declined, likely due to habitat loss, competition and interbreeding with Blue-winged Warblers (Vermivora pinus), andglobal climate change.. As a result of population declines in much of the eastern portion of their breeding range, Golden-winged Warblers are listed as endangered or threatened in 10 U.S. states and in Canada and have been petitioned for protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Published in collaboration with and on behalf of The American Ornithological Society, this volume in the highly-regarded Studies in Avian Biology series compiles extensive, current research on Golden-winged Warblers and summarizes what is known and identifies many remaining unknowns, providing a wealth of peer-reviewed science on which future research and listing decisions can be based.
Author: Kaitlyn Yoder Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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The Golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) is a Neotropical-Nearctic migratory species that breeds in the eastern United States, portions of the Great Lakes region, and eastern Canada. The Golden-winged warbler is an at-risk species that has been declining precipitously over the last 50 years [1,2]. Two primary causes of Golden-winged warbler decline are 1) the expanding range and resulting hybridization with a sister species, the Blue-winged warbler (Vermivora cyanoptera)[2], and 2) the loss of breeding habitat due to forest aging, disruption of disturbance regimes, and destruction of existing habitat due to human expansion [1]. This exploratory study applies conventionally sampled vegetation data, passerine survey data, and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery measurements as variables in occupancy models [3].The goals of the study were to evaluate the efficacy of UAVs for assessing remote Golden-winged warbler habitat and to compare UAV methods to vegetation methods of assessment using occupancy modeling. Thirty sample plots in north-central Pennsylvania were surveyed for vegetation composition and Golden-winged warbler occupancy. Each study plot in north-central Pennsylvania was flown with a UAV in 2018. These plots were selected because of a history of Golden-winged warbler monitoring by researchers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Avian and vegetation data have been collected in the study area since 2015. I used the IUP vegetation data and Golden-winged warbler detection history data for 2017 and 2018 to develop occupancy models in this study. UAV data were collected only for the 2018 field season by a Penn State field crew. The database for this study was structured in a stacked formation with 60 total records of occupancy, 30 records for each of the years 2017 and 2018. Four detection variables, 10 conventional vegetation variables and 15 UAV variables were used to model Golden-winged warbler occupancy. UAV variables were generated with Fragstats [4].Akaikes Information Criterion for small sample sizes (AICc) was used to assess model performance. Three variable sets were generated as a result of the statistical analysis, one with only conventional vegetation variables, a second with only UAV variables, and a third combining the variables from the top-ten models of each type. A top-ten model list was generated for each of the variable sets. The AICc and 95% confidence intervals of the beta coefficients are reported for each model. A comparison of the top model from each of the three sets provides some insight. The best model belonged to the combination model set (AICc = 0.00). The conventional vegetation measurements model set had the next lowest AICc value (AICc = 2.38), and the UAV-variable top model had a AICc = 6.36. Based on the AICc rule, if two models are within AICc = 2 of one another they are substantially similar[5], we concluded that the combination model is substantially better than those model sets that use only UAV or only conventional vegetation variables. The variables in the top combination variable model included class area in canopy trees, proportion of plot cover in fern spp., proportion of plot cover in grass spp., and proportion of plot cover in litter. Class area in canopy trees is a UAV variable, and the rest are vegetation variables. The variables in the top conventional vegetation measurements model included proportion of plot cover in canopy, proportion of plot cover in fern spp., proportion of plot cover in grass spp., and proportion of plot cover in litter. The variables in the top UAV model included class area in canopy trees, the clumpiness index of the shrubs and forbs class, the mean radius of gyration of the shrubs and forbs class, and the patch density of the canopy trees class.The 95% confidence intervals for the beta coefficient estimates in the three top models all overlapped zero, which means that we cannot draw any substantial conclusions from the individual variable relationships to occupancy within the models. However, we can conclude based on the AICc relationships of the top models that the study provides evidence that UAV variables, while perhaps not a replacement for conventional measurements, can provide valuable supplemental information to conventional vegetation measurements.
Author: Laurel Moulton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) is an early-successional specialist and one of the fastest declining songbird species in North America. This decline is related in part to habitat loss and degradation of contemporary forests; however, the consequences of anthropogenic disturbance on the species need further evaluation. Thus, I assessed occupancy, population growth, mating behaviors, and hybrid habitat use by Golden-winged Warblers across a range of disturbance levels within southeast Manitoba, Canada. Golden-winged Warblers consistently responded most strongly to disturbance at the 1-km scale. Forest patches with greater agricultural matrix cover at a 1-km scale were less likely to be occupied by Golden-winged Warblers. However, warblers did select for early-successional habitat created via resource extraction and other anthropogenic disturbances at this scale. Despite higher densities, productivity declined in landscapes with greater edge density because of Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) brood parasitism. Additionally, pairing success was reduced in patches with lower forest cover at a 1-km scale, although extra-pair paternity rates were not impacted by patch or landscape characteristics. These results suggest that proximate habitat cues used to select nesting sites may be decoupled from realized fitness in this system. Of the sub-populations I monitored, all showed negative population growth suggesting that anthropogenically disturbed forests may act as ecological traps for Golden-winged Warblers. The most productive habitat for Golden-winged Warbler will have high forest cover and minimal anthropogenic edges. Hybridization with Blue-winged Warblers (Vermivora cyanoptera) has also been suggested as a reason for population declines range-wide and I found that hybridization is now occurring in low levels in the Manitoba population. I found no difference in the habitat used by Golden-winged Warblers compared with hybrids at either a territory or landscape scale. The low proportion of hybrids found in Manitoba and the lack of a distinguishable difference in habitat use by Golden-winged Warblers and hybrids indicates that management efforts to encourage habitat use by Golden-winged Warblers while discouraging habitat use by Blue-winged Warbler are unlikely to be a successful conservation strategy. Instead, management efforts should focus on maintaining or creating early-successional habitats with minimal anthropogenic edges.
Author: Justin Andrew Lehman Publisher: ISBN: Category : Bird populations Languages : en Pages : 89
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Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) populations in the Appalachian Mountains have declined precipitously over the past 50 years. To better understand the decline, I studied two important aspects of the reproductive cycle: the nesting and post-fledging periods on reclaimed surface mines and recent timber harvest sites at North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area (NCWMA), Tennessee from 2013 to 2015. Nestlings were radio-marked with a 30-day transmitter two days before their scheduled fledge date and monitored daily once they fledged. Vegetation data were collected at the nest site and daily fledgling locations points along with paired random points. Vegetation characteristics most important during nest site selection were percent mature forest within 250 m of nest (selected against), percent Rubus spp. within 1m of nest (selected for) and vertical vegetation density (selected for). Fledglings did not select for or against any vegetation types during their first 3 days post-fledging. Shrub/sapling vegetation was most selected for during days 4-25. Fledglings avoided mature forest vegetation and herbaceous vegetation during the same time period. Nest survival over a 23-day nesting cycle was 0.354 ± 0.058 (SE) across all years. Vegetation characteristics most closely related to daily nest survival were percent forbs within 1 m of nest (positive relationship) and percent Rubus spp. within 1 m of nest (negative relationship). Fledgling survival for the entire 25-day post-fledging period was 0.289 ± 0.066, with most of the mortality occurring in the first 3 days (0.736 ± 0.039 daily survival rate). Snake predation accounted for 52% (16/31) of known deaths. The best supported model when individual habitat covariates were added included percent shrub-sapling vegetation within 250 m of post-fledging location (negative relationship). All other individual covariates had a delta AICc >2 when compared to the top model. Managing for Golden-winged Warbler nesting and ensuring fledgling survival. Compared to values reported elsewhere across the northern parts of the breeding range of the species, full season productivity at NCWMA of 0.66 offspring/pair may be insufficient to sustain populations without significant sources of immigration.reproduction must be a balance between meeting the needs for
Author: Katie Lee Percy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Golden-winged warbler Languages : en Pages : 103
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Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) populations in Appalachia have declined precipitously over the past 45 years. The primary objective of my study was to monitor the response of Golden-winged Warblers to prescribed fire treatments on reclaimed coal mines in the North Cumberland Wildlife Management Area, Tennessee. Presence-absence surveys were conducted on eight mountain-top study sites and nest searching/monitoring was conducted on two additional sites, 2009-2011. I expanded on previous research of Golden-winged Warbler territory and nest-site selection by determining differences within main effects between used and unused territory plots, as well as used and unused nest-sites. Of my two nest-searched sites, Ash Log and Massengale Mountains, only Massengale received annual prescribed fire treatments, 2007-2011. Thus, analysis was conducted separately for these two study sites. I also modeled the effects of fire history, as well as temporal and biotic factors, on the variation in daily nest survival rates (DSR). I documented a population increase on Massengale, and no change on four sites. Population decline on three unmanaged sites was correlated with a decrease in shrub and/or Rubus spp. cover, and an increase in sapling height. Territories contained more shrub cover>1 m in height on Massengale and Rubus spp. cover was greater inside territories than on unused plots on Ash Log. No nest-plot variables differed between nest and non-nest plots. The best-supported model of DSR included the effect of year, quadratic time, and the presence of Rubus spp. in nesting substrate. Nesting success was highly variable across years; 10.8 ± 5.4% in 2009, 57.5 ± 8.8% in 2010, and 29.3 ± 10.0% in 2011. With respect to time, nest survival was greatest during peak of nest initiation in early May, declined through the middle of the nesting season, and increased again through the latter half of the season (27 June). Nest success decreased with the presence of Rubus spp. in the nesting substrate. I detected no negative relationship between daily nest survival and fire history. My study suggests that prescribed burning on reclaimed coal mining land is a viable management practice for the creation and maintenance of Golden-winged Warbler breeding habitat.
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