Nesting and Brood Ecology of Northern Bobwhite in Northern Bobwhnite Conservation Areas of Central Arkansas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nesting and Brood Ecology of Northern Bobwhite in Northern Bobwhnite Conservation Areas of Central Arkansas write by Jacob A. Cowan. This book was released on 2010. Nesting and Brood Ecology of Northern Bobwhite in Northern Bobwhnite Conservation Areas of Central Arkansas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. I radio collared and monitored 90 bobwhites on 15 privately-owned fields in Searcy County in 2008 and 2009. Twenty nests were located and nest success was compared between nests located in hayfields and non-hayfields. Vegetation was compared between nest sites and reference locations to characterize nesting habitat. Vegetation and invertebrate abundance were compared between sites in which broods foraged and reference sites in order to characterize brood-rearing habitat. Finally, I compared thermal characteristics between sites in which bobwhites foraged and reference sites. I intended to assess the ability of bobwhite restoration lands to supply nesting and brood-rearing habitat. I developed models which described nesting and brood-rearing habitat and used this model to classify vegetation samples from restoration areas as either one of the two habitat types or as unsuitable for either activity. A discriminant function used to discriminate between nest sites, foraging sites and unusable habitat correctly classified 68% of foraging sites, 75% of nest sites, 50% of transit sites, and 12% of reference sites. Sixty-five percent of restoration area samples were classified as foraging sites, 10% as nest sites and 25% as unusable. Although the discriminant function identified foraging and nesting habitat on restoration areas, bobwhite seldom used any of the restoration areas during the breeding season. Thus, restoration efforts appear to be ineffective in providing suitable habitat for breeding bobwhites. Low invertebrate biomass and abundance on restoration areas may play a role in lack of use by bobwhite. In restoration areas, habitat similar to nesting habitat was produced 2-4 years after burning of disking. Breeding habitat for bobwhites should contain both nesting and foraging habitat. Thus, management practices should provide both nesting and foraging habitat, with a majority of foraging habitat. As many of the fields that were heavily used by bobwhite were lightly to moderately grazed, I conclude that grazing at that level may be an appropriate management tool for bobwhite.
Bobwhite Production, Brood Ecology, and Brood Movements in Response to Habitat Restoration in Northern Arkansas
Bobwhite Production, Brood Ecology, and Brood Movements in Response to Habitat Restoration in Northern Arkansas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bobwhite Production, Brood Ecology, and Brood Movements in Response to Habitat Restoration in Northern Arkansas write by Kevin C. Labrum. This book was released on 2007. Bobwhite Production, Brood Ecology, and Brood Movements in Response to Habitat Restoration in Northern Arkansas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. -- than in unmanaged areas. Brood movements were inversely associated with arthropod abundance with greater brood movements occurring when arthropod abundances were low. Habitat factors positively associated with arthropod abundances were more forbs, more forb species/m2, and more grass species/m2. Restoration more often produced habitat structurally similar to brood rearing habitat than nesting habitat. However, availability of nesting habitat increased through time in restoration areas. Although restoration produced habitat that was structurally similar to brood rearing habitat, arthropod abundances were reduced by 63% in restored areas and I did not detect an increase in arthropod abundances between years in restored areas. Orthopteran biomass was reduced by 70% in restoration areas and was responsible for the differences in arthropod biomass. Restoration practices that produced habitat structurally similar to brood rearing habitat were a combination of burning, disking, and planting a variety of native warm season grasses. In contrast, planting or promoting development of a mono culture of grass species (regardless of native origin) did not produce habitat structurally similar to brood rearing or nesting habitat. Burn only treatments in fescue dominated fields produced approximately equal proportions of brood rearing and nesting habitat but brood rearing habitat changed into nesting habitat after only one growing season post treatment.
Spring Dispersal and Breeding Ecology of Northern Bobwhite in Southwest Ohio
Spring Dispersal and Breeding Ecology of Northern Bobwhite in Southwest Ohio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spring Dispersal and Breeding Ecology of Northern Bobwhite in Southwest Ohio write by Marjorie R. Liberati. This book was released on 2013. Spring Dispersal and Breeding Ecology of Northern Bobwhite in Southwest Ohio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Continuing support for programs like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) that establish permanent, managed grasslands remain important for bobwhite conservation in the Midwest. Vegetation succession coupled with anticipated declines in CRP enrollment would likely diminish usable space for bobwhites in the Midwest during the breeding season and negatively impact nest success. Bobwhites in the agricultural Midwest would benefit from having woody cover in proximity to grassland habitats during the breeding season but woody encroachment within grassland habitats where bobwhites nest should be managed.
Nesting Ecology of the Bobwhite in Southern Illinois
Nesting Ecology of the Bobwhite in Southern Illinois - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nesting Ecology of the Bobwhite in Southern Illinois write by Willard D. Klimstra. This book was released on 1975. Nesting Ecology of the Bobwhite in Southern Illinois available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Survival, Nesting Ecology, Mobility and Habitat Use of Northern Bobwhites During Spring and Summer
Survival, Nesting Ecology, Mobility and Habitat Use of Northern Bobwhites During Spring and Summer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Survival, Nesting Ecology, Mobility and Habitat Use of Northern Bobwhites During Spring and Summer write by Phillip Darren Pace. This book was released on 1998. Survival, Nesting Ecology, Mobility and Habitat Use of Northern Bobwhites During Spring and Summer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
