Prairie wetland complexes as landscape functional units in a changing climate

BioScience

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 128-140

  Johnson, W Carter ^a   Werner, Brett ^b   Guntenspergen, Glenn R ^c   Voldseth, Richard A ^a   Millett, Bruce ^a   Naugle, David E ^d   Tulbure, Mirela ^a   Carroll, Rosemary W H ^e   Tracy, John ^f   Olawsky, Craig ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST OLAF COLLEGE   (United States)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Hydrology; Numeric models; Prairie pothole wetlands; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

ANATIDAE;

EID: 77249097405     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/bio.2010.60.2.7     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Anderson MG, Sorenson LG. 2001. Global climate change and waterfowl: Adaptation in the face of uncertainty. Transactions of the North. American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 66: 307-319.
2. Austin JE, Miller M. 1995. Northern pintail (Anas acuta). In Poole A, cd. The Birds of North America Online. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. (3 December 2009; http://bna.birds.Cornell.edu/bna)
3. Battin J. 2004. When good animals love bad habitats: Ecological traps and the conservation of animal populations. Conservation Biology 18: 1482-1491. (Pubitemid 39651339)
4. Bellrose FC. 1980. Ducks, Geese, and Swans of North America. 3rd ed. Stackpole.
5. BrownM,DinsmoreJJ.1986. Implicationsofmarshsizeandisolationformarshbirdmanagement. JournalofWildlifeManagement50:392-397.(Pubitemid17251607)
6. Burkett VR, et al. 2005. Nonlinear dynamics in ecosystem, response to climatic change: Case studies and policy implications. Ecological Complexity 2: 357-394.
7. Carroll R, Pohll G, Tracy J, Winter TC, Smith R. 2005. Simulation of a semipermanent wetland basin in the Cottonwood Lake Area, east-central North Dakota. Journal of Hydrologie Engineering 10: 70-84. (Pubitemid 40102824)
8. Clair TA. 1998. Canadian freshwater wetlands and climate change. Climatic Change 40: 163-165.
9. Conley FM, van der Kamp G. 2001. Monitoring the hydrology of Canadian prairie wetlands to detect the effects of climate change and land use changes. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 67: 195-215.
10. Covich.AP,FritzSC,LambPJ,MarzolfRD,MatthewsWJ,PoianiKA,PrepasEE, RichmanMB,WinterTC.1997. PotentialeffectsofclimatechangeonaquaticecosystemsoftheGreatPlainsofNorthAmeric a.HydrologicalProcesses11:993-1021.(Pubitemid127626205)
11. Dahl TE. 1990. Wetlands losses in the United States 1780's to 1980's. US Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory Project.
12. Fairbairn SE, Dinsmore JJ. 2001. Local and land scape-level influences on wetland bird communities of the prairie pothole region of Iowa, USA. Wetlands 21: 41-47.
13. Galley KEM, ed. 2004. Global Climate Change and Wildlife in North America. The Wildlife Society. Technical Review 04-12
14. Gleason RA, Laubhan MK, Euliss NH. 2008. Ecosystem Services Derived from Wetland Conservation Practices in the United States Prairie Pothole Region with an Emphasis on the US Department of Agriculture Conservation Reserve and Wetlands Reserve Programs. US Geological Survey. Professional Paper 1745.
15. HoekmanST,MillsLS,HowerterDW,DevriesJH,BallIJ.2002. Sensitivityanalysisofthelifecycleofmid-continentmallards. JournalofWildlifeManagement66:883-900.(Pubitemid34915245)
16. [IPCC] Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2007. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Cambridge University Press.
17. Johnson RR, Higgins KF. 1997. Wetland Resources of Eastern South Dakota. South Dakota State University.
18. JohnsonWC,BoettcherSE,PoianiKA,GuntenspergenGR.2004. Influenceofweatherextremesonthewaterlevelsofglaciatedprairiewetlands.Wetlands24: 385-398.(Pubitemid41350373)
19. JohnsonWC,MillettBV,GilmanovT,VoldsethRA,GuntenspergenGR,NaugleDE.2005. Vulnerabilityofnorthernprairiewetlands-climatechange.BioScience55:863-872. (Pubitemid41443700)
20. Keddy PA, Fraser LH, Solomeshch AI, Junk WJ, Campbell DR, Arroyo MTK, Alho CJR. 2009. Wet and wonderful: The world's largest wetlands are conservation priorities. BioScience 59: 39-51.
21. Krapu GL, Pietz PJ, Brandt DA, Cox RR Jr. 2006. Mallard brood movements, wetland use, and duckling survival during and following a prairie drought. Journal of Wildlife Management 70: 1436-1444.
22. Kundzewicz ZW, Mata LJ, Arnell N, Döll P, Kabat P, Jiménez B, Miller K, Oki T, Sen Z, Shiklomanov I. 2007. Freshwater resources and their management. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Cambridge University Press.
23. LarsonD.1995.Effectsofclimateonnumbersofnorthernprairiewetlands. ClimaticChange30:169-180.(Pubitemid26441753)
24. Magnuson JJ, et al. 2000. Historical trends in lake and river ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere. Science 289: 1743-1746.
25. [MEA] Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Wetlands and Water Synthesis. World Resources Institute.
26. Millett BV, Johnson WC, Guntenspergen GR. 2009. Climate trends of the North American prairie pothole region 1906-2000. Climatic Change 93: 243-267.
27. Mitsch WJ, Gosselink JG. 2007. Wetlands. 4th ed. Wiley.
28. Murkin H, van der Valk AG, Clark WR. 2000. Prairie Wetland Ecology: The Contribution of the Marsh Ecology Research Program. Iowa State University Press.
29. Murphy-Klassen HM, Underwood TJ, Sealy SG, Czyrnyj AA. 2005. Longterm trends in spring arrival dates of migrant birds at Delta Marsh, Manitoba, in relation to climate change. The Auk 122: 1130-1148.
30. Naugle DE, Higgins KF, Nusser SM, Johnson WC. 1999. Scale-dependent habitat use in three species of prairie wetland birds. Landscape Ecology 14: 267-276.
31. Naugle DE, Johnson RR, Estey ME, Higgins KF. 2001. A landscape approach to conserving wetland bird habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region of eastern South Dakota. Wetlands 21: 1-17.
32. Ojima DS, Lackett JM. 2002. Preparing for a Changing Climate: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change-Central Great Plains. Central Great Plains Steering Committee and Assessment Team, Colorado State University.
33. Poiani KA, Johnson WC. 1991.Global warming and prairie wetlands: Consequences for waterfowl habitat. BioScience 41: 611-618.
34. -. 1993. A spatial simulation model of hydrology and vegetation dynamics in semi-permanent prairie wetlands. Ecological Applications 3: 279-293.
35. PoianiKA,Johnson.WC,WinterTC,SwansonG.1996. Climatechangeandnorthernprairiewetlands:Simulationsoflong-termdynamics. LimnologyandOceanography41:871-881.(Pubitemid26381065)
36. Price JS. 1994. Water level regimes in prairie sloughs. Canadian Water Resources Journal 19: 95-106.
37. Reynolds RE, ShafferTL, Loesch CR, Cox RR Jr. 2006. The farm bill and duck production in the prairie pothole region: Increasing the benefits. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34: 963-974.
38. Schlaepfer MA, et al. 2002. Ecological and evolutionary traps. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 17: 474-480.
39. Sorenson LG, Goldberg R, Root TL, Anderson MG. 1998. Potential effects of global warming on waterfowl populations breeding in the northern Great Plains. Climatic Change 40: 343-369. (Pubitemid 28476507)
40. Stewart RE, Kantrud HA. 1978. Classification of Natural Ponds and Lakes in the Glaciated Prairie Region. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, US Fish and Wildlife Service. Resource Publication 92.
41. Swanson GA, Meyer MI, Adomaitis VA. 1985. Foods consumed by breeding mallards on wetlands of south-central North Dakota. Journal of Wildlife Management 49: 197-203.
42. Swanson GA, Euliss NH, Hanson B, Mushet DM. 2003. Dynamics of a prairie pothole wetland complex: Implications for wetland management. Pages 55-94 in Winter TC, ed. Hydrological, Chemical, and Biological Characteristics of a Prairie Pothole Wetland. Complex under Highly Variable Climate Conditions-the Cottonwood Lake Area, East-Central North Dakota. US Geological Survey. Professional Paper 1675.
43. vanderKampG,HayashiM.1998. Thegroundwaterrechargefunctionofsmallwetlandsinthesemi-aridnorthernprairies. GreatPlainsResearch8:39-56.(Pubitemid28508111)
44. -. 2009. Groundwater-wetland ecosystem interaction in the semiarid glaciated plains of North America. Hydrogeology Journal 17: 203-214.
45. van der Kamp G, Hayashi M, Gallen D. 2003. Comparing the hydrology of grassed and cultivated catchments in the semi-arid Canadian prairies. Hydrological Processes 17: 559-575. (Pubitemid 36251677)
46. van der Valk AG. 2005. Water-level fluctuations in North American prairie wetlands. Hydrobiologia 539: 171-188.
47. van der Valk AG, Davis CB. 1978. The role of seed banks in the vegetation dynamics of prairie glacial marshes. Ecology 59: 322-335.
48. Voldseth RA, Johnson WC, Gilmanov T, Guntenspergen GR, Millett BV. 2007. Model estimates of land-use effects on water levels of northern prairie wetlands. Ecological Applications 17: 527-540. (Pubitemid 46607411)
49. Voldseth RA, Johnson WC, Guntenspergen GR, Gilmanov T, Millett B. 2009. Adaptation of farming practices could buffer effects of climate change on northern prairie wetlands. Wetlands 29: 635-647.
50. Wagner G. 1997. Studies of the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) in Alberta. Alberta Environmental Protection, Wildlife Management Division, Wildlife Status Report no. 9.
51. WellerMW.1988. Issuesandapproachesinassessingcumulativeimpactsonwaterbirdhabitatinwetlands. EnvironmentalManagement12:695-701.(Pubitemid19325606)
52. -. 1994. Freshwater Marshes. 3rd ed. University of Minnesota Press.
53. -. 1999. Wetland Birds. Habitat Resources and Conservation Implications. Cambridge University Press.
54. Weller MW, Fredrickson LH. 1974. Avian ecology of a managed glacial marsh. Living Bird 12: 269-291.
55. Weller MW, Spatcher CE. 1965. Role of Habitat in the Distribution and Abundance of Marsh Birds. Iowa State University Agricultural and Home Economics Experimental Station. Special Report no. 43.
56. Winter TC. 2000. The vulnerability of wetlands to climate change: A hydrologic landscape perspective. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 36: 305-311.
57. Winter TC, Rosenberry DO. 1995. The interaction of groundwater with prairie potholes in the Cottonwood. Lake area, east-central North. Dakota, 1979-1990. Journal of Hydrology 15: 193-221.
58. Winter TC, Woo MK. 1990. Hydrology of lakes and wetlands. Pages 159-187 in Wolman MG, Riggs HC, eds. Surface Water Hydrology: The Geology of North America, vol.1. Geological Society of America.
59. Wolfram S. 1999. The Mathematica Book. 4th ed. Cambridge University Press.