Wetland selection by breeding and foraging black terns in the prairie pothole region of the United States

Condor

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-165

  Steen, Valerie A ^a,b   Powell, Abby N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Tern; Chlidonias niger; Habitat selection; Prairie pothole region; Random Forests; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CHLIDONIAS; CHLIDONIAS NIGER; LARIDAE;

EID: 84858403333     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2012.110097     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. BARRY, S., AND J. ELITH. 2006. Error and uncertainty in habitat models. Journal of Applied Ecology 43:413-423. (Pubitemid 43725546)
2. BEYER, H. L. [ONLINE]. 2004. Hawth's analysis tools for ArcGIS. (30 September 2009).
3. BEYERSBERGEN, G. W., N. D. NIEMUTH, AND M. R. NORTON. 2004. Northern prairie and parkland waterbird conservation plan: a plan associated with the Waterbird Conservation for the Americas initiative. Prairie Pothole Joint Venture, Denver, CO.
4. BREIMAN, L. 2001. Random forests. Machine Learning 45:5-32. (Pubitemid 32933532)
5. BROWN, M., AND J. J. DINSMORE. 1986. Implications of marsh size and isolation for marsh bird management. Journal of Wildlife Management 50:392-397. (Pubitemid 17251607)
6. CONNOR, E. F., AND E. D. MCCOY. 1979. The statistics and biology of the species-area relationship. American Naturalist 113:791-833.
7. COWARDIN, L. M., V. CARTER, F. C. GOLET, AND E. T. LAROE. 1979. Classification of wetlands and deepwater habitats of the United States. FWS/OBS-79/31. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC.
8. COWARDIN, L. M., T. L. SHAFFER, AND P. M. ARNOLD. 1995. Evaluations of duck habitat and estimation of duck population sizes with a remote-sensing-based system. U. S. Department of Interior, National Biological Service Biological Report 2.
9. CUTLER, D. R., T. C. EDWARDS JR., K. H. BEARD, A. CUTLER, K. T. HESS, J. GIBSON, AND J. J. LAWLER. 2007. Random forests for classification in ecology. Ecology 88:2783-2792. (Pubitemid 351345081)
10. DAHL, T. E., AND C. E. JOHNSON. 1991. Status and trends of wetlands in the conterminous United States, mid-1970's to mid-1980's. U. S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC.
11. DAHL, T. E., AND G. J. ALLORD. 1996. Technical aspects of wetlands-history of wetlands in the conterminous United States. National Water Summary, Wetland Resources: U. S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2425.
12. ESRI. 2006. Arc View version 9.2. Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA.
13. FAABORG, J., M. BRITTINGHAM, T. DONOVAN, AND J. BLAKE. 1993. Habitat fragmentation in the temperate zone: a perspective for managers, p. 331-38. In E. M. Finch and P. W. Stangel [EDS.], Status and management of neotropical migratory birds. U. S. Forest Service General Technical Report RM-229.
14. FAIRBAIRN, S. E., AND J. J. DINSMORE. 2001. Local and landscapelevel influences on wetland bird communities of the prairie pothole region of Iowa, USA. Wetlands 21:41-47. (Pubitemid 32325139)
15. FORTIN, M.-J., AND S. J. MELLES. 2009. Avian spatial responses to forest spatial heterogeneity at the landscape level: conceptual and statistical challenges, p. 137-60. In S. Miao, S. Caestenn, and M. Nungesser [EDS.], Real world ecology: large-scale and longterm case studies and methods. Springer, New York.
16. GOETZ, S. J., D. STEINBERG, M. G. BETTS, R. T. HOLMES, P. J. DORAN, R. DUBAYAH, AND M. HOFTON. 2010. Lidar remote sensing variables predict breeding habitat of a neotropical migrant bird. Ecology 91:1569-1576.
17. GRIFFIN, E., A. GLASER, G. FOGEL, K. JOHNSON, AND R. BROOKE. 2009. Corn ethanol and wildlife: how are policy and market driven increases in corn plantings affecting habitat and wildlife. M. Sc. thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
18. HEATH, S. R., E. H. DUNN, AND D. J. AGRO [ONLINE]. 2009. Black Tern (Chlidonias niger), no. 147. In A. Poole [ED.], The birds of North America online. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY.
19. HERWIG, B. R., K. D. ZTMMER, M. A. HANSON, M. L. KONSTI, J. A. YOUNK, R. W WRIGHT, S. R. VAUGHN, AND M. D. HAUSTEIN. 2010. Factors influencing fish distributions in shallow lakes in prairie and prairie-parkland regions of Minnesota, USA. Wetlands 30:609-619.
20. HOSMER, D. W., AND S. LEMESHOW. 2000. Applied logistic regression. Wiley, New York.
21. HOTHORN, T., K. HORNIK, AND A. ZEILEIS. 2006. Unbiased recursive partitioning: a conditional inference framework. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 15:651-674. (Pubitemid 44554201)
22. JENKS, G. F. 1967. The data model concept in statistical mapping. International Yearbook of Cartography 7:186-190.
23. JOHNSON, D. H. 1980. The comparison of usage and availability measurements for evaluating resource preference. Ecology 61:65-71.
24. JOHNSON, D. H. 2001. Habitat fragmentation effects on birds in grasslands and wetlands: a critique of our knowledge. Great Plains Research 11:211-231. (Pubitemid 34206872)
25. JOHNSON, R., AND K. HIGGINS. 1997. Wetland resources of eastern South Dakota. South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD.
26. JOHNSON, W. C, B. WERNER, G. R. GUNTENSPERGEN, R. A. VOLDSETH, B. MILLETT, D. E. NAUGLE, M. TULBURE, R. W. H. CARROLL, J. TRACY, AND C. OLAWSKY. 2010. Prairie wetland complexes as landscape functional units in a changing climate. BioScience 60:128-140.
27. JONES, J. 2001. Habitat selection studies in avian ecology: a critical review. Auk 118:557-562. (Pubitemid 32592946)
28. KANTRUD, H. A., G. L. KRAPU, AND G. A. SWANSON. 1989. Prairie basin wetlands of the Dakotas: a community profile. U. S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Research and Development, Washington, DC.
29. KRULL, J. N. 1970. Aquatic plant-macroinvertebrate associations and waterfowl. Journal of Wildlife Management 34:707-718.
30. LAWLER, J. J., D. WHITE, R. P. NEILSON, AND A. R. BLAUSTEIN. 2006. Predicting climate-induced range shifts: model differences and model reliability. Global Change Biology 12:1568-1584. (Pubitemid 44028465)
31. LINZ, G. M., D. L. BERGMAN, D. C. BLIXT, AND W. J. BLEIER. 1994. Response of Black Terns (Chlidonias niger) to glyphosateinduced habitat alterations on wetlands. Colonial Waterbirds 17:160-167.
32. LINZ, G. M., AND D. C. BLIXT. 1997. Black Terns benefit from cattail management in the northern Great Plains. Colonial Waterbirds 20:617-621.
33. MAGEE, P. A. 1993. Waterfowl management handbook. Detrital accumulation and processing in wetlands. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Leaflet 13.3.14.
34. MOSHER, B. C. 1986. Factors influencing reproductive success and nesting strategies in Black Terns. Ph. D. dissertation, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia.
35. MURKIN, H. R., R. M. KAMINSKI, AND R. D. TITMAN. 1982. Responses by dabbling ducks and aquatic invertebrates to an experimentally manipulated cattail marsh. Canadian Journal of Zoology 60:2324-2332. (Pubitemid 13286609)
36. NAUGLE, D. E., K. F. HIGGINS, M. E. ESTEY, R. R. JOHNSON, AND S. M. NUSSER. 2000. Local and landscape-level factors influencing Black Tern habitat suitability. Journal of Wildlife Management 64:253-260. (Pubitemid 30057499)
37. NAUGLE, D. E., K. F. HIGGINS, S. M. NUSSER, AND W. C. JOHNSON. 1999. Scale-dependent habitat use in three species of prairie wetland birds. Landscape Ecology 14:267-276. (Pubitemid 29337729)
38. NIEMUTH, N. D., AND J. W. SOLBERG. 2003. Response of waterbirds to number of wetlands in the prairie pothole region of North Dakota, USA. Waterbirds 26:233-238. (Pubitemid 37073904)
39. OJIMA, D. S., AND J. W. LACKETT. 2002. Preparing for a changing climate: the potential consequences of climate variability and change-central Great Plains. Report for the U. S. Global Change Research Program. Central Great Plains Steering Committee and Assessment Team, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
40. OMERNIK, J. M. 1987. Ecoregions of the conterminous United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77:118-125.
41. OPPEL, S., C. STROBL, AND F. HUETTMANN. 2009. Alternative methods to quantify variable importance in ecology. University of Munich, Munich, German Department of Statistics, Technical Report 65.
42. PETERJOHN, B. G., AND J. R. SAUER. 1997. Population trends of Black Terns from the North American Breeding Bird Survey, 1966-1996. Colonial Waterbirds 20:566-573.
43. RINGELMAN, J. K. [ED.]. 2005. Prairie Habitat Joint Venture 2005 implementation plan. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, CO.
44. SAMSON, F., AND F. KNOPF. 1994. Prairie conservation in North America. BioScience 44:418-421.
45. SAUER, J. R., J. E. HINES, AND J. FALLON. 2008. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, results and analysis 1966-2007, version 5.15.2008. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD.
46. SHEALER, D. A. 2003. Annual survival, breeding site fidelity, and natal recruitment of Black Terns breeding in southeastern Wisconsin, 1999-2003. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, Mayville, WI.
47. SHEALER, D. A., J. M. BUZZELL, AND J. P. HEIAR. 2006. Effect of floating nest platforms on the breeding performance of Black Terns. Journal of Field Ornithology 77:184-194. (Pubitemid 43725389)
48. SOJDA, R. S., AND K. L. SOLBERG. 1993. Waterfowl management handbook. Management and control of cattail. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Leaflet 13.4.13.
49. STEWART, R. E., AND H. A. KANTRUD. 1971. Classification of natural ponds and lakes in the glaciated prairie region. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Resource Publication 92.
50. STROBL, C, A. L. BOULESTEIX, T. KNEIB, T. AUGUSTIN, AND A. ZEILEIS. 2008. Conditional variable importance for random forests. BMC Bioinformatics 9:307.
51. STROBL, C, A. L. BOULESTEIX, A. ZEILEIS, AND T. HOTHORN. 2007. Bias in random forest variable importance measures: illustrations, sources and a solution. BMC Bioinformatics 8:25.
52. U. S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND CANADIAN WILDLIFE SERVICE. 1986. North American waterfowl management plan-a strategy for cooperation. U. S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, DC, and Environment Canada, Canadian Wildlife Service, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
53. VAN DER WINDEN, J. 2005. Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) conservation in the Netherlands-areview. Vogelwelt 126:187-193.
54. ZIMMER, K. D., M. A. HANSON, AND M. G. BUTLER. 2000. Factors influencing invertebrate communities in prairie wetlands: a multivariate approach. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57:76-85. (Pubitemid 30205699)