Nest occurrence and survival of King Rails in fire-managed coastal marshes in North Carolina and Virginia

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 355-366

  Rogers, Samantha L ^a   Collazo, Jaime A ^a   Drew, Cristina A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire management; Multistate occupancy; Nest survival; Nest video surveillance; Rallus elegans

Indexed keywords

INVERTEBRATA; RALLUS ELEGANS;

EID: 84888126049     PISSN: 02738570     EISSN: 15579263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jofo.12035     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Burger, J., J. K. Shisler, and F. R. Lesser . 1982. Avian utilization on six salt marshes in New Jersey. Biological Conservation 23: 187-212.
2. Burnham, K. P., and D. R. Anderson . 2002. Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY.
3. Conway, C. J. 2008. Standardized North American marsh bird monitoring protocols. Wildlife Research Report #2008-01, U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Tucson, AZ.
4. Conway, C. J. 2009. Habitat measurement protocol for marsh bird surveys. U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Tucson, AZ.
5. Conway, C. J., and J. P. Gibbs . 2011. Summary of intrinsic and extrinsic factors affecting detection probability of marsh birds. Wetlands 31: 403-411.
6. Conway, C. J., C. P. Nadeau, and L. Piest . 2010. Fire helps restore disturbance regime to benefit rare and endangered marsh birds endemic to the Colorado River. Ecological Applications 20: 2024-2035.
7. Cooper, T. R. 2008. King Rail conservation action plan. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fort Snelling, MN.
8. Dahl, T. E. 2000. Status and trends of wetlands in the conterminous United States 1986 to 1997. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.
9. Dahl, T. E. 2006. Status and trends of wetlands in the conterminous United States 1998 to 2004. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C.
10. De Szalay, F. E., and V. H. Resh . 1997. Responses of wetland invertebrates and plants important in waterfowl diets to burning and mowing of emergent vegetation. Wetlands 17: 149-156.
11. Dinsmore, S. J., G. C. White, and F. L. Knopf . 2002. Advanced techniques for modeling avian nest survival. Ecology 83: 3476-3488.
12. Donovan, T. M., and J. Hines [online]. 2007. Exercises in occupancy modeling and estimation. University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. (6 February 2011).
13. Drew, C. A., and J. A. Collazo . 2011. Expert knowledge as a foundation for the management of secretive species and their habitat. In: Expert knowledge and its application in landscape ecology (A. H. Perera, C. A. Drew, and C. J. Johnson, eds.), pp. 87-108. Springer, New York, NY.
14. Franklin, A. B., R. J. Gutierrez, J. D. Nichols, M. E. Seamans, G. C. White, G. S. Zimmerman, J. E. Hines, T. E. Munton, W. S. LaHaye, J. A. Blakesley, G. N. Steger, B. R. Noon, D. W. H. Shaw, J. J. Keane, T. L. McDonald, and S. Britting . 2004. Population dynamics of the California Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis): a meta-analysis. Ornithological Monographs 54: 1-54.
15. Gabrey, S. W., and A. D. Afton . 2001. Plant community composition and biomass in Gulf Coast Chenier Plain marshes: responses to winter burning and structural marsh management. Environmental Management 27: 281-293.
16. Gabrey, S. W., B. C. Wilson, and A. D. Afton . 2002. Success of artificial bird nests in burned Gulf Coast Chenier Plain marshes. Southwestern Naturalist 47: 532-538.
17. Hines, J. E. 2006. PRESENCE Software to estimate patch and occupancy rates and related parameters. U.S. Geological Survey, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD.
18. Hunter, W. C., W. Golder, S. Melvin, and J. Wheeler . 2006. Southeast United States regional waterbird conservation plan. Waterbird Conservation for the Americas, Washington, D.C.
19. Lemmon, P. E. 1956. A spherical densiometer for estimating forest overstory density. Forest Science 2: 314-320.
20. MacKenzie, D. I., J. D. Nichols, G. B. Lachman, S. Droege, J. A. Royle, and C. A. Langtimm . 2002. Estimating site occupancy rates when detection probabilities are less than one. Ecology 83: 2248-2255.
21. MacKenzie, D. I., J. D. Nichols, J. A. Royle, K. H. Pollock, L. L. Bailey, and J. E. Hines . 2006. Occupancy estimation and modeling: inferring patterns and dynamics of species occurrence. Elsevier, San Diego, CA.
22. MacKenzie, D. I., J. D. Nichols, M. E. Seamans, and R. J. Gutierrez . 2009. Modeling species occurrence dynamics with multiple states and imperfect detection. Ecology 90: 823-835.
23. Martin, T. E. 1989. Breeding productivity considerations: what are the appropriate habitat features for management? In: Ecology and conservation of Neotropical migrant landbirds (J. M. Hagan III and D. W. Johnston, eds.), pp. 455-473. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
24. Meanley, B. 1969. Natural history of the King Rail, number 67. In: North American Fauna. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, Washington, D.C.
25. Mitchell, L. R., S. Gabrey, P. P. Marra, and R. M. Erwin . 2006. Impacts of marsh management on coastal-marsh bird habitats. Studies in Avian Biology 32: 155-175.
26. Mueller-Dombois, D. 1974. Aims and methods of vegetation ecology. John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.
27. Nichols, J. D., J. E. Hines, D. I. MacKenzie, M. E. Seamans, and R. J. Gutierrez . 2007. Occupancy estimation and modeling with multiple states and state uncertainty. Ecology 88: 1395-1400.
28. Nichols, J. D., J. E. Hines, D. I. MacKenzie, M. E. Seamans, and R. J. Gutierrez, and B. K. Williams . 2006. Monitoring for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 1395-1400.
29. Nyman, J. A., and R. H. Chabreck . 1995. Fire in coastal marshes: history and recent concerns. In: Fire in wetlands: a management perspective (S. I. Cerulean and R. T. Engstrom, eds.), pp. 134-141. Proceedings of the 19th Tall Timbers fire ecology conference, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL.
30. Pierce, A. J., and K. Pobpraset . 2007. A portable system for continuous monitoring of bird nests using digital video recorders. Journal of Field Ornithology 78: 322-328.
31. Pierluissi, S., and S. L. King . 2008. Relative nest density, nest success, and site occupancy of King Rails in southwestern Louisiana rice fields. Waterbirds 31: 530-540.
32. Poole, A. F., L. R. Bevier, C. A. Marantz, and B. Meanley [online]. 2005. King Rail (Rallus elegans). In: The birds of North America online (A. Poole, ed.). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. (1 March 2011).
33. Reid, F. A. 1989. Differential habitat use by waterbirds in a managed wetland complex. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
34. Richardson, T. W., T. Gardali, and S. H. Jenkins . 2009. Review and meta-analysis of camera effects of avian nest success. Journal of Wildlife Management 73: 287-293.
35. Rogers, S. L. 2011. King Rail (Rallus elegans) occupancy, reproductive activity and success in fire-managed coastal marshes in North Carolina and Virginia. M.S. thesis, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.
36. Rogers, S. L., J. A. Collazo, and C. A. Drew . 2013. King Rail (Rallus elegans) occupancy and abundance in fire managed coastal marshes in North Carolina and Virginia. Waterbirds 36: 179-188.
37. Rush, S. A., E. C. Soehren, M. S. Woodrey, C. L. Graydon, and R. J. Cooper . 2009. Occupancy of select marsh birds within northern Gulf of Mexico marsh: current estimates and projected change. Waterbirds 29: 798-808.
38. SAS, Institute. 2009. JMP: Release 8.0.1. SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC.
39. Schafale, M. P., and A. S. Weakley . 1990. Classification of the natural communities of North Carolina: third approximation. North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, Division of Parks and Recreation, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Raleigh, NC.
40. Sikes, P. J. 1984. Effects of management practices on habitat use of King and Clapper rails on the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge, Texas. M.S. thesis, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX.
41. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2008. Comprehensive conservation plan: Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge, Currituck County, North Carolina, Virginia Beach, Virginia. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 4, Atlanta, GA.
42. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2010. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge comprehensive conservation plan. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 5, Hadley, MA.
43. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [online]. 2012. National Wetlands Inventory. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C. (30 June 2012).
44. U.S. Geological Survey, Southeast Gap Analysis Project (SE-GAP) [online]. 2010. (1 August 2012).
45. Van Horne, B. 1983. Density as a misleading indicator of habitat quality. Journal of Wildlife Management 47: 893-901.
46. White, G. C., and K. P. Burnham . 1999. Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals. Bird Study 46 (Suppl.): 120-138.
47. Wiens, J. A., N. Stenseth, B. Van Horne, and R. A. Ims . 1993. Ecological mechanisms and landscape ecology. Oikos 66: 369-380.