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This project evaluated the potential impacts of storm surges and relative sea level rise on nesting geese and eider species that commonly breed on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta (Y-K Delta). Habitat suitability maps for breeding waterbirds were developed to identify current waterbird breeding habitat and distributions. Short-term climate change impacts were assessed by comparing nest densities in relation to magnitude of storms that occurred in the prior fall from 2000-2013. Additionally, nest densities were modeled using random forests in relation to the time-integrated flood index (e.g., a storm specific measure accounting for both water depth and duration of flooding) for four modeled storms (2005, 2006, 2009, and...
Categories: Data,
Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: DELTAS,
DELTAS,
DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS,
DUCKS/GEESE/SWANS,
Decision Support, All tags...
ENDANGERED SPECIES,
ENDANGERED SPECIES,
EROSION,
EROSION,
ESTUARINE WETLANDS,
ESTUARINE WETLANDS,
FLOODS,
FLOODS,
Federal resource managers,
INUNDATION,
INUNDATION,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Map,
PALUSTRINE WETLANDS,
PALUSTRINE WETLANDS,
Policy makers & regulators,
Population & Habitat Evaluation/Projection,
Presentation,
Project,
Publication,
Report,
SALTWATER INTRUSION,
SALTWATER INTRUSION,
SEA LEVEL RISE,
SEA LEVEL RISE,
SEDIMENT TRANSPORT,
SEDIMENT TRANSPORT,
SEDIMENTATION,
SEDIMENTATION,
SEVERE STORMS,
SEVERE STORMS,
SPECIES LIFE HISTORY,
SPECIES LIFE HISTORY,
STORM SURGE,
STORM SURGE,
Tribes,
USE/FEEDING HABITATS,
USE/FEEDING HABITATS,
Vulnerability Assessment,
WETLANDS,
WETLANDS,
biota,
biota,
completed,
environment,
environment, Fewer tags
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Anthropogenic changes to the biosphere, including widespread degradation and losses of habitats and ecosystems, are causing rapid and profound changes to bird and other wildlife populations throughout the world. Such changes have led to increasing risks and rates of extinction. As a consequence, information on how bird populations are changing is becoming increasingly important to wildlife conservationists and managers. Early detection of population change is crucial for setting wildlife planning and management priorities. For example, information on population size, population vulnerability, and population change has been central to international conservation strategies such as the Ramsar Convention, the Western...
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Final report of the a project completed by NatureServe for the North Atlantic Landscape Conservaiton Cooperative, using the Climate Change Vulnerability Index to assess the vulnerability to climate change of 64 species occurring in the region.
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Many Arctic shorebird populations are declining, and quantifying adult survival and the effects of anthropogenic factorsis a crucial step toward a better understanding of population dynamics. We used a recently developed, spatially explicitCormack–Jolly–Seber model in a Bayesian framework to obtain broad-scale estimates of true annual survival rates for 6species of shorebirds at 9 breeding sites across the North American Arctic in 2010–2014. We tested for effects ofenvironmental and ecological variables, study site, nest fate, and sex on annual survival rates of each species in thespatially explicit framework, which allowed us to distinguish between effects of variables on site fidelity versus truesurvival. Our...
Categories: Data,
Publication;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Arctic Landscape Conservation Cooperative data.gov,
BIRDS,
BIRDS,
BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY,
BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY, All tags...
Conservation NGOs,
Federal resource managers,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Publication,
biota,
biota,
completed, Fewer tags
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To determine the current spatial distribution of waterfowl nesting areas and understand the importance of environmental variables in the selection of nest locations, we modeled nest densities for six species of geese and eiders that commonly breed on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, including cackling goose ( Branta hutchinsii minima), emperor goose ( Chen canagica), black brant ( B. bernicla nigricans), greater white-fronted goose ( Anser albifrons frontalis), spectacled eider ( Somateria fischeri), and common eider ( S. mollissima). The data used were from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's long-term waterbird monitoring program in which single-visit nest searches were conducted during incubation (typically from early...
Tags: AK-00,
Alaska,
Data,
Datasets/Database,
LCC, All tags...
Map,
Map,
Project,
Western Alaska Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta,
eider,
geese,
nest density,
predicted distribution,
random forests,
waterbirds,
waterfowl, Fewer tags
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