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USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center staff publish results of their research in USGS series reports and in peer-reviewed journals. Publication links are below.  Information on all USGS publications can be found at the USGS Publications Warehouse.

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Ecosystem effects on wolves

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Authors
L. D. Mech, L. Boitani

Wolf population dynamics

A large, dark wolf poked his nose out of the pines in Yellowstone National Park as he thrust a broad foot deep into the snow and plowed ahead. Soon a second animal appeared, then another, and a fourth. A few minutes later, a pack of thirteen lanky wolves had filed out of the pines and onto the open hillside.Wolf packs are the main social units of a wolf population. As numbers of wolves in packs ch
Authors
Todd K. Fuller, L. David Mech, Jean Fitts Cochrane

Grassland bird communities and environmental health: The role of landscape features

Ecosystems throughout the world are imperiled by myriad anthropogenic factors. It is critical to develop tools for evaluating and monitoring the health or integrity of various ecosystems. Because of the broad scale of the problem, the urgency to address informational needs, and the limited financial resources committed to the problem, relatively inexpensive tools that encompass large areas are esp
Authors
Douglas H. Johnson, S.F. Browder, Maiken Winter

Records of Northern Mockingbird, Mimus polyglottos, occurrences in North Dakota during the twentieth century

The Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) is a common bird in the southern United States that has been expanding its breeding range into the northern United States and southern Canada. During the twentieth century, there were 128 reports of Northern Mockingbird occurrences in North Dakota, including 106 reports during the breeding season (15 April to 31 August) and 22 during the nonbreeding sea
Authors
L.D. Igl, R.E. Martin

Breeding season of Wolves, Canis lupus, in relation to latitude

A significant relationship was found between Wolf (Canis lupus) breeding dates and latitudes between 12?? and 80??N, with Wolves breeding earlier at lower latitudes, probably because of differences in seasonality.
Authors
L. D. Mech

Does increasing daylength control seasonal changes in clutch sizes of Northern Pintails (Anas acuta)?

We evaluated spatiotemporal variation in clutch sizes of Northern Pintails (pintails; Anas acuta) nesting in California (1985 to 1996), North Dakota (1982 to 1985), Saskatchewan (1982 to 1985) and Alaska (1991 to 1993) to determine whether seasonal declines in clutch size varied in ways that were consistent with a controlling influence of increasing day length. Pintails began nesting in mid-March
Authors
G.L. Krapu, G.A. Sargeant, A.E.H. Perkins

[Book review] Designing and Interpreting Radio Telemetry Studies, edited by J. J. Millspaugh and J. M. Marzluff

Review of: Millspaugh, Joshua J., and John M. Marzluff, editors. 2001. Radio tracking and animal populations. Academic Press, San Diego, California. xvii 1 474 p. $69.95 (alk. paper), ISBN: 0-12-497781-2.
Authors
G.A. Sargeant

Effects of management practices on wetland birds: Sora

Information on the habitat requirements and effects of habitat management on wetland birds were summarized from information in more than 500 published and unpublished papers. A range map is provided to indicate the relative densities of the species in North America, based on Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Although the BBS may not capture the presence of elusive waterbird species, the BBS is a st
Authors
Amy L. Zimmerman, Brent E. Jamison, Jill A. Dechant, Douglas H. Johnson, Christopher M. Goldade, James O. Church, Betty R. Euliss

Effects of management practices on wetland birds: Marsh Wren

Information on the habitat requirements and effects of habitat management on wetland birds were summarized from information in more than 500 published and unpublished papers. A range map is provided to indicate the relative densities of the species in North America, based on Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Although the BBS may not capture the presence of elusive waterbird species, the BBS is a st
Authors
Amy L. Zimmerman, Jill A. Dechant, Douglas H. Johnson, Christopher M. Goldade, James O. Church, Betty R. Euliss

Effects of management practices on wetland birds: Eared Grebe

Information on the habitat requirements and effects of habitat management on wetland birds were summarized from information in more than 500 published and unpublished papers. A range map is provided to indicate the relative densities of the species in North America, based on Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Although the BBS may not capture the presence of elusive waterbird species, the BBS is a st
Authors
Jill A. Dechant, Douglas H. Johnson, Christopher M. Goldade, James O. Church, Betty R. Euliss

Invertebrate biomass: Associations with lesser prairie-chicken habitat use and sand sagebrush density in southwestern Kansas

Invertebrates are important food sources for lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) adults and broods. We compared invertebrate biomass in areas used and not used by lesser prairie-chicken adults and broods. We used radiotelemetry to determine use and non-use areas in sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia) prairie in southwestern Kansas and sampled invertebrate populations during summer
Authors
B.E. Jamison, R.J. Robel, J.S. Pontius, R.D. Applegate