Publications
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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Human dimensions of natural resource management: emerging issues and practical applications
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D.C. Fulton, Kären C. Nelson, D.H. Anderson, D.W. Lime
Effects of management practices on grassland birds: Horned Lark
Information on the habitat requirements and effects of habitat management on grassland birds were summarized from information in more than 5,500 published and unpublished papers.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 birds frequently are observed outside the breeding range indicated, the maps a
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Meghan F. Dinkins, Amy L. Zimmerman, Jill A. Dechant, Barry D. Parkin, Douglas H. Johnson, Lawrence D. Igl, Christopher M. Goldade, Betty R. Euliss
Decline in waste corn affecting spring staging habits of sandhill cranes in the central Platte River Valley, Nebraska
No abstract available.
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G.L. Krapu, D.A. Brandt
Avian inventory of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Kansas 1998-1999
No abstract available.
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J.S. Lichtenberg, A.N. Powell
Relationships of habitat patch size to predator community and survival of duck nests
We studied duck nest success and predator community composition in relation to size of discrete patches of nesting cover in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of the United States in 1993-95. We focused on nests in uplands that were seeded to perennial grasses and forbs and enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. We estimated daily survival ra
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M.A. Sovada, M.C. Zicus, R. J. Greenwood, D.P. Rave, W.E. Newton, R.O. Woodward, J.A. Beiser
Evidence for edge effects on multiple levels in tallgrass prairie
We tested how edges affect nest survival and predator distribution in a native tallgrass prairie system in southwestern Missouri using artificial nests, natural nests of Dickcissels (Spiza americana) and Henslow's Sparrows (Ammodramus henslowii), and mammal track stations. Survival of artificial nests was lower within 30 m of forest edge. Nesting success of Dickcissels and Henslow's Sparrows was l
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Maiken Winter, Douglas H. Johnson, John Faaborg
A surface-associated activity trap for capturing water-surface and aquatic invertebrates in wetlands
We developed a surface-associated activity trap (SAT) for sampling aquatic invertebrates in wetlands. We compared performance of this trap with that of a conventional activity trap (AT) based on non-detection rates and relative abundance estimates for 13 taxa of common wetland invertebrates and for taxon richness using data from experiments in constructed wetlands. Taxon-specific non-detection rat
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Mark A. Hanson, Christiane C. Roy, Ned Euliss, Kyle D. Zimmer, Michael R. Riggs, Malcolm G. Butler
Description and identification of American Black Duck, Mallard, and hybrid wing plumage
We developed a key to identify wings of hybrids between American Black Ducks (Anas rubripes) and Mallards (A. platyrhynchos). Material for analysis included review of historical descriptions dating from the late 1700's, older museum collections in Europe and North America, wings collected from hunters in North America and Great Britain, birds banded in Canada and the United States, and a flock of
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Ronald E. Kirby, Austin Reed, Pierre Dupuis, Holliday H. Obrecht, Walter J. Quist
Accuracy and precision of estimating age of gray wolves by tooth wear
We evaluated the accuracy and precision of tooth wear for aging gray wolves (Canis lupus) from Alaska, Minnesota, and Ontario based on 47 known-age or known-minimum-age skulls. Estimates of age using tooth wear and a commercial cementum annuli-aging service were useful for wolves up to 14 years old. The precision of estimates from cementum annuli was greater than estimates from tooth wear, but too
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P. S. Gipson, W.B. Ballard, R. M. Nowak, L. D. Mech