Clinton Moore, PhD (Former Employee)
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Lizard activity and abundance greater in burned habitat of a xeric montane forest
Restoring the natural or historical state of ecosystems is a common objective among resource managers, but determining whether desired system responses to management actions are occurring is often protracted and challenging. For wildlife, the integration of mechanistic habitat modeling with population monitoring may provide expedited measures of management effectiveness and improve understanding o
Authors
Kevin L. Fouts, Clinton T. Moore, Kristine D. Johnson, John C. Maerz
Achieving full connectivity of sites in the multiperiod reserve network design problem
The conservation reserve design problem is a challenge to solve because of the spatial and temporal nature of the problem, uncertainties in the decision process, and the possibility of alternative conservation actions for any given land parcel. Conservation agencies tasked with reserve design may benefit from a dynamic decision system that provides tactical guidance for short-term decision opportu
Authors
Nahid Jafari, Bryan L. Nuse, Clinton T. Moore, Bistra Dilkina, Jeffrey Hepinstall-Cymerman
A decision support tool for adaptive management of native prairie ecosystems
The Native Prairie Adaptive Management initiative is a decision support framework that provides cooperators with management-action recommendations to help them conserve native species and suppress invasive species on prairie lands. We developed a Web-based decision support tool (DST) for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey initiative. The DST facilitates cross-organiz
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Victoria M. Hunt, Sarah Jacobi, Jill J. Gannon, Jennifer E. Zorn, Clinton T. Moore, Eric V. Lonsdorf
Coastal vertebrate exposure to predicted habitat changes due to sea level rise
Sea level rise (SLR) may degrade habitat for coastal vertebrates in the Southeastern United States, but it is unclear which groups or species will be most exposed to habitat changes. We assessed 28 coastal Georgia vertebrate species for their exposure to potential habitat changes due to SLR using output from the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model and information on the species’ fundamental niches.
Authors
Elizabeth A. Hunter, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Clark R. Alexander, Kyle Barrett, Lara F. Mengak, Rachel Guy, Clinton T. Moore, Robert J. Cooper
Adaptive management in the U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System: Science-management partnerships for conservation delivery
Adaptive management is an approach to recurrent decision making in which uncertainty about the decision is reduced over time through comparison of outcomes predicted by competing models against observed values of those outcomes. The National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a large land management program charged with making natural resource management decisio
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C. T. Moore, E. V. Lonsdorf, M. G. Knutson, H. P. Laskowski, S. K. Lor
Conservation of northern bobwhite on private lands in Georgia, USA under uncertainty about landscape-level habitat effects
Large-scale habitat enhancement programs for birds are becoming more widespread, however, most lack monitoring to resolve uncertainties and enhance program impact over time. Georgia?s Bobwhite Quail Initiative (BQI) is a competitive, proposal-based system that provides incentives to landowners to establish habitat for northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus). Using data from monitoring conducted
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J.E. Howell, C. T. Moore, M.J. Conroy, R.G. Hamrick, R.J. Cooper, R.E. Thackston, J.P. Carroll
Design for a region-wide adaptive search for the ivorybilled woodpecker with the objective of estimating occupancy and related parameters
We describe a survey design and field protocol for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) search effort that will: (1) allow estimation of occupancy, use, and detection probability for habitats at two spatial scales within the bird?s former range, (2) assess relationships between occupancy, use, and habitat characteristics at those scales, (3) eventually allow the development of a p
Authors
R.J. Cooper, Rua S. Mordecai, B.G. Mattsson, M.J. Conroy, K. Pacifici, J.T. Peterson, C. T. Moore
Effects of human activity of breeding American Oystercatchers, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia, USA
Abstract.-Increased human use of coastal areas threatens the United States population of American Oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus), a species of special concern. Biologists often attribute its low numbers and reproductive success to human disturbance, but the mechanism by which human presence reduces reproductive success is not well understood. During the 2003 and 2004 breeding seasons, 32
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J. B. Sabine, J.M. Meyers, C. T. Moore, Sara H. Schweitzer
Sources of variation in detection of wading birds from aerial surveys in the Florida Everglades
We conducted dual-observer trials to estimate detection probabilities (probability that a group that is present and available is detected) for fixed-wing aerial surveys of wading birds in the Everglades system, Florida. Detection probability ranged from
Authors
M.J. Conroy, J.T. Peterson, O.L. Bass, C.J. Fonnesbeck, J.E. Howell, C. T. Moore, J.P. Runge
Optimal regeneration planning for old-growth forest: addressing scientific uncertainty in endangered species recovery through adaptive management
Stochastic and structural uncertainties about forest dynamics present challenges in the management of ephemeral habitat conditions for endangered forest species. Maintaining critical foraging and breeding habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) requires an uninterrupted supply of old-growth forest. We constructed and optimized a dynamic forest growth model for the
Authors
C. T. Moore, M.J. Conroy
Forest management under uncertainty for multiple bird population objectives
We advocate adaptive programs of decision making and monitoring for the management of forest birds when responses by populations to management, and particularly management trade-offs among populations, are uncertain. Models are necessary components of adaptive management. Under this approach, uncertainty about the behavior of a managed system is explicitly captured in a set of alternative model
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C. T. Moore, W.T. Plummer, M.J. Conroy
Evaluation of the landscape surrounding northern bobwhite nest sites: A multiscale analysis
Implementation of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) altered the interspersion and abundance of patches of different land-cover types in landscapes of the southeastern United States. Because northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) are experiencing significant population declines throughout most of their range, including the Southeast, it is critical to understand the impacts of landscape-scal
Authors
Craig White, Sara H. Schweitzer, Clinton T. Moore, I. B. Parnell, L. A. Lewis-Weis
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 28
Lizard activity and abundance greater in burned habitat of a xeric montane forest
Restoring the natural or historical state of ecosystems is a common objective among resource managers, but determining whether desired system responses to management actions are occurring is often protracted and challenging. For wildlife, the integration of mechanistic habitat modeling with population monitoring may provide expedited measures of management effectiveness and improve understanding o
Authors
Kevin L. Fouts, Clinton T. Moore, Kristine D. Johnson, John C. Maerz
Achieving full connectivity of sites in the multiperiod reserve network design problem
The conservation reserve design problem is a challenge to solve because of the spatial and temporal nature of the problem, uncertainties in the decision process, and the possibility of alternative conservation actions for any given land parcel. Conservation agencies tasked with reserve design may benefit from a dynamic decision system that provides tactical guidance for short-term decision opportu
Authors
Nahid Jafari, Bryan L. Nuse, Clinton T. Moore, Bistra Dilkina, Jeffrey Hepinstall-Cymerman
A decision support tool for adaptive management of native prairie ecosystems
The Native Prairie Adaptive Management initiative is a decision support framework that provides cooperators with management-action recommendations to help them conserve native species and suppress invasive species on prairie lands. We developed a Web-based decision support tool (DST) for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey initiative. The DST facilitates cross-organiz
Authors
Victoria M. Hunt, Sarah Jacobi, Jill J. Gannon, Jennifer E. Zorn, Clinton T. Moore, Eric V. Lonsdorf
Coastal vertebrate exposure to predicted habitat changes due to sea level rise
Sea level rise (SLR) may degrade habitat for coastal vertebrates in the Southeastern United States, but it is unclear which groups or species will be most exposed to habitat changes. We assessed 28 coastal Georgia vertebrate species for their exposure to potential habitat changes due to SLR using output from the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model and information on the species’ fundamental niches.
Authors
Elizabeth A. Hunter, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Clark R. Alexander, Kyle Barrett, Lara F. Mengak, Rachel Guy, Clinton T. Moore, Robert J. Cooper
Adaptive management in the U.S. National Wildlife Refuge System: Science-management partnerships for conservation delivery
Adaptive management is an approach to recurrent decision making in which uncertainty about the decision is reduced over time through comparison of outcomes predicted by competing models against observed values of those outcomes. The National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a large land management program charged with making natural resource management decisio
Authors
C. T. Moore, E. V. Lonsdorf, M. G. Knutson, H. P. Laskowski, S. K. Lor
Conservation of northern bobwhite on private lands in Georgia, USA under uncertainty about landscape-level habitat effects
Large-scale habitat enhancement programs for birds are becoming more widespread, however, most lack monitoring to resolve uncertainties and enhance program impact over time. Georgia?s Bobwhite Quail Initiative (BQI) is a competitive, proposal-based system that provides incentives to landowners to establish habitat for northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus). Using data from monitoring conducted
Authors
J.E. Howell, C. T. Moore, M.J. Conroy, R.G. Hamrick, R.J. Cooper, R.E. Thackston, J.P. Carroll
Design for a region-wide adaptive search for the ivorybilled woodpecker with the objective of estimating occupancy and related parameters
We describe a survey design and field protocol for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) search effort that will: (1) allow estimation of occupancy, use, and detection probability for habitats at two spatial scales within the bird?s former range, (2) assess relationships between occupancy, use, and habitat characteristics at those scales, (3) eventually allow the development of a p
Authors
R.J. Cooper, Rua S. Mordecai, B.G. Mattsson, M.J. Conroy, K. Pacifici, J.T. Peterson, C. T. Moore
Effects of human activity of breeding American Oystercatchers, Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia, USA
Abstract.-Increased human use of coastal areas threatens the United States population of American Oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus), a species of special concern. Biologists often attribute its low numbers and reproductive success to human disturbance, but the mechanism by which human presence reduces reproductive success is not well understood. During the 2003 and 2004 breeding seasons, 32
Authors
J. B. Sabine, J.M. Meyers, C. T. Moore, Sara H. Schweitzer
Sources of variation in detection of wading birds from aerial surveys in the Florida Everglades
We conducted dual-observer trials to estimate detection probabilities (probability that a group that is present and available is detected) for fixed-wing aerial surveys of wading birds in the Everglades system, Florida. Detection probability ranged from
Authors
M.J. Conroy, J.T. Peterson, O.L. Bass, C.J. Fonnesbeck, J.E. Howell, C. T. Moore, J.P. Runge
Optimal regeneration planning for old-growth forest: addressing scientific uncertainty in endangered species recovery through adaptive management
Stochastic and structural uncertainties about forest dynamics present challenges in the management of ephemeral habitat conditions for endangered forest species. Maintaining critical foraging and breeding habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) requires an uninterrupted supply of old-growth forest. We constructed and optimized a dynamic forest growth model for the
Authors
C. T. Moore, M.J. Conroy
Forest management under uncertainty for multiple bird population objectives
We advocate adaptive programs of decision making and monitoring for the management of forest birds when responses by populations to management, and particularly management trade-offs among populations, are uncertain. Models are necessary components of adaptive management. Under this approach, uncertainty about the behavior of a managed system is explicitly captured in a set of alternative model
Authors
C. T. Moore, W.T. Plummer, M.J. Conroy
Evaluation of the landscape surrounding northern bobwhite nest sites: A multiscale analysis
Implementation of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) altered the interspersion and abundance of patches of different land-cover types in landscapes of the southeastern United States. Because northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) are experiencing significant population declines throughout most of their range, including the Southeast, it is critical to understand the impacts of landscape-scal
Authors
Craig White, Sara H. Schweitzer, Clinton T. Moore, I. B. Parnell, L. A. Lewis-Weis