Eileen M Kirsch

Vegetation and breeding birds were sampled in Upper Mississippi River floodplain forest edge and interior areas to (1) measure Phalaris cover and (2) evaluate if the breeding bird assemblage responded to differences in Phalaris cover or other forest structure variables. Data are counts of birds collected during 3 surveys within 50m at each site using 10 minute point count methods. Vegetation was sampled using a releve technique at the bird count point within 10m of the point.

1990s bird and vegetation data from UMR floodplain forest

From 1994-1997 I surveyed breeding birds and sampled vegetation at 391 random points on UMR floodplain forest along a latitudinal gradient to characterize bird assemblages and associations with gradients in forest structure at the local survey point and land cover composition within 200m radius of survey points (landscape scale). We conducted 10 minute 50m fixed radius point counts (Ralph et al. 1993) to survey birds during the breeding period between 30 May and 10 July in all years. We sampled the southernmost pool (13) first and then progressed to each pool in succession northward, finishing in Pool 4, sampling each point once a season. Surveys were conducted from 30 minutes before to five hours after local sunrise....

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Breeding songbirds, Floodplain forest, Pool 12, Upper Mississippi River, USA, Pool 13, Upper Mississippi River, USA, Pool 4, Upper Mississippi River, USA, All tags... Pool 5, Upper Mississippi River, USA, Pool 7, Upper Mississippi River, USA, Pool 8, Upper Mississippi River, USA, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), biota, Fewer tags

Tree Species Preferences of Foraging Songbirds During Spring Migration in Floodplain Forests of the Upper Mississippi River: Bird Data

We evaluated bird foraging preferences for tree species during spring migration 2010-2013. We used the point center-quarter method to assess relative availability (tree importance values, IV) of tree species and tallied bird foraging observations on tree species as well as recording the phenophase of used trees on five 40 ha plots of contiguous floodplain forest between La Crosse, Wisconsin, and New Albin, Iowa, from 15 April through 1 June 2010-2013. We quantified bird preferences by comparing proportional use of tree species by each bird species to estimates of tree species availability (IV) for all four years and for each year separately. Bird data records contain the plot identity, date, time of the observation,...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Houston County, MN, La Crosse, La Crosse County, WI, Minnesota, Upper Mississippi, All tags... Upper Mississippi River Pool 8, Upper Mississippi River Pool 9, Vernon County, WI, Wisconsin, bird behavior, bird foraging, ecology, floodplain forest, Fewer tags

Vermillion/Cannon River Bottoms Important Bird Area Raw Breeding bird survey data

We sampled vegetation and breeding birds in Upper Mississippi River floodplain forest edge and interior areas to (1) measure Phalaris cover and (2) evaluate if the breeding bird assemblage responded to differences in Phalaris cover or other forest structure variables. Data are counts of birds collected during 3 surveys within 50m at each site using 10 minute point count methods. Vegetation was sampled using a releve technique at the bird count point within 10m of the point.

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Breeding songbirds, Dakota, Floodplain Forest, Goodhue, Mississippi River, All tags... Navigation Pool 3, Navigation Pool 4, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Mississippi River, forest ecosystems, forests, Fewer tags

Vermillion/Cannon River Bottoms raw vegetation data from transect data

Detailed point center quarter sampling (Mueller-Dombois and Ellenberg 1974) was conducted during late June along a 150-m long transect that started at a bird survey point. Four plots were sampled corresponding to the start, 50m, 100m and end points of each transect. At each of these four sample plots, species, diameter at breast height (dbh) and distance from the center of the plot were recorded tor trees (>8cm dbh) and saplings (≤8cm dbh). Number of standing snags (>8cm dbh and over 2 m tall) within 25m of the plot center were counted. Total basal area of each plot was estimated using a size 10 angle gauge and averaged over the four plots in each transect. As well, height of a representative canopy tree and understory...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Dakota, Floodplain Forest, Goodhue, Mississippi River, Navigation Pool 3, All tags... Navigation Pool 4, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Upper Mississippi River, forest ecosystems, forests, Fewer tags