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Rapid expansion of cropland threatens grassland ecosystems across western North America and broad-scaleplanning can be a catalyst motivating individuals and agencies to accelerate conservation. Sprague’s Pipit(Anthus spragueii) is an imperiled grassland songbird whose population has been declining rapidly in recent decades.Here, we present a strategic framework for conservation of pipits and their habitat in the northern GreatPlains.We modeled pipit distribution across its million-km2 breeding range in Canada and the U.S.We describefactors shaping distribution, delineate population cores and assess vulnerability to future grassland losses. Pipitsselected landscapes with a high proportion of continuous grassland...
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Publication;
Types: Citation,
Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2010,
2010,
2011,
2011,
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2013,
Conservation NGOs,
EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE,
Federal resource managers,
Informing Conservation Delivery,
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives,
Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Population and Habitat Evaluation,
Private land owners,
Publication,
Report,
State agencies,
Tribes,
bird populations,
completed,
environment,
environment,
glacial,
grassland brids,
plains and prairie potholes landscape conservation cooperative, Fewer tags
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Synopsis: Researchers measured the effects of grassland amount and fragmentation on upland and wetland songbird and duck densities and nest success across 16 landscapes in southern Alberta. By comparing these landscape-level effects with local-scale responses, including distance to various edges and vegetation characteristics, the study demonstrated that few species were in fact influenced by grassland amount or fragmentation. In contrast, distance to edge and local vegetation characteristics had significant effects on densities and nest success of many species. Landscape level effects were much less apparent when local characteristics were included in the models. Therefore, researchers concluded that local habitat...
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Map Service,
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OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: Akaike's information criterion,
Natural cover amount,
Natural cover heterogeneity,
Northwestern glaciated plains,
Southern Alberta, All tags...
boreal forest and wetlands,
configuration,
fragmentation,
fragmentation,
grazing,
habitat loss,
heterogeneity,
landscape structure,
managed prairie and wetlands,
mixed-effects models,
mixed-grass prairie,
model selection,
nest success,
prairie birds,
regional (southern Alberta),
spatial analysis,
water chemistry, Fewer tags
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