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Mountain Plover population and habitat assessments in Texas, 2019–2020

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2019-01-31
End Date
2020-02-13

Citation

Lyons, J.E., Andres, B.A., Pierce, A.K. and Stone, K.L., 2023, Mountain Plover population and habitat assessments in Texas, 2019–2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y7ZH24.

Summary

We conducted population and habitat assessments for Mountain Plovers in Texas during winters of 2019 and 2020. We used roadside surveys and distance-sampling to estimate bird density and calculate population totals for the study area, which included parts of five ecoregions (Chihuahuan Deserts, High Plains, Central Great Plains, Southern Texas Plains, Texas Blackland Prairies, and Western Gulf Coastal Plain). In 2019, we surveyed 103 transects along 3,032 km (1,884 mi) and, in 2020, we surveyed 152 transects along 4,985 km (3,098 mi). When driving along transects, we stopped every 3.2 km (2 mi) to assess habitat conditions (vegetation height, vegetation density, etc.) and land cover (National Land Cover Database categories).

Contacts

Point of Contact :
James E Lyons
Originator :
James E Lyons, Brad A. Andres, Allison (Contractor) K Pierce, Kelly L Stone
Metadata Contact :
James E Lyons
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Eastern Ecological Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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mountain_plover_texas2.xml
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View 		64.6 KB application/fgdc+xml
detections_allsp_2019-2020.csv 7.52 KB text/csv
landcover_2019-2020.csv 269.55 KB text/csv
offroute_detections_2019-2020.csv 364 Bytes text/csv
route_shapefile.zip 265.56 KB application/zip
routes_2019-2020_w_length.csv 22.33 KB text/csv

Purpose

This dataset was collected as part of a collaborative research project to use road-based transects and distance sampling methods to estimate density and numbers of Mountain Plovers wintering in Texas.

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