Ecology And Management Of Appalachian Ruffed Grouse

Author : Dean F. Stauffer
Publisher : Hancock House Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Ruffed grouse
ISBN : 0888396678

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Ecology and Management of Appalachian Ruffed Grouse by Dean F. Stauffer Pdf

A comprehensive overview of all aspects of grouse ecology and management in the central and southern Appalachians, summarizing findings of the Appalachian Cooperative Grouse Research Project. Topics covered include basic biology and ecology re nesting and brood survival; survival factors; food habits and nutrition; home ranges and dispersal; population and habitat management; the future of grouse in the region. The ecology and management of ruffed grouse is well understood for their core range where aspen is dominant and integral to their well-being. But, what of ruffed grouse that occur where aspen doesn't provide for their annual needs? Ecology and Management of Appalachian Ruffed Grouse presents a comprehensive overview of all aspects of grouse ecology and management in the central and southern Appalachians and summarizes the findings of the Appalachian Cooperative Grouse Research Project. From 1996 through 2002, investigators captured, released and followed the fate of over 3000 grouse on 12 study sites from Rhode Island to North Carolina. The primary goal was to understand factors, including hunting, that affect grouse survival, but in the process a substantial amount of additional information was discovered about grouse ecology in the Appalachians. The book covers the following topics: basic biology and ecology related to nesting and brood survival; factors affecting survival; food habits and nutrition effects on ecology; home ranges and dispersal; roosting ecology; population and habitat management; and, grouse management on private lands and the future of grouse in the central and southern Appalachians. This book should appeal to serious students of grouse ecology and management, game bird enthusiasts, and those individuals who are interested in natural history of birds in general.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Grouse
ISBN : PSU:000061610309

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Ruffed Grouse Population Ecology in the Appalachian Region by Anonim Pdf

S2The Appalachian Cooperative Grouse Research Project (ACGRP) was a Multistate cooperative effort initiated in 1996 to investigate the apparent decline of ruffed grouse (Bonus umbellus) and improve management throughout the central and southern Appalachian region (i.e., parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina, USA). Researchers have offered several hypotheses to explain the low abundance of ruffed grouse in the region, including low availability of early-successional forests due to changes in land use, additive harvest mortality, low productivity and recruitment, and nutritional stress. As part of the ACGRP, we investigated ruffed grouse population ecology. Our objectives were to estimate reproductive rates, estimate survival and cause-specific mortality rates, examine if ruffed grouse harvest in the Appalachian region is compensatory, and estimate ruffed grouse finite population growth. We trapped >3,000 ruffed grouse in autumn (Sep-Nov) and spring (Feb-Mar) from 1996 to September 2002 on 12 study areas. We determined the age and gender of each bird and fitted them with necklace-style radiotransmitters and released them at the trap site. We tracked ruffed grouse >- 2 times per week using handheld radiotelemetry equipment and gathered data on reproduction, recruitment, survival, and mortality. Ruffed grouse population dynamics in the Appalachian region differed from the central portion of the species' range (i.e., northern United States and Canada). Ruffed grouse in the Appalachian region had lower productivity and recruitment, but higher survival than reported for populations in the Great Lakes region and southern Canada. Population dynamics differed between oak (Quercus spp.)-hickory (Carya spp.) and mixed-mesophytic forest associations within the southern and central Appalachian region. Productivity and recruitment were lower in oak-hickory forests, but adult survival was higher than in mixed-mesophytic forests. Furthermore, ruffed grouse productivity and recruitment were more strongly related to hard mast (i.e., acorn) production in oak-hickory forests than in mixed-mesophytic forests. The leading cause of ruffed grouse mortality was avian predation (44% of known mortalities). Harvest mortality accounted for 12% of all known mortalities and appeared to be compensatory. Population models indicated ruffed grouse populations in the Appalachian region are declining ([lambda] = 0.78-0.95), but differences in model estimates highlighted the need for improved understanding of annual productivity and recruitment. We posit ruffed grouse in the Appalachian region exhibit a clinal population structure characterized by changes in life-history strategies. Changes in life history strategies are in response to gradual changes in forest structure, quality of food resources, snowfall and accumulation patterns, and predator communities. Management efforts should focus on creating a mosaic of forest stand ages across the landscape to intersperse habitat resources including nesting and brood cover, adult escape cover, roosting sites, and, most importantly, food resources. Land managers can intersperse habitat resources through a combination of‍?c1earcutting, shelterwood harvest, group selection, and timber stand improvement including various thinnings and prescribed fire). Managers should maintain current ruffed grouse harvest rates while providing high quality hunting opportunities. We define high quality hunting as low hunting pressure, low vehicle traffic, and high flush rates. Managers can provide high quality hunting opportunities through use of road closures in conjunction with habitat management.S3.

Author : Cathryn Greenberg,Beverly Collins,Frank Thompson III
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789400716209

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Sustaining Young Forest Communities by Cathryn Greenberg,Beverly Collins,Frank Thompson III Pdf

This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early-successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region of the USA. These open habitats, with herbaceous, shrub, or young forest cover, are disappearing as abandoned farmland, pastures, and cleared forest patches return to forest. There are many questions about “why, what, where, and how” to manage for early successional habitats. In this book, expert scientists and experienced land managers synthesize knowledge and original scientific work to address questions on such topics as wildlife, water, carbon sequestration, natural versus managed disturbance, future scenarios, and sustainable creation and management of early successional habitat in a landscape context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN : UOM:39015089330685

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A Multi-criteria Decisionmaking Approach for Management Indicator Species Selection on the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick D. Keyser,Todd Fearer,Craig A. Harper
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781498782623

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Managing Oak Forests in the Eastern United States by Patrick D. Keyser,Todd Fearer,Craig A. Harper Pdf

If you are responsible for oak management, Managing Oak Forests in the Eastern United States is for you. It is the definitive practical guide for anyone interested in improving stewardship of eastern oak forests. Organized into three sections, the first section, "Background and Biology: Setting the Stage," helps you establish a solid understanding

Author : Cathryn H. Greenberg,Beverly Collins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030732677

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Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems by Cathryn H. Greenberg,Beverly Collins Pdf

This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad patterns among ecoregions and forest types, as well as detailed information for individual ecoregions, for fire frequencies and severities, fire effects on tree mortality and regeneration, and levels of fire-dependency by plant and animal communities. The foreword addresses emerging ecological and fire management challenges for forests, in relation to sustainable development goals as highlighted in recent government reports. An introductory chapter highlights patterns of variation in frequencies, severities, scales, and spatial patterns of fire across ecoregions and among forested ecosystems across the US in relation to climate, fuels, topography and soils, ignition sources (lightning or anthropogenic), and vegetation. Separate chapters by respected experts delve into the fire ecology of major forest types within US ecoregions, with a focus on the level of plant and animal fire-dependency, and the role of fire in maintaining forest composition and structure. The regional chapters also include discussion of historic natural (lightning-ignited) and anthropogenic (Native American; settlers) fire regimes, current fire regimes as influenced by recent decades of fire suppression and land use history, and fire management in relation to ecosystem integrity and restoration, wildfire threat, and climate change. The summary chapter combines the major points of each chapter, in a synthesis of US-wide fire ecology and forest management into the future. This book provides current, organized, readily accessible information for the conservation community, land managers, scientists, students and educators, and others interested in how fire behavior and effects on structure and composition differ among ecoregions and forest types, and what that means for forest management today and in the future.

Author : Wisconsin. Department of Natural Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Forest management
ISBN : WISC:89098818271

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Integrating Forest and Ruffed Grouse Management by Wisconsin. Department of Natural Resources Pdf

Author : Frank Richard Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Birds
ISBN : MINN:31951D02996495J

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Management of Early-successional Communities in Central Hardwood Forests by Frank Richard Thompson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754073525663

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Special Reference Briefs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Agricultural conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D02855013R

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Effects of Agricultural Conservation Practices on Fish and Wildlife by Anonim Pdf

"The bibliography is a guide to recent scientific literature covering effects of agricultural conservation practices on fish and wildlife. The citations listed here provide information on how conservation programs and practices designed to improve fish and wildlife habitat, as well as those intended for other purposes (e.g., water quality improvement), affect various aquatic and terrestrial fauna"--Abstract.

Author : Patrick D. Keyser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D02977262D

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Ten Years of Research on the MeadWestvaco Wildlife and Ecosystem Research Forest by Patrick D. Keyser Pdf

Author : Brett K. Sandercock,Kathy Martin,Gernot Segelbacher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520270060

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Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Grouse by Brett K. Sandercock,Kathy Martin,Gernot Segelbacher Pdf

Summarizing current knowledge of grouse biology, this volume is organized in four sections--spatial ecology, habitat relationships, population biology, and conservation and management--and offers insights into spatial requirements, movements, and demography of grouse. Much of the research employs emerging tools in ecology that span biogeochemistry, molecular genetics, endocrinology, radio-telemetry, and remote sensing.--Adapted from publisher description on back cover.

Author : Brett K. Sandercock,Kathy Martin,Gernot Segelbacher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520950573

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Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Grouse by Brett K. Sandercock,Kathy Martin,Gernot Segelbacher Pdf

Grouse—an ecologically important group of birds that include capercaillie, prairie chickens, and ptarmigan—are distributed throughout the forests, grasslands, and tundra of Europe, Asia, and North America. Today, many grouse populations are in decline, and the conservation and management of these charismatic birds is becoming a global concern. This volume summarizes current knowledge of grouse biology in 25 chapters contributed by 80 researchers from field studies around the world. Organized in four sections—Spatial Ecology, Habitat Relationships, Population Biology, and Conservation and Management—the chapters offer important insights into spatial requirements, movements, and demography of grouse. Much of the research employs emerging tools in ecology that span biogeochemistry, molecular genetics, endocrinology, radio-telemetry, and remote sensing. The chapters explore topics including the impacts of climate change, energy development, and harvest, and give new evidence for life-history changes in response to human activities.

Author : United States. Forest Service. Southern Region
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Chattahoochee National Forest (Ga.)
ISBN : UCD:31175028273632

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Land and Resource Management Plan by United States. Forest Service. Southern Region Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Chattahoochee National Forest (Ga.)
ISBN : MINN:31951D02461923U

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Land and Resource Management Plan by Anonim Pdf