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NOAA Firebird Project
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The NOAA Firebird Project is focused on understanding how prescribed fire practices affect populations of black and yellow rails and mottled ducks in high marsh across the U.S. Gulf States, during the breeding and non-breeding seasons.
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Nova Scotia Nature Trust NSNT
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We protect Nova Scotia’s outstanding natural legacy through land conservation.
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Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture
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The Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture (OPJV) is a regional, self-directed partnership of government and non-governmental organizations and individuals working across administrative boundaries to deliver landscape-level planning and science-based conservation, linking on-the-ground management with national bird population goals. The OPJV activities focus on a broad spectrum of bird conservation activities including biological planning, conservation design, conducting “on-the-ground” conservation delivery projects, organizing outreach, research, and monitoring, creating decision support tools, and raising money for these activities through partner contributions and grants within the Oaks and Prairies Bird Conservation Region (BCR) and the Edwards Plateau BCR.
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Partners in Flight 2016 Landbird Conservation Plan Released
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Scientists Document Widespread Declines, Urgent Need for Conservation of Landbirds in U.S. and Canada. Report calls for unprecedented partnerships across public and private sectors to reverse trends throughout bird’s life-cycles.
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Pheasants Forever
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Pheasants Forever's mission is to conserve pheasants, quail, and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public access, education, and conservation advocacy.
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Quail Forever
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Quail Forever is dedicated to the conservation of quail, pheasants and other wildlife through habitat improvements, public awareness, education, and land management policies and programs.
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Rebel Eloy Emanis Pine Savanna and Bird Sanctuary
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A private, therapeutic, 50-acre, fledgling, home-grown pine savanna in Deep East Texas.
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Recovery: Farm Bill Provides Hope for the Cerulean Warbler
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With funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) available from the Farm Bill’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program the Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture (a partnership of state and federal agencies and NGOs including The Nature Conservancy) is helping private land owners restore cerulean habitat.
Check out the original article at the Nature Conservancy's Cool Green Science blog:
https://blog.nature.org/science/2017/08/15/recovery-farm-bill-provides-hope-for-the-cerulean-warbler/
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Temporal dynamics of a commensal network of cavity-nesting vertebrates: increased diversity during an insect outbreak
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Network analysis offers insight into the structure and function of ecological
communities, but little is known about how empirical networks change over time during
perturbations. ‘‘Nest webs’’ are commensal networks that link secondary cavity-nesting
vertebrates (e.g., bluebirds, ducks, and squirrels, which depend on tree cavities for nesting)
with the excavators (e.g., woodpeckers) that produce cavities. In central British Columbia,
Canada, Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) is considered a keystone excavator, providing
most cavities for secondary cavity-nesters. However, roles of species in the network, and
overall network architecture, are expected to vary with population fluctuations. Many
excavator species increased in abundance in association with a pulse of food (adult and larval
beetles) during an outbreak of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae), which peaked
in 2003–2004. We studied nest-web dynamics from 1998 to 2011 to determine how network
architecture changed during this resource pulse.Cavity availability increased at the onset of the beetle outbreak and peaked in 2005. During and after the outbreak, secondary cavity-nesters increased their use of cavities made by five species of beetle-eating excavators, and decreased their use of flicker cavities. We found low link turnover, with 74% of links conserved from year to year. Nevertheless, the network
increased in evenness and diversity of interactions, and declined slightly in nestedness and
niche overlap. These patterns remained evident seven years after the beetle outbreak,
suggesting a legacy effect. In contrast to previous snapshot studies of nest webs, our dynamic approach reveals how the role of each cavity producer, and thus quantitative network architecture, can vary over
time. The increase in interaction diversity with the beetle outbreak adds to growing evidence
that insect outbreaks can increase components of biodiversity in forest ecosystems at various
temporal scales. The observed changes in (quantitative) network architecture contrast with the
relatively stable (qualitative) architecture of empirical mutualistic networks that have been
studied to date. However, they are consistent with recent theory on the importance of
population fluctuations in driving network architecture. Our results support the view that
models should allow for the possibility of rewiring (species switching partners) to avoid
overestimation of secondary extinction risk.
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