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Zusatztext "Really interesting from a range of angles." Informationen zum Autor Christine A. Ribic is Associate Professor of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin! Unit Leader! US Geological Survey! Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit. Frank R. Thompson! III is a Research Wildlife Biologist in the Sustainable Management of Central Hardwood Ecosystems and Landscapes Unit of the Northern Research Station of the USDA at the University of Missouri-Columbia Pamela A. Pietz is a Research Wildlife Biologist in the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center of the USGS in Jamestown! North Dakota. Klappentext "Until recently! inferring identities of predators and monitoring cryptic behaviors at the nest was time-consuming! often with anecdotal results. No more. Video nest surveillance! so aptly revealed in this volume! has ushered in a new era of data collection that allows field workers to link environmental factors with such aspects as the temporal dynamics of predator communities in relation to what the birds are doing at their nests! thus removing much of the guesswork of earlier studies."--Spencer G. Sealy! University of Manitoba "Video Surveillance of Nesting Birds shatters earlier beliefs about how birds interact with nest predators. Much of what we thought we knew about nesting and its hazards was flat-out wrong! as authors in this book discovered by using modern technology in the field. As simple as we would like our models of animal behavior to be! this book shows that reality is far more complex and nuanced."--Douglas H. Johnson! University of Minnesota Zusammenfassung Declining bird populations! especially those that breed in North American grasslands! have stimulated extensive research on factors that affect nest failure and reduced reproductive success. Until now! this research has been hampered by the difficulties inherent in observing nest activities. Video Surveillance of Nesting Birds highlights the use of miniature video cameras and recording equipment yielding new important and some unanticipated insights into breeding bird biology! including previously undocumented observations of hatching! incubation! fledging! diurnal and nocturnal activity patterns! predator identification! predator-prey interactions! and cause-specific rates of nest loss. This seminal contribution to bird reproductive biology uses tools capable of generating astonishing results with the potential for fresh insights into bird conservation! management! and theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Foreword Part 1. Synthesis/Overview Chapter 1: Knowledge gained from video-monitoring grassland passerine nests Pamela J. Pietz! Diane A. Granfors and Christine A. Ribic Chapter 2: Conservation implications when the nest predators are known Frank R. Thompson! III and Christine A. Ribic Chapter 3: Gamebirds and nest cameras: present and future Susan N. Ellis-Felege and John P. Carroll Part 2: Breeding Behavior Chapter 4: Hatching and fledging information from grassland passerine nests Pamela J. Pietz! Diane A. Granfors and Todd A. Grant Chapter 5: Attendance patterns and survival of Western Meadowlark nests Larkin A. Powell! Matthew D. Giovanni! Scott Groepper! Mitchell L. Reineke and Walter H. Schacht Chapter 6: Sprague's Pipit incubation behavior Stephen K. Davis and Teslin G. Holmes Chapter 7: Patterns of incubation behavior in Northern Bobwhites Jonathan S. Burnam! Gretchen Turner! Susan N. Ellis-Felege! William E. Palmer! D. Clay Sisson and John P. Carroll Chapter 8: The influence of weather on shorebird incubation Paul A. Smith! Sarah A. Dauncey! H. Grant Gilchrist and Mark R. Forbes ...
