Habitat suitability of the yellow rail in south-central Manitoba
| dc.contributor.author | Martin, Kristen | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Manseau, Micheline (Natural Resources Institute and Parks Canada) Bazin, Ron (Canadian Wildlife Service) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Koper, Nicola (Natural Resources Institute) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-09-21T21:49:45Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-09-21T21:49:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-09-21 | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Natural Resources Management | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Natural Resources Management (M.N.R.M.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Little is known about the distribution and habitat suitability of yellow rails (Coturnicops noveboracensis) throughout their breeding range. Yellow rail and vegetation surveys were conducted at 80 wetlands in south-central Manitoba in 2010-2011 to evaluate the effectiveness of repeat-visit, call-broadcast night surveys for detecting this species and habitat associations of this species at the 3-km landscape, patch, and plot scales. Yellow rails were detected at 44% of the study wetlands. Yellow rail detection was imperfect (0.63 in each year), but call-broadcast increased the number of yellow rails detected. Future yellow rail survey efforts should employ call-broadcast and at least three surveys per survey point. Yellow rail presence was positively influenced by the amount of marsh/fen in the landscape and the proportion of rushes at the study wetlands. These characteristics should be considered when identifying potential yellow rail habitat in south-central Manitoba. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2012 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/8911 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | yellow rail | en_US |
| dc.subject | Coturnicops noveboracensis | en_US |
| dc.subject | wetland | en_US |
| dc.subject | marsh bird | en_US |
| dc.subject | call-broadcast | en_US |
| dc.subject | habitat selection | en_US |
| dc.subject | species-at-risk | en_US |
| dc.subject | Manitoba | en_US |
| dc.title | Habitat suitability of the yellow rail in south-central Manitoba | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
| local.subject.manitoba | yes | en_US |