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  title info:
    title: Ecology of Attwater's prairie chicken in relation to land management practices on the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge
  name:
    name part: Morrow, Michael Eugene
    name part: 1958-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Silvy, Nova J.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Slack, R. Douglas
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Smeins, Fred E.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Swank, Wendell G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1986
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 100 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: Radio telemetry equipment was used to collect habitat use, movement and survival data on 49 Attwater's prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido attwateri) from March 1983-July 1985 on the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge. Annual adult survival was estimated between 10.8%, and 35.5%. Nest success averaged 35% for the 3 years of the study. Survival of entire brood units was estimated at 34% 8 weeks after hatching. Annual home range size for females averaged 595 ha, while that for males averaged 360 ha. Male movements were greatest during the early booming period, and least during the summer period. Movements by nonreproductive females were reduced during December-February, increased during the March-May nesting season, and then declined during the early summer months. Of 8 relatively extensive moves by females averaging 3.8 km, 5 were to fallow rice fields south of the refuge. Maximum rate of movement for a brood was 176 m/hour by a 1-2-day-old brood. By 7-10 days post-hatching, hens with broods had moved an average 0.7 km away from their nest sites. Second-year and older burns on loamy grassland areas were selected with the greatest intensity of all habitat types during winter and spring by males and nonreproductive females. A variety of habitat types were used during summer and fall by these birds. Rank correlations of habitat use with vegetation structural measurements taken from transects, and Chi-square comparisons of mean structural characteristics of habitats used to those available, suggested that quality grassland cover with obstruction of vision values in the 2-dm range were important during the critical winter and nesting periods. Eighty-five percent of the 26 nests found during the study were in 3rd-year or older burns. Grazing should be regulated so that clumped midgrass in the 2.5-dm range is available for nesting by the 3rd growing season after a burn. Prior to 15 June, broods used grassland stands typified by 2nd-year and older burns on lo…
  note: "Major subject: Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1986
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-97).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Greater prairie chicken
  subject:
    topic: Wildlife habitat improvement
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Colorado County
  subject:
    topic: Wildlife management
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Colorado County
  subject:
    topic: Major wildlife and fisheries sciences
  subject:
    geographic: Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-25074
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 880623
    record change date: 20220104090746.0
    record identifier: in00000017104
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng