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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: influence of habitat component interspersion on habitat selection of northern bobwhite on the Rio Grande Plains of Texas
  name:
    name part: Kuvlesky, William Peter
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Silvy, Nova J.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  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: Weller, Milton W.
    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: 1990
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 102 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: A study was conducted from June 1987 through August 1988 to determine if patterns of habitat-component interspersion influence habitat selection of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) in the Rio Grande Plains of south Texas. Research was conducted on the La Copita Research Area, a property owned and operated by the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Jim Wells County. Habitat was evaluated on a fine-scale and broad-scale of resolution at quail telemetry locations and at randomly selected sites that represented available habitat. Fine-scale habitat data were collected from 8-m circular plots on the ground, while broad-scale data were collected from 100-m circular plots from an aerial photograph. Data were collected during 3 seasons: summer 1987 (nesting-brooding), fall-winter 1987-88 (covey), and spring-early summer 1988 (pairing-breeding). On both scales of resolution, during each season, bobwhites selected habitats with a higher degree of habitat-component interspersion, or greater patchiness, than was generally available on the study site. In addition, bobwhites tended to select progressively patchier habitats each season as environmental conditions became drier. Forbs appeared to be the most important fine-scale habitat component within the interspersion matrix as forb patch-to-patch distances was the only variable that was consistently important each season. Grass, shrubs and bare ground also were identified as important habitat components. Narrow portions of roads were identified as the only important broad-scale-habitat component. Important fine-scale and broad-scale-habitat components were not correlated with one another. Of the various vegetative successional stages occurring on the study area, the early stages of shrub cluster development were thought to offer the patterns of habitat-component interspersion most beneficial to bobwhites. Agricultural management practices that reverse plant succession are recommended as techniques to improve habitat…
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Wildlife and fisheries sciences."
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1990
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Quails
    topic: Habitat
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Jim Wells County
  subject:
    topic: Northern bobwhite
  subject:
    topic: Game bird management
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Jim Wells County
  subject:
    topic: Game bird management
  subject:
    topic: Quails
    topic: Habitat
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
    geographic: Jim Wells County
  subject:
    topic: Major wildlife and fisheries sciences
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 910515
    record change date: 20200904152512.0
    record identifier: in00001008705
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng