Forty years of landscape change in Attwater's Prairie Chicken habitat within the Coastal Prairie of Texas /

198 1, and 1990 were used. Potential prairie chicken habitat

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McKinney, Lloyd B., 1952-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
Subjects:
Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy

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245 1 0 |a Forty years of landscape change in Attwater's Prairie Chicken habitat within the Coastal Prairie of Texas /  |c by Lloyd B. McKinney, Jr. 
264 1 |a [Place of publication not identified] :  |b [publisher not identified] ;  |c 1996. 
300 |a ix, 73 leaves :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 28 cm. 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
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500 |a "Major subject: Rangeland Ecology and Management". 
500 |a Vita. 
502 |b M.S.  |c Texas A&M University  |d 1996. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references: pages 66-72. 
520 |a 198 1, and 1990 were used. Potential prairie chicken habitat  
520 |a 29,343 ha to 9,355 ha in 1990. The number of prairie patches  
520 |a 3,23 5 m to 1, 3 67 m in 1992. The remaining lekking sites  
520 |a 3,240 ha Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge.  
520 |a 5,868 ha to 446 ha over the same period. Coarse landscape  
520 |a Aerial photographs acquired at intervals from 1952 to 1990  
520 |a Aerial photographs from 1952, 1964, 1982, and 1990 were used.  
520 |a an agricultural/mining area without any management plan.  
520 |a area is comprised of 161,000 ha of cropland, rangeland and  
520 |a Attwater's prairie chicken presence within the Coastal  
520 |a chickens abandoned portions of the landscape during this  
520 |a classified, digitized and entered into a geographic  
520 |a declined from 34 to 8. Mean distance to nearest leks ranged  
520 |a decreased from an initial 102,301 ha to 54,972 ha in 1990.  
520 |a destruction and fragmentation. Two areas with continued  
520 |a development, urbanization, mining (oil and natural gas) and  
520 |a for change. Prairie chicken population declined by 89% over  
520 |a from a minimum of 1, 1 14 m to 2,821 m while sites were  
520 |a increased from 5 to 21 while mean patch size decreased from  
520 |a increasingly aggregated in the landscape. The south study  
520 |a information system for comparison and analysis. The north  
520 |a managed for prairie chickens. The southern area represents  
520 |a metric which showed a significant change. Prairie chicken  
520 |a oil production fields. Aerial photographs from 19 5 5, 1969,  
520 |a patch size decreased from 25,575 ha to 5,497 ha for the same  
520 |a period. Coarse landscape statistics did not suggest any  
520 |a population declined by 94% over 35 years. Mapped lekking  
520 |a Potential prairie chicken habitat decreased from an initial  
520 |a Prairie were selected to study long-term landscape change.  
520 |a sites from 1979 to 1992 varied from 15 to 32. Prairie  
520 |a statistics indicated area and perimeter were the best tests  
520 |a study area is comprised of 56,000 ha and centered on the  
520 |a the 40 years. Mapped lekking sites from 1979 to 1992  
520 |a The Gulf Coastal Prairie is one of the most intensively  
520 |a The northern area represents an agricultural dominated area  
520 |a The number of prairie patches increased from 4 to 10 as mean  
520 |a their infrastructure have served as agents of prairie  
520 |a time, reducing mean distance to nearest lekking site from  
520 |a utilized natural region,- in Texas. Agricultural  
520 |a were highly aggregated in the landscape in 1992. 
520 |a were used to determine land cover. Photographs were  
530 |a Also available online. 
530 |a Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. 
650 4 |a Major rangeland ecology and management. 
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