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  title info:
    title: Avian response to road construction noise with emphasis on the endangered golden-cheeked warbler
  name:
    name part: Lackey, Melissa A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Morrison, Michael L.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Noise pollution can mask or distort bird songs, which inhibits mating success, predator detection, and parental response to begging calls. Road noise can cause lowered density and reproductive success in songbirds. I examined the impact of construction noise on reproductive success and territory selection of golden-cheeked warblers (Dendroica chrysoparia) at 3 sites: adjacent to road construction, adjacent to road-noise only, and a control with no noise or construction activity. I also examined birds' responses to experimental playback of construction noise to determine if warblers alter behavior in the presence of introduced road construction noise, if they have habituated to construction noise, and whether habituation is hindering their reproductive success. I used the Vickery reproductive index to evaluate productivity and automatic recording units to assess the levels of ambient noise in each site. From 2007-2009, productivity was stable in the road-noise only site and showed more annual variation in the construction and control sites; productivity was nearly identical in the latter 2 sites in 2008 and 2009. There was no significant difference in productive territory locations based on distance from road. Ambient noise was similar in the construction and roadnoise only sites but significantly different from the control. To examine habituation and territory placement, I (1) used construction noise playback to individual birds and evaluated occurrence of behavioral response as a function of distance from the roadway, and (2) established broadcast stations that simulate construction noise to determine impacts on territory selection. Of 88 surveys, 6 birds responded to construction noise playback. I conducted 18 control surveys and observed 1 behavioral response. All birds that responded were located greater than or equal to 140 m from the road. I established 3 broadcast stations per season in 2008 and 2009. In each year I placed broadcast units on the edges of rand…
  note: by Melissa Anne Lackey.
  note: "Major Subject: Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-08-09 15:09:44).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7877
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major wildlife and fisheries sciences
  subject:
    topic: habituation
  subject:
    topic: golden-cheeked warbler
  subject:
    topic: road construction noise
  subject:
    topic: reproductive success
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7877
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 110817
    record change date: 20151202142304.0
    record identifier: in00002707372