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Mortality Of Parental Mountain Plovers (Charadrius Montanus) During The Post-Hatching Stage, Victoria J. Dreitz
Mortality Of Parental Mountain Plovers (Charadrius Montanus) During The Post-Hatching Stage, Victoria J. Dreitz
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Monitoring, management, and conservation of grassland birds are topics of importance because of widespread population declines. Annual estimates of survival are available for many species, however knowledge of how survival varies on a seasonal basis remains poor. Information on the relative effects of breeding, overwintering, and migratory periods on population dynamics is necessary for effective management. Mortality risks often vary with the stage of the breeding cycle. In precocial species, mortality risks of adult birds are often higher during post-hatching care than prehatching. Using a multistate modeling approach, I investigated the influence of both environmental characteristics, measured by habitat, and …