Vegetation characteristics of Snow Goose nest sites
The vegetation at a Lesser Snow Goose breeding colony was examined to determine if particular plant species or species associations were characteristic of the nest sites of the geese. A stepwise discriminant analysis revealed that nest sites could be satisfactorily distinguished from the ambient veg...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/b79-186 2023-12-17T10:25:47+01:00 Vegetation characteristics of Snow Goose nest sites Heagy, M. I. Cooke, F. 1979 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/b79-186 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b79-186 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Botany volume 57, issue 14, page 1502-1504 ISSN 0008-4026 Plant Science journal-article 1979 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/b79-186 2023-11-19T13:38:16Z The vegetation at a Lesser Snow Goose breeding colony was examined to determine if particular plant species or species associations were characteristic of the nest sites of the geese. A stepwise discriminant analysis revealed that nest sites could be satisfactorily distinguished from the ambient vegetation using 2 of the 29 plant species growing in the quadrats. These two species, lyme grass (Elymus arenarius ssp. mollis) and arctic daisy (Chrysanthemum arcticum ssp. polare) were strongly associated with Snow Goose nest sites.Possible explanations for the association are examined. It is suggested that rather than a cause and effect relationship between plants and nest sites, E. arenarius and C. arcticum have similar ecological requirements to those of the geese for a nesting site. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Arctic Canadian Journal of Botany 57 14 1502 1504 |
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The vegetation at a Lesser Snow Goose breeding colony was examined to determine if particular plant species or species associations were characteristic of the nest sites of the geese. A stepwise discriminant analysis revealed that nest sites could be satisfactorily distinguished from the ambient vegetation using 2 of the 29 plant species growing in the quadrats. These two species, lyme grass (Elymus arenarius ssp. mollis) and arctic daisy (Chrysanthemum arcticum ssp. polare) were strongly associated with Snow Goose nest sites.Possible explanations for the association are examined. It is suggested that rather than a cause and effect relationship between plants and nest sites, E. arenarius and C. arcticum have similar ecological requirements to those of the geese for a nesting site. |
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