ELUCIDATING RECRUITMENT STRESSORS FOR THE MARYLAND STATE ENDANGERED COMMON TERN (Sterna hirundo) THROUGH USE OF A MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM ...

• Main Author: Marban, Paul Ramon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland 2018
• Subjects: Wildlife conservation; Wildlife management; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; common tern; island loss; Maryland; waterbird; wildlife conservation; Tern Island; Common tern; Sterna hirundo
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13016/g5kh-tp08; http://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/21666

In this thesis, I monitored two breeding colonies of the Maryland state endangered common tern (Sterna hirundo) using a surveillance system composed of video cameras and temperature loggers. This system was coupled with an in-depth image analysis of Landsat scenes to quantify island loss in the Ches...