Spatiotemporal dynamics of songbird breeding in arctic-boreal North America ...

• Main Author: Oliver, Ruth Yvonne
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Columbia University 2019
• Subjects: Environmental sciences; Ecology; FOS: Biological sciences; Songbirds > Habitat; Songbirds > Migration; Birds > Breeding; Ecosystem health; Climatic changes; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-43s3-9t87; https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/d8-43s3-9t87

The high northern latitudes of North America are undergoing rapid climatic change with acute impacts to the ecosystems in which millions of songbirds breed each year. The goal of this dissertation is to improve understanding of how concurrent and interacting changes in environmental and land surface conditions influence annual movements and habitat selections of long distance migratory birds who must navigate the mosaic of changing North American ecosystems. Chapter 1 presents novel automated bioacoustic methods for estimating arrival dates of the songbird community to their arctic breeding grounds. Automated acoustic networks could vastly expand the spatiotemporal coverage of wildlife observations. However, the enormous datasets that autonomous recorders typically generate demand automated analyses that remain largely undeveloped. Chapter 1 demonstrates novel machine learning and signal processing techniques for estimating songbird community arrival dates near Toolik Field Station which agreed well with ...