Surveys of salt marsh breeding birds using point counts

This data set contains the results of point count surveys of breeding birds in the salt marshes of the Plum Island Estuary. Surveys have been carried out each year in June beginning in 2004 and are ongoing. Currently six circles of 100 m diameter are being surveyed. Three of the circles are in plots...

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Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Plum Island Ecosystems LTERThe Ecosystems CenterMarine Biological Lab7 MBL StWoods HoleMA02543USA(508) 289 7485pie_im@mbl.eduhttp://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/ 2010
Subjects:
LTER
PIE
population dynamics
Plum Island
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
Mass Audubon
breeding birds
saltmarsh birds
saltmarsh sharp-tailed sparrow
point counts
Nelson Island
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.15428
http://metacat.lternet.edu/knb/metacat/knb-lter-pie.175.1/xml
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Summary:This data set contains the results of point count surveys of breeding birds in the salt marshes of the Plum Island Estuary. Surveys have been carried out each year in June beginning in 2004 and are ongoing. Currently six circles of 100 m diameter are being surveyed. Three of the circles are in plots that had been regularly hayed and three in unhayed plots. Currently only one of the plots is regularly hayed. 71 species recorded as of 2008. Most frequently encountered are Agelaius phoeniceus, Ammodramus caudacutus, Tringa semipalmata

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