Predicting Future Range Expansion of Whooping Crane (Grus americana) Winter Habitat Using Long-Term Census and Remotely Sensed Data

• Main Author: Davis, Nicole
• Other Authors: Hardy, Thomas B., Green, M. Clay, Jensen, Jennifer, Schwinning, Susan, Smith, Elizabeth H.
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Whooping crane; Species distribution model; Rule-based model; Habitat suitability; Maxent; Whooping crane > Habitat > Texas; Remote sensing; Canada; Northwest Territories; Wood Buffalo; Wood Buffalo National Park
• Online Access: https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/8324

The whooping crane (Grus americana) is one of the most threatened crane species in the world and has been identified as an endangered species since 1967. The last wild-population of the whooping crane, the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population (AWBP), breeds in Wood Buffalo National Park and surrounding a...