Mortality in Aransas-Wood Buffalo Whooping Cranes: Timing, Location, and Causes

• Main Authors: Pearse, Aaron T., Brandt, David A., Hartup, Barry K., Bidwell, Mark T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2019
• Subjects: Animal Sciences; Behavior and Ethology; Biodiversity; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Environmental Policy; Life Sciences; Recreation; Parks and Tourism Administration; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsnpwrc/417; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usgsnpwrc/article/1416/viewcontent/Pearse_WCBC_2019_Mortality_in_Aransas.pdf

The Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population (AWBP) of Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) has experienced a population growth rate of approximately 4% for multiple decades (Butler et al., 2014a; Miller et al., 1974). Population growth for long-lived species of birds is generally highly sensitive to variation i...