Patterns of Duck Community Composition in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada: Effects of Climate and Land Use

• Main Author: Raquel, Amelia Jaclyn 1992-
• Other Authors: Clark, Robert G, Wei, Yangdou D, Johnstone, Jill F, Gurney, Kirsty EB, Guo, Xulin, Brua, Robert B
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2016
• Subjects: waterfowl; Prairie Pothole Region; climate change; land use change; Canada; Spring Pond; Northern Shoveler; Shoveler
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7641

Shifts in the duck community composition in the Canadian Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) have been evident over the past 25 years for reasons that are not entirely clear. Several duck species have increased in abundance whereas others have remained stable, or have declined, despite shifts in agricultur...