[Forest-list] 2014-02-09 NRMI: This Issue: Neotropical/Land Bird Seasonal Restrictions and Some Other Good Things

[H. Gyde Lund]

*2014-02-09**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue:*/Neotropical/Land Bird Seasonal Restrictions/* and Some 
Other Good Things

*NEOTROPICAL/LAND BIRD SEASONAL RESTRICTIONS -- *Earlier this year I 
received an inquiry about seasonal operating restrictions for activities 
in neotropical/land bird habitat during their nesting season. Here are 
some sites that may be of interest.

Bishop, Timothy S. et al. n.d. *One for the Birds: The Corps of 
Engineers' "Migratory Bird Rule"* 
<http://www.appellate.net/articles/migrabirdrule.pdf>18 p.

Bock, Carl E.; et al.1993. *Effects of livestock grazing on neotropical 
migratory landbirds in western North America.* 
<https://www.blm.gov/epl-front-office/projects/lup/36511/45862/49563/Western%20Watersheds/Effects%20of%20Livestock%20Grazing%20on%20Neotropical%20Migratory%20Landbirds%20in%20West.pdf>**In: 
Finch, Deborah M.; Stangel, Peter W. (eds.). Status and management of 
neotropical migratory birds: September 21-25, 1992, Estes Park, 
Colorado. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-229. Fort Collins, Colo.: Rocky Mountain 
Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest 
Service: 296-309

Bonter DN et al. 2009. *Characteristics of important stopover locations 
for migrating birds: remote sensing with radar in the Great Lakes basin* 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18983598>.Conserv Biol. 23(2):440-8. 
Abstract.

Bonter, David N. et al.2003? *Are migratory birds selecting stopover 
sites based on landscape characteristics? Remote sensing with radar in 
the Great Lakes basin* 
<http://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/vtcfwru/Completed_Projects/Radar%20Paper1.pdf>. 31 
p.

Buler, J.J.; Diehl, R.H.; 2009. *Quantifying Bird Density During 
Migratory Stopover Using Weather Surveillance Radar, Geoscience and 
Remote Sensing* 
<http://sites.udel.edu/aeroecologyprogram/215-2/quantifying-bird-density-during-migratory-stopover-using-weather-surveillance-radar/>, 
IEEE Transactions 47(8):.2741-2751, Abstract.

Burke, Dawn et al.2008.. *A land manager's guide to conserving habitat 
for forest birds in southern Ontario.* 
<http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/stdprodconsume/groups/lr/@mnr/@forests/documents/document/stdprod_089387.pdf>**140 
p.

Cotton, Karen et al. 2009. *Saving Migratory Birds for Future 
Generations: The Success of the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation 
Act.* 
<http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/special_reports/act_songbirds.pdf>Compiled 
by American Bird Conservancy. 24 p.

DeSante David F. et al. 2005. *MoSI (Monitoreo de Sobrevivencia 
Invernal): Assessing Habitat-Specific Overwintering Survival of 
Neotropical Migratory Landbirds.* 
<http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr191/psw_gtr191_0926-0936_desante.pdf>USDA 
Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-191.926-936.

Finch, Deborah M.; Stangel, Peter W., eds. 1993. *Status and management 
of neotropical migratory birds* 
<http://dtl.lib.umt.edu/utils/getfile/collection/forest/id/394/filename/395.pdf>: 
September 21-25, 1992, Estes Park, Colorado. Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-229. 
Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky 
Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 422 p.

Finch, Deborah M.1991. *Population Ecology, Habitat Requirements, and 
Conservation of Neotropical Migratory Birds* 
<http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/documents/R2ES/LitCited/LPC_2012/Finch_1991.pdf>. 
USDA Forest Service GTR RM-205. 32 p.

Giese, Collette L. Adkins. 2010. *Spreading Its Wings: Using the 
Migratory Bird Treaty Act To Protect Habitat* 
<http://www.wmitchell.edu/lawreview/documents/9.AdkinsGiese.pdf>. 
William Mitchell Law Review. 22 p.

Goetz, Scott J. et al. 2010. *Lidar remote sensing variables predict 
breeding habitat of a Neotropical migrant bird* 
<http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/09-1670.1>. Ecology 
91:1569--1576.

*H.R. 39 (106th): Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act* 
<https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/106/hr39/text>**

Hamilton, H. Roger; Fischer, Richard A. 2001.*Do Corps of Engineers 
Lakes Benefit Neotropical Migratory Birds? 
<http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA391878>* RECNOTES Vol R-01-1

Haulton, Scott. 2008. *Does Logging During The Nesting Season Negatively 
Affect Neotropical Migratory Bird Populations* 
<http://www.in.gov/dnr/forestry/files/fo-NestingSeasonLogging.pdf>? A 
Literature Review. 9 p.

Hobson, K. A., et al. 2013. *An estimate of nest loss in Canada due to 
industrial forestry operations* 
<http://www.ace-eco.org/vol8/iss2/art5/ACE-ECO-2013-583.pdf>. Avian 
Conservation and Ecology 8(2): 21 p.

IELP. N.d. .*Petition to the Council for Environmental Cooperation to 
Enforce the Migratory Bird Treaty Act 
<http://law.lclark.edu/clinics/international_environmental_law_project/our_work/cec_petition/>*

Koford, Rolf R; Best, Louis B. 1996. *Management of agricultural 
landscapes for the conservation of Neotropical migratory birds* 
<http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/habitat/landscap/index.htm>. Pages 
68-88 in Frank R. Thompson, III, ed. Management of agricultural 
landscapes for the conservation of Neotropical migratory birds. U.S. 
Forest Service, General Technical Report. NC - 187. North Central Forest 
Experiment Station, St. Paul, MN.

Lawyer, George R. 1919. *Full text of "Federal protection of migratory 
birds".* 
<http://www.archive.org/stream/federalprotectio00lawyrich/federalprotectio00lawyrich_djvu.txt>

Liesbeth, Bortels et al. 2009? *Monitoring Wetlands along the 
Western-Greek Bird Migration Route: Amvrakikos Gulf (Greece).* 
<http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/218567.pdf>2 p.

Lundquist, Thomas R. 2013. *The Migratory Bird Treaty Act: An Overview* 
<http://www.crowell.com/files/the-migratory-bird-treaty-act-an-overview-crowell-moring.pdf>. 
6 p.

Means, Benjamin. 1998. *Prohibiting Conduct, Not Consequences: The 
Limited Reach of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act* 
<http://flightedbirds.org/fbwiki/images/1/1a/Mbta_law_review.pdf>*. 
*Michigan Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 3 (Dec., 1998), pp. 823-842. 21 p.

Miller, James R.; Hobbs, N. Thompson. 2000.*Recreational trails, human 
activity, and nest predation in lowland riparian areas.* 
<http://millerlab.nres.illinois.edu/pdfs/Recreational%20Trails,%20Human%20Activity,%20and%20Nest%20Predation%20in%20Lowland%20Riparian%20Areas.pdf>Landscape 
and Urban Planning 50: 227-236.

Mooore, Frank R.; Woodrey, Mark S. 1993. *Stopover Habitat and Its 
Importance in the Conservation of Landbird Migrants* 
<http://www.seafwa.org/resource/dynamic/private/PDF/MOORE-447-459.pdf>.Proc. 
Annu. Conf. Southeast. Assoc. Fish and Wild!. Agencies 47:447-459

Niemi, G., et al. 1998. *Ecological sustainability of birds in boreal 
forests.* 
<http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol2/iss2/art17/>Conservation Ecology 
[online] 2(2): 17

Renfrew, Rosalind B. et al, 2013, *Phenological matching across 
hemispheres in a long-distance migratory bir* 
<http://www.vtecostudies.org/PDF/Renfrew%20et%20al%202013%20D&D.pdf>d. 
Diversity Distrib.: 1--12

Rodenhouse, Nicholas.et al. 2003.*Multiple density-dependence mechanisms 
regulate a migratory bird population during the breeding season 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691488/pdf/14561272.pdf>*.Proc. 
R. Soc. Lond. B 2003 270, doi: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2438

Schroeder, Richard L. et al. 1998. *Selecting Habitat Management 
Strategies on Refuges.* 
<http://www.fort.usgs.gov/Products/Publications/3837/3837.pdf>Information and 
Technology Report USGS/BRD/ITR--1998-003. 23 p.

Stoel Rives. 2012. *Federal Court Holds That the Migratory Bird Treaty 
Act Does Not Apply to Lawful Activities That Result in the Incidental 
Taking of Protected Birds* <http://www.stoel.com/showalert.aspx?Show=9177>**

Swatantranl, Anu et al. 2012. *Mapping Migratory Bird Prevalence Using 
Remote Sensing Data Fusion.* 
<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0028922>PLOS 
One

Vanderlinder, Melina Santos et al.2011. *Classifying Westland Vegetation 
with Remote Sensing Techniques at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, 
Utah* <http://works.bepress.com/davidrosenberg/33/>. National 
Conference-Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Anaheim, CA. Jan. 
2011. Abstract

Weih, Robert C.et al.1996? *Applying GIS and Remote Sensing to Avian 
Research: A Case Study on the Ouachita National Forest* 
<http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc96/to300/pap273/p273.htm>. 


WSU. 1998. *Managing Forest Habitats for Migrant Songbirds* 
<http://ext.nrs.wsu.edu/publications/pdf/wildlife/misc0198.pdf>. 
MISC0198. 20 p.

Xiao, Xiangming et al. 2006. *Remote Sensing, Ecological Variables and 
Bird Migration* 
<http://www.fao.org/avianflu/conferences/rome_avian/documents/xiao.pdf>. 
FAO/OIE International Scientific Conference on Avian Influenza and Wild 
Birds. 5 slides.

*SOME PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

Kandel, P.N. et al. 2013. *Monitoring Aboveground Forest Biomass: A 
Comparison of Cost and Accuracy between LiDAR-Assisted Multisource 
Programme (LAMP) and Field-based Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) in 
Nepal 
<http://report.arbonaut.com/arbo_site_uploaded_files/pdf/pdf/Monitoring%20Aboveground%20Forest%20Biomass%20A%20Comparison%20of%20Cost%20and%20Accuracy%20between%20LiDAR-Assisted%20Multisource%20Programme%20%28LAMP%29%20and%20Field-based%20Forest%20Resource%20Assessment%20%28FRA%29%20in%20Nepal.pdf>*. 
Presented at International Conference on Forest, People and Climate: 
Changing Paradigm 28-30 August 2013, Pokhara, Nepal. 14 p. From Basanta 
Raj Gautam, Arbonaut Ltd.

Keeler-Wolf, Todd et al. 2007. *Community Classification and 
Nomenclature 
<https://cnps.org/cnps/vegetation/pdf/grassland_stromberg07_ch3.pdf>* 
(California). 14 p.

Kimbrough, Liz. 2014. *Tree islands more effective way to replant the 
world's forests 
<http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0109-kimbrough-tree-islands.html>*, Mongabay.

Komers, P.E.; Stanojevic, Z. 2013. *Rates of Disturbance vary by data 
resolution: implications for conservation schedules using the Alberta 
Boreal Forest as a case study. 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12266/abstract>* Global 
Change Biol. 19(9):2916-2928. Abstract.

Kovács, F. 2013. *GIS analysis of short and long term hydrogeographical 
changes on a nature conservation area affected by aridification. 
<http://www.ubm.ro/CJEES/viewTopic.php?topicId=352>* Carpath. J. Earth 
Env. 8(3):113-124. Abstract.

Lambin, Eric F. et al. 2001. *The causes of land-use and land-cover 
change: moving beyond the myths. 
<http://startinternational.org/library/archive/files/lulcc-myths_18ecdc1d28.pdf> 
*Global Environmental Change 11: 261--269.

Le Houérou, H.N. 1980. *Browse in Africa: The current state of 
knowledge* 
<http://www.ilri.cgiar.org/InfoServ/Webpub/fulldocs/BROWSE_IN_AFRICA/toc.htm#TopOfPage>*_. 
_*Papers presented at the International Symposium on Browse in Africa . 
Addis Ababa, April 8-12, 1980

Leslie, H.M., et al. 2013. *How good science and stories can go 
hand-in-hand 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12080/abstract>*. 
Conserv. Biol. 27(5):1126-1129. Abtrract.

Liu, Y., et al. 2013. *Identifying priority areas for the conservation 
of ecosystem services using GIS-based multicriteria evaluation. 
<http://www.pol.j.ecol.cbe-pan.pl/abstract/ab61_3_01.pdf>* Pol. J. Ecol. 
61(3):415-430. Page 1

López-Carr, D.; Burgdorfer, J. 2013. *Deforestation drivers: population, 
migration, and tropical land use 
<http://www.environmentmagazine.org/Archives/Back%20Issues/2013/January-February%202013/Deforestation-full.html>. 
*Environment 55(1):3-11.

Lund, J. F., et al, 2010. *Perception-based methods to evaluate 
conservation impact in forests managed through popular participation* 
<http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss3/art5/>. Ecology and Society 
15(3): 5. [online]:

Lwoga A.B.; Urio, N.A. 1984? *An inventory of livestock feed resources 
in Tanzania* 
<http://www.ilri.cgiar.org/InfoServ/Webpub/fulldocs/X5548E/X5548E02.HTM>**

Mabugu R and Chitiga M, 2002. *Accounting for forest resources in 
Zimbabwe* <http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/18021/1/dp020002.pdf>. 
CEEPA Discussion Paper No 7, CEEPA. University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 
South Africa. 56 p.

Maina, J. et al, 2013. *Human deforestation outweighs future climate 
change impacts of sedimentation on coral reefs. 
<http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/130604/ncomms2986/full/ncomms2986.html>* 
Nat. Commun. 4:1986.

Mannetje, Leendert't 2002. *Global Issues of Rangeland Management 
<http://www.date.hu/acta-agraria/2002-08i/mannetje.pdf>*. 8 p.

Marion, Jeffery L.1991. *Developing a natural resource inventory and 
monitoring program for visitor impacts on recreation sites: a procedural 
manual 
<http://profile.usgs.gov/myscience/upload_folder/ci2011Jul1214475436429NPS%20Monitoring%20methods%20rpt.pdf>*. 
Natural Resources Report NPS/NRVT/NRR-91/06. 67 p.

Masubelele, M.L., et al. 2013. *Vegetation change (1988-2010) in 
Camdeboo National Park (South Africa), using fixed-point photo 
monitoring: The role of herbivory and climate 
<http://www.koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/view/1127/1577>*. 
Koedoe 55(1):1127.

Mayfield, M.M., et al. 2013. *Differences in forest plant functional 
trait distributions across land-use and productivity gradients 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23825137>*. Am. J. Bot. 
100(7):1356-1368. Abstract.

Molinier, Matthieu et al. 2011. *Interactive Basal Area Estimations from 
Mobile Phone Images 
<http://www.kaukokartoituskerho.fi/abs2011/Molinier.pdf>, *Presented at 
Finnish Remote Sensing Days, November 2011, Espoo, Finland. From 
Matthieu Molinier,VTT Earth Observation

Muenchow, J., et al. 2013. *Predictive mapping of species richness and 
plant species' distributions of a Peruvian fog oasis along an 
altitudinal gradient 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/btp.12049/abstract>*. 
Biotropica 45(5):557-566. Abstract.

Müllerová, J., et al. 2013. *Remote sensing as a tool for monitoring 
plant invasions: testing the effects of data resolution and image 
classification approach on the detection of a model plant species 
/Heracleum mantegazzianum/ (giant hogweed). 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.12083/abstract>* Int. 
J. Appl. Earth Obs. 25:55-65. Highlights

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*Pay It Forward/-- Cheers, Gyde/*

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