Download or read book Habitat Characteristics of Mexican Spotted Owls Strix Occidentalis Lucida in the Canyonlands of Southern Utah written by Leah R. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I studied the habitat characteristics of Mexican Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis lucida), a federally threatened species, in the Canyonlands region of southern Utah. Vegetative and geologic features were measured within 10m wide belt plots at each current or historic nest/roost site. Based on our findings, past research, and species life history characteristics, I constructed a species distribution model (SDM) predicting Mexican Spotted Owl distribution in Utah for the Colorado Plateau region. The SDM was generated using the following inputs as important habitat variables: elevation, aspect, surface ratio, curvature, slope, geology, and vegetation. Program R was used for model development and generation. The SDM was generated using an ensemble model approach by combining three modeling techniques: random forest, logistic regression, and maximum entropy. This study combines measured habitat characteristics, with sophisticated geographic information system (GIS) tools and SDMs to provide managers with an informative and useful toolkit for Mexican Spotted Owl conservation.
Download or read book Exploring Relationships Among Recreation Habitat Type and Mexican Spotted Owls on the Colorado Plateau in Southern Utah written by Chad Evan Hockenbary and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) was listed as "threatened" in 1993 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In Utah, the spotted owl is associated with rocky canyons that attract high levels of human recreation. Recreation could potentially have negative effects on the owl. I investigated roost behavior, territorial occupancy rates, and reproduction in canyon habitats that differed in recreation level and habitat condition (e.g., xeric versus mesic environments). Surveys were conducted in four areas in Utah: Zion and Capitol Reef National Parks, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, and the Cedar Mesa-Elk Ridge highland. In Chapter 2, I evaluated possible differences in behaviors by fledglings across different levels of recreation. Fledgling diurnal behaviors were dependent on recreation level (P
Download or read book Final Recovery Plan for the Mexcian Spotted Owl Strix Occidentalis Lucida written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1993 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) listed the Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida; "owl") as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Critical habitat for the Mexican spotted owl was designated in 2004, comprising approximately 3.5 million hectares (ha) (8.6 million acres [ac]) on Federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah (69 FR 53182). Within the critical habitat boundaries, critical habitat includes protected and restricted habitats as defined in the original Mexican Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, completed in 1995. The species' recovery priority number is 9C, pursuant to the Endangered and Threatened Species Listing and Recovery Priority Guidelines (48 FR 43098). The Mexican spotted owl meets the species recovery priority 9C category due to its moderate degree of threat, high recovery potential, taxonomic classification as a subspecies, and conflict with construction or other economic activities. Surveys since the 1995 Recovery Plan have increased our knowledge of owl distribution but not necessarily of owl abundance. An owl site is an area with a high probability of being used by a single or a pair of adult or subadult owls for nesting, roosting, or foraging. For the current revision, the Recovery Team compiled over 1,300 owl sites known today in the U.S. portion of the owl's range (Table II.1; Table B.1 in Appendix B). The increase in the number of owl sites is mainly a product of new surveys being completed within previously unsurveyed areas (e.g., several National Parks within southern Utah, Grand Canyon in Arizona, Guadalupe National Park in West Texas, Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas, Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado, and Cibola National Forest in New Mexico), with only a few additions to numbers of sites recorded for previously well-surveyed National Forests. Thus, an increase in abundance cannot be inferred from these data."
Download or read book Mexican Spotted Owl Reproduction Home Range and Habitat Associations in Grand Canyon National Park written by Timothy Scott Bowden and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican spotted owls (Strix occidentalis lucida) are nocturnal avian predators that are widely distributed in the southwest U.S. and northern Mexico. In 1993, the lucida subspecies was listed as threatened in response to concern over the loss of forest habitats to which the owl is widely associated. However, in the northwestern corner of their range spotted owls primarily inhabit steep-walled rocky canyons. Owl populations inhabiting this region have received less attention than populations using forests, although, canyon populations are important to the persistence of the subspecies, and are subject to different environmental pressures. I investigated the breeding ecology and home range characteristics of Mexican spotted owls within Grand Canyon which supports both forest and rocky canyon habitat. During the study from 2004 - 2006, female fecundity (mean = 0.86), calculated as the number of female fledglings per paired female, was relatively high compared to values reported previously for Mexican spotted owls. Five adult male owls were radio-tracked during the breeding season. I used minimum convex polygons and fixed kernel estimates to describe home range size (mean = 356 ha and 372 ha, respectively) and generated adaptive kernels to describe areas of concentrated use within home ranges. I used GIS to describe vegetation and geology cover types associated with owl use areas. This information was used to determine if spotted owls used landscape cover types disproportionately to their availability. At a landscape level, spotted owl telemetry locations were positively correlated with piñyon-juniper vegetation that occurred within canyons as well as with the Redwall and Muav geologic layers (p
Download or read book Using Terrestrial Ecosystem Survey Data to Identify Potential Habitat for the Mexican Spotted Owl on National Forest System Lands written by Joseph L. Ganey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Habitat Characteristics of Mexican Spotted Owl Nest Sites on the Alpine Ranger District Apache National Forest Arizona 1993 written by John A. Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Movements and Habitat Utilization by Mexican Spotted Owls Within the Canyonlands of Utah written by David William Willey and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning from the Land written by Linda M. Hill and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Risk Assessment of the Mexican Spotted Owl Under a Spatially weighted Foraging Regime at the Los Alamos National Laboratory written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Analysis of Critical Habitat Designation for the Mexican Spotted Owl written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dietary Overlap Between Sympatric Mexican Spotted and Great Horned Owls in Arizona written by Joseph L. Ganey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We estimated diet composition of sympatric Mexican spotted (Strix occidentalis lucida, n = 7 pairs of owls) and great horned owls (Bubo virginianus, n = 4 pairs) in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) - Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) forest, northern Arizona. Both species preyed on mammals, birds, and insects; great horned owls also ate lizards. Mammals dominated the diet of both species. Mammals comprised 63 and 62% of all prey items identified in diets of spotted and great horned owls, respectively, and 94 and 95% of prey biomass. Both species primarily preyed on a few groups of small mammals. Observed overlap in diet composition between species (0.95) was greater than expected based on null models of diet overlap, and the size range of prey taken overlapped entirely. Mean prey mass was similar for both species (great horned owl, 47.0 ± 7.4 g [SE], n = 94 items; spotted owl, 40.1 ± 1.8 g, n = 1,125 items). Great horned owls consumed larger proportions of diurnally active prey than spotted owls, which primarily consumed nocturnally active mammals. Our results, coupled with a previous analysis showing that these owls foraged in the same general areas (Ganey and others 1997), suggests that they could compete for food resources, which are assumed to be limiting in at least some years. They may minimize the potential for resource competition, however, by concentrating foraging activities in different habitats (Ganey and others 1997) and by foraging at different times, when different suites of prey species are active.
Download or read book The Influence of Visitors Habitat and Methodology on Mexican Spotted Owl Strik Occidentalis Lucida Occupancy and Detection in a Remote Canyon Environment written by Kirsten Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "National Parks across America play an important role in protecting natural resources and providing access to recreation for visitors. However, these goals may come into conflict as visitation rates rise. Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona is one of the most highly visited parks in the United States, with over 6 million visitors a year. Backcountry hiking and camping are popular activities in the park, and many highly visited hiking trails and campgrounds overlap with known breeding areas of a threatened species, Mexican spotted owl. In this thesis, I explore the intersection of recreation and wildlife conservation at this popular park through the lens of long-term occupancy of a threatened species. My aims are to (1) assess the potential impact of visitor use on long-term occupancy (2001 to 2021) of Mexican spotted owls at the Grand Canyon, and (2) evaluate the potential for autonomous recording units (ARUs) to complement current survey protocols. To assess long-term occupancy, I ran a multi-season occupancy model using 20-years of call-back survey data conducted in protected activity centers (PACs), along with measures of visitor use and habitat characteristics. To assess the use of ARUs, I ran a single-season occupancy model using three years of data, which was collected using autonomous recording units in PACs from 2019 to 2021. I found that visitor use in the Grand Canyon had no effect on owl occupancy, which remained stable across PACs over the 20-year study period. Owl occupancy remained high across the 20-year survey period and was strongly informed by habitat characteristics. Specifically, Mexican spotted owls occupied PACs with higher proportions of mixed shrubland habitat and Supai formation. Conversely, owl occupancy decreased in PACs with more pinyon-juniper woodland habitat and Redwall Limestone. Assessing the use of ARUs as a complement to current protocol, ARUs were found to be a useful tool for supplementing traditional call-back surveys, particularly at PACs with extremely limited access. In particular, ARUs detected Mexican spotted owls with high probability early in the breeding season prior to the official call-back survey period, which allows managers to extend their monitoring period. In highly remote PACs, ARUs were more suitable than call-backs because they could collect more data with less effort. Incorporating this method into Spotted Owl survey protocol may be essential for improving monitoring of under-sampled locations, which is a critical component for assessing long-term trends for this species across its range."--Boise State University ScholarWorks.
Download or read book Spotted Owl Strix Occidentalis written by Mark Zarn and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Distribution and Habitat Characteristics of Mexican Spotted Owls in Zion National Park Utah written by Sarah E. Rinkevich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Technical Report RMRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Habitats Used Abundance and Distribution of the Mexican Spotted Owl Strix Occidentalis Lucida on National Forest System Lands written by Keith W. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mexican Spotted Owl Strix Occidentalis Lucida written by Charles Burnett McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
