Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Naugle, David E.
• Gleason, Jeffrey S.
• Jenks, Jonathan A.
• Higgins, Kenneth F.
• Mammenga, Paul W.
• Nusser, Sarah M.

Titel

Factors influencing wetland use by Canada geese

Ist Teil von

• Wetlands (Wilmington, N.C.), 1997-12, Vol.17 (4), p.552-558

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Nature B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Seasonal and semi-permanent wetlands in eastern South Dakota were surveyed in 1995 and 1996 to identify habitat characteristics influencing wetland use by Canada geese (Branta canadensis maxima). Position of a wetland within the landscape and its area were important landscape-scale features influencing wetland use by geese. Our delineation of potential Canada goose habitat using a wetland geographic information system indicated that distribution and area of semi-permanent wetlands likely limit Canada goose occurrence in regions outside the Prairie Coteau. Periodicity in hydrologic cycles within landscapes also may influence goose use of wetlands in eastern South Dakota.