Effects of Prairie Fragmentation on the Nest Success of Breeding Birds in the Midcontinental United States

By J. Herkert, D. L. Reinking, D. Wiedenfeld, M. Winter, J. L. Zimmerman, William E. Jensen, E. Finck, R. Koford, D. Wolfe, S. Sherrod and 3 more. 2003

248 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology

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1. C. Ribic
2. Rosalind B. Renfrew
3. N. Koper
4. F. Schmiegelow
5. Ø. Steifetten
6. S. Dale
7. J. Herkert
8. D. A. Seaman

Citations in the corpus

• Critical Demographic Parameters for Declining Songbirds Breeding in Restored Grasslands (2006, background): “Parasitism rates in our system were moderate compared to other grassland systems (Martin and Gavin 1995, Temple 2002, Herkert et al. 2003).”
• Multi-scale models of grassland passerine abundance in a fragmented system in Wisconsin (2008, background): “These patterns are presumed to be caused by effects of wooded edges on productivity (e.g., Herkert et al. 2003; but see Grant et al. 2006), although these effects may not be detectable in highly fragmented landscapes such as ours (Renfrew et al. 2005).”
• EDGE AVOIDANCE BY NESTING GRASSLAND BIRDS: A FUTILE STRATEGY IN A FRAGMENTED LANDSCAPE (2005, background): “…has conservation implications for birds that are area-sensitive during the breeding season, because they require or prefer larger patches of habitat and are less abundant and have lower productivity in smaller patches (e.g. Herkert 1994, Vickery et al. 1994, Bollinger 1995, Herkert et al. 2003).”
• Viability of an endangered population of ortolan buntings: The effect of a skewed operational sex ratio (2006, background): “…grassland and forest-breeding birds in North America (Anders et al., 1997; King et al., 1996; Porneluzi and Faaborg, 1999; Pietz and Granfors, 2000; Herkert et al., 2003), and losses up to 80–90% is typical of many neotropical migrants occupying fragmented, urban, or agricultural landscapes…”
• Conservation of Grassland Birds in North America: Understanding Ecological Processes in Different Regions: "Report of the AOU Committee on Conservation" (2007, background): “…subsequent reductions in patch size, in terms of both reduced abundance (Herkert 1994b, Helzer and Jelinski 1999, Winter and Faaborg 1999, Horn et al. 2002) and reduced nesting success (Johnson and Temple 1990, Winter and Faaborg 1999, Herkert et al. 2003) within small patches of grassland habitat.”
• A multi-scaled analysis of avian response to habitat amount and fragmentation in the Canadian dry mixed-grass prairie (2006, background): “In contrast, other studies in grasslands (Greenwood et al. 1995; Herkert et al. 2003 ) and agro-ecosystems (Bergin et al. 2000) have found higher nest success in landscapes with greater proportions of grassland or in larger patches, although this varies by species.”