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ESTIMATING MOIST‐SOIL SEEDS AVAILABLE TO WATERFOWL WITH DOUBLE SAMPLING FOR STRATIFICATION
Author(s) -
REINECKE KENNETH J.,
HARTKE KEVIN M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
the journal of wildlife management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1937-2817
pISSN - 0022-541X
DOI - 10.2193/0022-541x(2005)069[0794:emsatw]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - waterfowl , stratification (seeds) , sampling (signal processing) , environmental science , geography , biology , ecology , agronomy , habitat , computer science , seed dormancy , germination , filter (signal processing) , dormancy , computer vision
Moist-soil managers manipulate hydrology, soils, and vegetation to provide habitat and foods for waterfowl and other wildlife in seasonally flooded herbaceous wetlands. Increasing seed availability for waterfowl is a priority, but managers also provide resources such as invertebrates, tubers, and browse (Fredrickson and Taylor 1982). An important principle in moist-soil management is maintaining a large component of early-successional plant species whose reproductive strategies include production of abundant seed (Cronk and Fennessy 2001). Low and Bellrose (1944) first referred to the annual species that colonize mudflats as moist-soil plants and documented their potential seed production. Fredrickson and Taylor (1982) developed guidelines for modern moistsoil management in the 1970s and use of moist-soil methods increased rapidly thereafter (Fredrickson 1996). In the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV), state and federal wildlife agencies now manage >8,000 ha in 300 impoundments for moist-soil habitat (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2002). Several methods have been used to quantify seed availability in moist-soil habitats. Harvesting seeds from inflorescences has been the most common