Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship
Started in 1989, MAPS (Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivor-ship) is a program that provides demographic information to explain population trends.
Science Friday: Boreal Toad Project Summary
Summary of Boreal Toad Project for Jesperson Award 2018 Emerging infectious diseases pose a significant threat to global biodiversity. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (commonly known as the amphibian chytrid fungus), an emerging fungal pathogen primarily affecting amphibians, is of particular concern because it has caused severe population declines and several extinctions in amphibian populations worldwide. Our current …
Science Friday: Breeding Bird Surveys
By: Reg Rothwell Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) are the source of some of the most important, comprehensive, long-term data on avian populations in North America. Initiated in 1966, there are more than 4500 established routes in the US and Canada. Approximately 70% of these routes are routinely run each year. In Wyoming there are 80 …