Selected publications, reports, and software
from the MAPS Program

A full categorized list of IBP Publications may be downloaded as an Adobe PDF or Microsoft Word Document

• DeSante, D. F., J. F. Saracco, P. Pyle, D. R. Kaschube, M. K. Chambers. 2008. Integrating the MAPS Program into Coordinated Bird Monitoring in the Northeast (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5). Contribution No. 335 of The Institute for Bird Populations.PDF (1699KB)
• DeSante, D. F., K. M. Burton, P. Velez, D. Froehlich, and D. R. Kaschube. 2008. MAPS Manual: 2008 Protocol. Contribution No. 127 of The Institute for Bird Populations.PDF (866KB)
• Siegel, R. B., P. Pyle, D. R. Kaschube, and D. F. DeSante. 2007. The 2006 Annual Report of the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program in Yosemite National Park. Contribution No. 299 of The Institute for Bird Populations.PDF (1.2MB)
• Siegel, R. B. and D. R. Kaschube. Landbird Monitoring Results from the Monitoring Avian Producitivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program in the Sierra Nevada. Contribution No. 300 of The Institute for Bird Populations. PDF (1287KB)
• Pyle, P., D. R. Kaschube, R. B. Siegel, and D. F. DeSante. 2006. The 2005 Annual Report of the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program in Yosemite National Park. Contribution No. 280 of The Institute for Bird Populations.PDF (1.8MB)
• MAPSPROG Version 4.0 (latest version) HTML
• Nott, M. P., D. F. DeSante, P. Pyle, and N. Michel. 2005. Managing Landbird Populations in Forests of the Pacific Northwest Region. Publication No. 254 of The Institute for Bird Populations. Executive Summary (412KB)
• Nott, M. P. and N. Michel. 2005. Management strategies for reversing declines in landbirds of conservation concern on military installations: Predictive modelling of landbird populations on military installations. The Institute for Bird Populations, Pt. Reyes Station, CA. A report to the Legacy Resources Management Office, Washington. D.C.. PDF (641KB)
• MAPS Chat (Spring 2004) PDF (107 KB)
• DeSante, D. F., J. F. Saracco, D. R. O’Grady, K. M. Burton, and B. L. Walker. 2004. Some methodological considerations of the Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship Program. In: Using Mist Nets to Monitor Bird Populations (C. J. Ralph and E. H. Dunn, Editors). Studies in Avian Biology 29:28-45.
• Nott, M. P., D. F. DeSante, and N. Michel. 2003. Management Strategies for Reversing Declines in Landbirds of Conservation Concern on Military Installations: A Landscape-scale Analysis of MAPS data. A report to the Legacy Resources Management Office, Washington. D.C. Executive Summary, PDF (332KB)
• MAPS Chat (Spring 2002) PDF (1.6MB)
• Nott, M.P., DeSante, D.F., Siegel, R.B., and P. Pyle. 2002. Influences of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation and the North Atlantic Oscillation on avian productivity in forests of the Pacific Northwest of North America. Global Ecology and Biogeography 11:333-342. PDF (411KB) Read more about this study of climate and birds
• Nott M.P., and D.F. DeSante. 2002. Demographic monitoring and the identification of transients in mark-recapture models. In: Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy (Scott, J. M., P. J. Heglund, M. Morrison, M. Raphael, J. Haufler, B. Wall, Editors). Island Press. Covello, CA.
• Nott, M.P. 2002. Weather and landscape effects on landbird survival and reproductive success in Texas. (Tech. report to the Texas Army National Guard Command: Adjutant General's Department and U.S. Department of Defense Legacy Resources Management Program, Contribution No. 163 of The Institute for Bird Populations.) PDF (10MB)
• Nott, M.P. and D.F.DeSante. 2002. A proposed methodology for adjusting productivity indices given missing effort in constant-effort mist-netting data. (Tech. report to the U.S. Department of Defense Legacy Resources Management Program, Contribution No.163 of The Institute for Bird Populations.) PDF (20KB)
• DeSante, D.F. and M.P. Nott. 2001. An overview of the North American Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) program. In the 2001 EURING Newsletter (Volume 3) edited by Fernando Spina, Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvetica "Alessandro Ghigi". PDF (72KB)
• DeSante, D.F., M.P. Nott, and D.R. O'Grady. 2001. Identifying the Proximate Demographic Cause(s) of Population Change by Modeling Spatial Variation in Productivity, Survivorship, and Population Trends. ARDEA 89:185-208. PDF (1.3MB)
• Nott, M.P. 2000. Identifying Management Actions on DoD Installations to Reverse Declines in Neotropical Birds. (Tech. report to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Contribution No. 133 of The Institute for Bird Populations, 21 p) This report documents the results of a landscape analysis of National Landcover Data surrounding MAPS stations located on Big Oaks NWR (formerly Jefferson Proving Ground). Importantly, this study quantifies forest patch size threshold values of maximum reproductive success for four forest-interior landbird species. PDF (200KB)
• DeSante, D. F. 1999. Patterns of productivity and survivorship from the MAPS program. In: Bonney, Rick, David N. Pashley, Robert J. Cooper, and Larry Niles, eds. Strategies for Bird Conservation: The Partners in Flight Planning Process. Cornell Lab of Ornithology.HTML
• Rosenberg, D. K., D. F. DeSante, and J. E. Hines. 1999. Monitoring survival rates of landbirds at varying spatial scales: an application of the MAPS program. In: Bonney, Rick, David N. Pashley, Robert J. Cooper, and Larry Niles, eds. Strategies for Bird Conservation: The Partners in Flight Planning Process. Cornell Lab of Ornithology.HTML
• DeSante, D. F., K. M. Burton, J. F. Saracco, and B. L. Walker. 1995. Productivity indices and survival-rate estimates from MAPS, a continent-wide programme of constant-effort mist-netting in North America. Journal of Applied Statistics 22:935-947.

 

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