IMPORTANT RESULTS FROM THE MAPS PROGRAM

The Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) Program has creeated a unique database of bird banding records. Analyses of these data have revealed demographic patterns in landbirds and the identified relationships between landbird demographics, landscape pattern and change, and environmental factors different phases of the annual life cycle.

Bird Populations - IBP's peer-reviewed publication, Bird Populations, provides summaries of MAPS data and results from other monitoring programs around the world.

NBII-IBP MAPS Results Query Interface - the NBII-supported results interface provides MAPS station information and tabulates regional estimates of MAPS productivity indices and survivorship (1992-2006).

MAPS Publications - The MAPS Program has produced numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers, manuals, handbooks, non-peer-reviewed position papers, and technical (mostly annual) reports to federal and state agencies and private organizations.

MAPS Chat is a periodic newsletter highlighting results and applications of MAPS monitoring:

MAPS Chat - Spring 2009
MAPS Chat - Spring 2007
MAPS Chat - Spring 2004
      Color Images used in Spring 2004 MAPS Chat
MAPS Chat - Spring 2002

MAPS article and video - read the story of one MAPS station and see station operations in action by clicking the video icon at the end of the article.

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