Work Plan for the Wildlife Component

Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) National Assessment

CP33 modeling

As part of implementing the upland habitat buffers CRP practice (CRP practice code CP33), state agencies are required to monitor northern bobwhite and other bird response to establishment of this upland habitat buffer practice.  Most states are using standard protocols developed to monitor northern bobwhite response to applied CP33 buffer practices (Burger et al. 2004).  The purpose of this project is to assemble and analyze state-generated monitoring data to assess the effects of this practice on bobwhites and grassland birds at state, Bird Conservation Region (BCR), and species range-wide spatial scales.  Specific objectives are to (1) provide annual statistically-valid density estimates of northern bobwhite (and other birds) on fields enrolled in the CP33 buffer practice at state, regional (BCR), and national levels; (2) provide a measure of relative effect size of the CP33 practice; and (3) evaluate through modeling approaches the effect of local landscape context on bird population response.  The project is scheduled to take place over a 3-year period. 

Literature Cited

Burger, L. W., M. R. Smith, R. Hamrick, B. Palmer, and S. Wellendorf.  2004.  CP33-Upland Habitat Buffers monitoring protocol.  Southeast Quail Study Group, Research Committee, 9/02/04 Draft. Accessed June 29, 2006.

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