Arizona Sky Island Birds

                  working together to assess wildfire and climate change effects

Principal Investigators

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Team Members

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Biological Science Technicians that collected bird and vegetation data, including:

Gabriella Furr

Daniel Gusset

W. Scott Hampton

William Jaremko-Wright

Partners

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Friends of Cave Creek Canyon

 

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Products

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Summary of Past Citizen Science Data

 

Block, W.M., J.L. Ganey, K.E. Severson, and M.L. Morrison. 1992. Use of oaks by Neotropical migratory birds in the southwest. Pp. 65-70 in:  Ffolliott, P.F., G.J. Gottfried, D.A. Bennett, C. Hernandez, Ortega-Rubio, A., and R.H. Hamre, tech. coord. Ecology and management of oak and associated woodlands: perspectives in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. USFS Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-218. Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. Fort Collins, CO.

 

Block, W.M.; and Severson, K.E.  1992. Habitat associations of birds and herpetofauna in southeastern Arizona. Chiricahua Mtns. Res. Symp. Proc. Pine Canyon United Methodist Camp, Chiricahua Mtns., AZ.  16-17 Mar., Southwestern Parks and Monuments Association. Pp. 55-57.

 

Ganey, J.L., W.M. Block, and P.F. Boucher. 1996. Effects of fire on birds in Madrean forests and woodlands. Pp. 146-154 in: P.F. Ffolliott, L.F. DeBano, M.B. Baker, G.J. Gottfried, G. Solis-Garza, C.B. Edminster, D.G. Neary, L.S. Allen, and R.H. Hamre, tech. coord. USFS Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-289.  Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. Fort Collins, CO.

 

Ganey, J.L., W.M. Block, J.S. Sanderlin, and J.M. Iniguez. Nest site habitat of painted redstarts and red-faced warblers in the Madrean Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona. In Review.

 

Iniguez, J.M., J.L. Ganey, P.J. Dougherty, J.D. Bailey. 2005. Using cluster analysis and a classification and regression tree model to identify cover types in the sky islands of southeastern Arizona. Pp.195-200 in: Gottfried, G.J.; B.S. Gebow, L.G. Eskew, and C.B. Edminster, compilers. Connecting mountain islands and desert seas: biodiversity and management of the Madrean Archipelago II. Proceedings RMRS-P-36. USFS, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Fort Collins, CO.

 

Iniguez, J.M. 2000. Cover type and structural classification in the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona. M.S. thesis. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ.

 

Sanderlin, J.S., W.M. Block, J.L. Ganey, and J.M. Iniguez. 2013. Preliminary assessment of species richness and avian community dynamics in the Madrean Sky Islands, Arizona. Merging science and management in a rapidly changing world: Biodiversity & Management of the Madrean Archipelago III. 2012 May 1-5; Tucson, AZ. Proceedings.

 

Sanderlin, J.S., W.M. Block, and, J.L. Ganey. 2014. Optimizing study design for multi-species avian monitoring programs. Journal of Applied Ecology 51: 860-870.