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Document Outline

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY
• COVER PHOTO CREDIT
• SUMMARY OF KEY COMPONENTS FOR CONSERVATION OF LONG-BILLED CURLEW
  • Status
  • Primary Threats
  • Primary Conservation Elements, Management Implications and Considerations
• LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES
• INTRODUCTION
  • Goal
  • Scope
  • Treatment of Uncertainty
  • Publication of Assessment on the World Wide Web
  • Peer Review
• MANAGEMENT STATUS AND NATURAL HISTORY
  • Management Status
  • Existing Regulatory Mechanisms, Management Plans, and Conservation Strategies
    • Laws, regulations, and management direction
    • Enforcement of existing laws and regulations
  • Biology and Ecology
    • Systematics and species description
    • Distribution and abundance
    • Population trend
    • Activity pattern
    • Habitat
      • Habitat associations
      • Microhabitat
      • Territoriality
      • Spatial patterns, landscape mosaic, juxtaposition of habitats
      • Habitat change and causes
      • Habitat availability relative to occupied habitat
    • Food habits
    • Breeding biology
      • Phenology of courtship and breeding
      • Courtship and breeding behavior
      • Site and mate fidelity
    • Demography
      • Genetic issues
      • Recruitment, survival, immigration, age at reproduction
      • Ecological influences on survival and reproduction
      • Spacing, defense and size of area, and population regulation
      • Dispersal
      • Source/sink, demographically linked populations
      • Factors limiting population growth
      • Life cycle graph and model development
      • Sensitivity analysis
      • Elasticity analysis
      • Other demographic parameters
      • Stochastic model
      • Potential refinements of the models
    • Community ecology
      • Predators and habitat use
      • Parasites and disease
      • Competitors and habitat use
      • Envirogram of ecological relationships
• CONSERVATION
  • Threats
    • Land-use practices
    • Grazing
    • Fire and fire suppression
    • Exotic species
    • Recreation
    • Energy development
    • Application of chemicals
  • Conservation Status of Long-billed Curlews in Region 2
  • Management of Long-billed Curlews in Region 2
    • Implications and potential conservation elements
    • Fire
    • Grazing
    • Cultivation, seeding, exotics
    • Tools and practices
      • Population or habitat management approaches and their effectiveness
      • Inventory and monitoring of populations and habitat
  • Information Needs
    • Fragmentation
    • Population surveys
    • Wintering ecology
    • Fire and grazing
    • Exotics
    • Human disturbance
    • Taxonomy
    • Habitat restoration
    • Reproduction and foraging
    • Relationship with prey/food populations
    • Relationship with predators
    • Movement patterns
    • Prey response to habitat change
    • Demography
• DEFINITIONS
• REFERENCES
• Table 1. Parameter values for the component terms (Pi and mi) that make up the vital rates in the         projection matrix for long-billed curlew.
• Table 2. Stable age distribution.
• Table 3. Reproductive values.
• Table 4. Results of four different stochastic projections for long-billed curlew.
• Figure 1. Map of USDA Forest Service Region 2. 
• Figure 2. Relative breeding season distribution and abundance of long-billed curlew.
• Figure 3. Relative winter season distribution and abundance of long-billed curlew.
• Figure 4. Population trend of long-billed curlew survey wide from 1966 to 2004.
• Figure 5. Population trend of long-billed curlew for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 from 1966         to 2004.
• Figure 6. Population trend of long-billed curlew for Central Region of the Breeding Bird Survey from         1966 to 2004.
• Figure 7. Breeding Bird Survey trend map for long-billed curlew from 1966 to 2003.
• Figure 8. Life cycle graph for long-billed curlew.
• Figure 9a. Symbolic values for the projection matrix of vital rates, A (with cells aij) corresponding to the long-billed curlew life cycle graph of Figure 8.
• Figure 9b. Numeric values for the projection matrix of vital rates, A (with cells aij) corresponding to the long-billed curlew life cycle graph of Figure 8.
• Figure 10. Possible sensitivities matrix.
• Figure 11. Elasticity matrix.
• Figure 12a. Resources centrum of the long-billed curlew envirogram.
• Figure 12b. Malentities centrum of the long-billed curlew envirogram.
• Figure 12c. Predators/competitors centrum of the long-billed curlew envirogram.
• Figure 13. Map of Bird Conservation Regions of the United States.
• Figure 14. Map of Breeding Bird Survey strata.
• Figure 15. Map of Physiographic Areas as defined by Partners in Flight.