Date of Award
Summer 8-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
Geography
Department
Geography
Major Professor
Peter H. Yaukey
Second Advisor
James D. Lowry
Third Advisor
Jerome J. Howard
Abstract
Metropolitan New Orleans Neighborhoods were surveyed in order to determine how bird populations responded to distance from the batture, percent canopy cover, stem counts, and understory vegetation. Surveys were conducted in the spring and summer of 2010. It was found that batture birds, urban birds, and pooled birds all had greater species richness and abundance in the spring in areas with more canopy cover, higher stem counts, more understory vegetation, and distances closer to the batture. In the summer, batture birds had greater richness and abundance in areas with more canopy cover, higher stem counts, and more understory cover. This group of birds also had greater richness nearer the batture in the summer, but there were no significant abundance tests. Urban birds showed no preferences for any of the vegetative variables, but showed some tendency to have greater richness further away from the batture. Pooled birds did not significantly respond to any of the variables during the summer. Fifteen individual species of birds were also analyzed to see how they responded to the same variables.
Recommended Citation
Guymon, Ruth A., "Birds in Residential Metropolitan New Orleans Neighborhoods and Their Relationships to the Batture and Yard Vegetation" (2012). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1537.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1537
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