Minnesota Research Activities

Minnesota Active Projects

• Assessment of techniques for evaluating woodcock population response to best management practices applied at the demonstration area scale
• Summarizing data and developing conservation practices for eagle nesting and concentration areas in the Midwest Region
• Assessing the cumulative impacts to near-shore, in-water hab
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Minnesota Completed Projects

• Quality Assessments and Restoration Potential of Groundwater Fed Streams within the Watersheds of Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
• Scaleable indices of watershed health
• Factors affecting detection of American woodcock on singing-ground surveys
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Minnesota Peer Reviewed Publications

• Streby, H.M., J.P. Loegering, and D.E. Andersen. 2012. Spot mapping underestimates song-territory size and use of mature forest by breeding golden-winged warblers in Minnesota. Wildlife Society Bulletin 36:40-46.
• Streby, H.M., S.M. Peterson, and D.E. Andersen. 2011. Invertebrate availability and vegetation characteristics explain use of non-nesting cover types by mature-forest songbirds during the post-fledging period. Journal of Field Ornithology 82:406-414.
• Streby, H.M., S.M. Peterson, T. L. McAllister, and D.E. Andersen. 2011. Use of early successional managed northern forest by mature-forest species during the post-fledging period. Condor 113:817-824.
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Minnesota Technical Publications

• Oppelt, E., J. G. Bruggink, K. E. Doherty, D. E. Andersen, J. Meunier, and R. S. Lutz. 2010. Fall survival of American Woodcock in western Great Lakes region. Pages 107-108 in C.A. Stewart and V.R. Frawley (eds.) and D.E. Andersen, J.G. Bruggink, T.R. Cooper, D.R. Dessecker, D.G. Krementz, S.L. Mayhew, M.W. Olinde, and G.J. Roloff (assoc. eds.). Proceedings of the 10th American Woodcock Symposium, Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Lansing, Michigan, U.S.A.
• Andersen, D.E. 2010. Production of EPP Canada geese near Cape Churchill, Manitoba. Pages 63-65 In L. Chow and K. McKay, eds. Hudson Bay regional research. Aboriginal Issues Press, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
• Andersen, D.E., and J.E. Sammler. 2010. Population trends of tundra-nesting birds in Churchill, Manitoba. Pages 71-72 In L. Chow and K. McKay, eds. Hudson Bay regional research. Aboriginal Issues Press, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Minnesota Theses and Dissertations

• Blick, B. L. 2012. Knife River Stressor Identification, Kanabec County, Minnesota. M. S. Thesis, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota. 97pp.
• Bergh, S.M. 2011. Factors influencing detection of American woodcock during Singing-ground Surveys. M.S. Thesis, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. 64pp. | Download | 
• Nelson, M.E. 2010. American Woodcock Singing-ground Surveys in the western Great Lakes region: assessment of woodcock counts, forest cover types along survey routes, and landscape
  cover type composition. M.S. Thesis, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota U.S.A. 105pp. | Download | 
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