Description
Once considered an abundant species in the eastern United States, local populations of red-shouldered hawks, Buteo lineatus, have declined due to habitat destruction. This destruction has created suitable habitat for red-tailed hawks, Buteo jamaicensis, and therefore increased competition between these two raptor species. Since suitable habitat is the main limiting factor for raptors, a computer model was created to simulate the effect of habitat loss in central Maryland and the impact of increased competition between the more aggressive red-tailed hawk. These simulations showed urban growth contributed to over a 30% increase in red-tailed hawk habitat as red-shouldered hawk habitat decreased 62.5-70.1% without competition and 71.8-76.3% with competition. However there was no significant difference seen between the rate of available habitat decline for current and predicted development growth.
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Title
- Modeling habitat availability of red-shouldered and red-tailed hawks in central Maryland
Contributors
- Murillo, Crystal (Author)
- Whysong, Gary (Thesis advisor)
- Alford, Eddie (Committee member)
- Miller, William (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2011
Subjects
- Biology
- Environmental sciences
- Ecology
- Applied Biological Sciences
- Maryland
- Red-shouldered hawk
- Red-tailed hawk
- Spatial Modeling
- Urban Development
- Competition (Biology)
- Red-shouldered hawk--Habitat--Maryland.
- Red-shouldered hawk
- Red-tailed hawk--Habitat--Maryland.
- Red-tailed hawk
- Habitat (Ecology)--Mathematical models.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Maryland.
- Nature
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2011
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 47-50)
- Field of study: Applied biological sciences
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by Crystal Murillo