Adaptive Management and Assessment Team: Fostering a Better Understanding of How211 Harvest, Habitat Conditions, and Weather Affect Migratory Bird Abundance. Mid-211 Year Performance Report, Fiscal Year 1999

摘要

This report provides information regarding the activities of the U.S. Fish and211u001eWildlife Service's Adaptive Management & Assessment Team (AMAT) during the first 211u001ehalf of fiscal year 1999. The inter-office team was created to address broad-211u001escale planning, monitoring, and assessment needs for the North American Waterfowl 211u001eManagement Plan (NAWMP) and the Adaptive Harvest Management (AHM) initiative. 211u001eCurrent staffing includes one biologist and one pilot-biologist from the North 211u001eAmerican Waterfowl and Wetlands Office (NAWWO), and two assessment biologists, 211u001eone biometrician, and one pilot-biologist from the Office of Migratory Bird 211u001eManagement (MBMO). Broad-scope activities include development of a proposed 211u001eecological framework for cooperative bird conservation in the U.S., assistance 211u001ewith drafting the 1998 Update of the NAWMP, development of a proposed protocol 211u001efor funding evaluation projects under the auspices of the North American Wetlands 211u001eConservation Act, and a collaborative effort with U.S.G.S. Patuxent Wildlife 211u001eResearch Center to address theoretical and methodological issues in the adaptive 211u001emanagement of migratory birds.