Emerging technology to measure habitat quality and behavior of grouse: examples from studies of greater sage-grouse

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Hidden Markov Models Reveal Tactical Adjustment of Temporally Clustered Courtship Displays in Response to the Behaviors of a Robotic Female

“…As Patricelli and Krakauer (2010) found with the first-generation robot, we found that males responded to our second-generation robot in a similar way as they would to a typical real female. Specifically, individual males' estimated tendencies to continue a display bout (i.e., their display effort) with the robot and with real females are strongly related (R 2 p 0:72; N p 96 males; Forbey et al 2017).…”

“…These observations overlapped temporally with our experiments (10 nonconsecutive days between April 5 and May 3, between 0539 and 0718 hours). We used these data to compare males' display effort during interactions with robotic versus real females (Forbey et al 2017) and to characterize how males' display effort changed as the breeding season progressed.…”

“…We also find that males' within-bout intervals lengthened slightly over the course of a day, which is also consistent with fatigue. Ongoing efforts to tie male condition and off-lek foraging behaviors to on-lek courtship effort will address this possibility directly (Forbey et al 2017).…”

Use of small unmanned aerial systems for sharp-tailed grouse lek surveys

“…However, for sUAS to be effective, they need to collect accurate counts of individual grouse through imagery. Research using sUAS on greater sage-grouse Centrocercus urophasianus suggests still imagery are of sufficiently high resolution to detect individual males on leks (Hanson et al 2014, Forbey et al 2017. Prairie grouse Tympanuchus spp.…”

Plant-pollinator networks in fragmented calcareous grasslands

“…( Mulero-Pázmány et al, 2014;Chrétien et al, 2016;Hodgson et al, 2016;Weissensteiner et al, 2015;Goebel et al, 2015Habel et al, 2016Forbey et al, 2017)…”