Abstract
ABSTRACTRegional estimates of duck brood abundance could help conservation managers assess landscape productivity and thereby improve spatially explicit allocation of limited conservation funds in the Prairie Pothole Region. We assessed the utility of repeat‐visit brood counts from 2012 to 2013 surveys in the Prairie Pothole Region (ND, SD, and MT, USA) and hierarchical N‐mixture models for providing estimates of abundance at a 10.4‐km2 scale. Models provided reliable estimates of brood abundance and underscored the importance of small wetlands and landscape characteristics to some dabbling duck broods in the Prairie Pothole Region. © 2018 The Wildlife Society.
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