Development of a Geographic Information System as an Analysis Tool for Management of Black-capped Vireo on the Kerr Wildlife Management Area, Kerr County, Texas

The Black-capped Vireo GIS Database for the Kerr Wildlife Management Area, Kerr County, Texas, was developed as an analysis tool for assisting the wildlife manager in making sound management decisions for the management of the endangered Blackcapped Vireo (Vireo atricapillus). The Black-capped Vireo GIS incorporates Blackcapped Vireo surveys, breeding bird surveys, black and white aerial photographs, digital orthophoto color infrared aerial photography, vegetation, topography, soils, incidence of parasitism, prescribed burning and wildfire, water sources, roads, and pastures on the Kerr Wildlife Management Area. The Black-capped Vireo GIS will enable analysts to answer management questions about the Black-capped Vireo and monitor change over time in population, distribution, and vegetational structure. The development of a data dictionary, metadata standards, and the relational database provides a model for the use of GIS in wildlife management and provides standardization and coding specific to the study of the Black-capped Vireo.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Biology

Grantor

Southwest Texas State University

Year dc:date.issued

1997

Author dc:creator

• Coats, Christine A.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Baccus, John T.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Macey, Susan
• Simpson, Thomas

• geographic information systems
• wildlife management
• black-capped vireo
• habitats
• ecology
• Kerr County

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10877/9600

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digital.library.txst.edu:10877/9600