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The Great Lakes Binational Marsh Monitoring Program: The Role of Volunteer Participants

Learn about the importance of habitat assessments in wetland management and conservation through the Great Lakes Binational Marsh Monitoring Program. This program provides training materials, data forms, and annual cover letters to volunteers. Discover the habitat associations of marsh birds and determine optimal habitat components for different species. Use the provided resources to monitor marshbird and amphibian indices and trends.

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The Great Lakes Binational Marsh Monitoring Program: The Role of Volunteer Participants

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  1. The Great Lakes Binational Marsh Monitoring Program: The Role of Volunteer Participants Steve Timmermans Joel Ingram

  2. MMP Partnerships

  3. Standard Training Kit • Protocol booklet • Training tape • birds: songs, calls • amphibians: calls, calling index • Broadcast tape • Data forms (field and summary) • Annual cover letter

  4. Habitat – Why? • Species habitat associations • Critical for effective wetland management and conservation • Habitat assessments • major habitat types • floating plants • dominant emergent taxa • permanency, size

  5. MMP Routes 1995 - 2005

  6. Monitor Marshbird and Amphibian Annual Indices and Trends

  7. Marshbird Habitat Associations • Compare habitat use by different species • Identify specific habitat associations • Determine species-specific optimums for various marsh habitat components • Model to guide wetland management prescriptions for marsh bird species

  8. Marshbird Habitat Associations Woody Vegetation Wet Meadow

  9. Figure 4. Example of a coastal wetland shapefile (Big Island Marsh) overlaid with Ontario landcover data. Outline of 500 m, 1 km and 20 km buffers (black consecutive circles around wetland), and watershed boundary are shown.

  10. Suitable Marsh Bird Metrics • High water IBIs significantly correlated with disturbance (p < 0.0001) • Low water IBI not significantly correlated with disturbance (p = 0.20), therefore no further analysis completed. © Ron Ridout

  11. Wetland Scores – Marsh Birds High Water Levels Power analysis: minimum detectible difference between IBI means = 18.5 © Steve Timmermans

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