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Area of Sustainable Forest Habitat within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley Bird Conservation Region

Metadata Updated: November 20, 2025

Values for area of sustainable forest habitat for each species were obtained as the predicted occupied proportion of each 900 square meter pixel (i.e., occupancy probability x 900) within all forest patches deemed large enough to harbor a sustainable population of the species. The area required for a sustainable population of each species was derived from credible intervals associated with population trends from historical (1966-2015) BBS data (Sauer and others, 2017). For each silvicolous bird species in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley, we assumed the minimum sustainable population was the number of birds needed to ensure ≤1% probability that the population would be extirpated (i.e., drop below a quasi-extinction threshold) during a 100-year period wherein annual population change was randomly selected from the credible interval associated with each species’ population trend. We used the mean of 500 simulation replicates conducted in R (Version 3.4.4; https://www.r-project.org/) as the presumed minimum sustainable population for each species. We arbitrarily set the quasi-extinction threshold at 25 breeding pairs. Because species with credible intervals associated with their trend estimates that were inclusively positive never declined in population, by default these species had a minimum sustainable population of 25 pairs.

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Metadata Created Date September 13, 2025
Metadata Updated Date November 20, 2025

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Harvested from DOI USGS DCAT-US

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 13, 2025
Metadata Updated Date November 20, 2025
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
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Data Last Modified 2020-09-22T00:00:00Z
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