Native Bird HabitatCarol Gause
2022 The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat
Effects of Land Management on Breeding Success, Dispersal, and Population Genetics of a Threatened Freshwater Marsh Bird, the King Rail
Gause’s research will investigate the breeding success and population genetics of the king rail, a threatened freshwater marsh bird whose species has been declining throughout its range for over 50 years. Gause will contribute to a long-term king-rail monitoring project at Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge and will collaborate with researchers across the eastern United States to compare king-rail populations using next-generation sequencing.
The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat
To provide financial aid to study areas in the United States that provide seasonal habitat for threatened or endangered native birds and to tend useful information for land-management decisions.
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