Abstract Interior Least Terns (Sternula antillarum)(ILT) are colonial, fish‐eating birds that
breed within active channels of large sand bed rivers of the Great Plains and in the Lower …

Effective conservation for listed migratory species requires an understanding of how drivers
of population decline vary spatially and temporally, as well as knowledge of range-wide …

Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) are primarily monogamous birds that usually raise
only one brood per season, but rare instances of double brooding have been documented …

Sandbars are ubiquitous in sandy‐braided rivers throughout the world. In the Great Plains of
the United States, recovery and expansion of emergent sandbar habitat (ESH) has been a …

Sand and gravel mining creates novel ecosystems along the Platte, Loup, and Elkhorn rivers
in Nebraska, USA. Piping plovers and least terns are state and/or federally threatened and …

This annotated list of the birds of Nebraska grew gradually out of research associated with
my writing of the Birds of the Great Plains: Breeding Species and Their Distribution …

This document reports on our monitoring, research, management, and outreach activities
during the past 12 months (2009). We prepared it to inform our partners, cooperating …

Fluvial barforms are the fundamental building blocks of rivers, but their scales, controls,
dynamics, and habitats remain poorly understood and quantified. The scales of bars …

The world's large river systems are under increasing stress to support growing populations
and economies. Balancing inevitable fluvial alteration with protections of river ecosystems …

The Federally endangered interior least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) and threatened
piping plover (Charadrius melodus) nest on emergent sandbars in several braided rivers in …