Letter sent to Gulf Island National Parks Advisory Committee with regard to former ERs on Brackman and Saturna Islands
Letter from The Friends of Ecological Reserves To Gulf Islands National Park Advisory Board December 5th 2012 Re: Gulf Islands Parks plan and management of former Ecological Reserves on Saturna and Brackman Islands. This letter is a request from Friends of Ecological Reserves (FER) to the advisory board to use the boundaries of former ERs
Update on Gulf Island Marine Park Ecological Reserves,
From : Todd Golumbia, Ecologist Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, March 2012 Since the Park was established, we have undertaken ecosystem mapping of the southern gulf islands including these areas. Both ERs have field plot data for the mapping but it not extracted from the larger data set. We have also done flora surveys on
Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year.
Abstract: Predator effects on prey demography have traditionally been ascribed solely to direct killing in studies of population ecology and wildlife management. Predators also affect the prey’s perception of predation risk, but this has not been thought to meaningfully affect prey demography. We isolated the effects of perceived predation risk in a free-living population of
Research on Song Sparrows. Melospiza melodia on Brackman Island
Dr. Liana Zanette, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Biology , University of Western Ontario has done research on “Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year”. Her website for Zanette Lab carries the most recent research article and has links to excellent images of Song sparrows and their predators, and
Brackman Island Photo
Thanks to Bruno Gozales for the use of his image from Brackman Island taken from Portland Island http://www.saltspringvirtualtours.com/p/photo-gallery.html Click Image for enlarged version
Indirect predator effects on clutch size and the cost of Egg production
Abstract Predator-induced changes in physiology and behaviour may negatively affect a prey’s birth rate. Evidence of such indirect predator effects on prey demography remains scarce in birds and mammals despite invertebrate and aquatic studies that suggest ignoring such effects risks profoundly underestimating the total impact of predators. We report the first experimental demonstration of indirect
Gulf Islands Marine Park Reserve Compendium of Research
The Friends of Ecological reserves maintains that the baseline work done on Ecological Reserves now ceded by the province to Parks Canada justifies them as still being recognized as special research areas and it is hoped that they will be designated as such. Research Projects on Brackman Island, former ER #121, and Saturna Island, #15
Geo BC helicopter tour of shoreline of Brackman Island
GEO BC Brackman Island aded by blueincmultimediaon Dec 22, 2009 Southern Gulf Islands DVD 14 Segment 10 Brackman Island
Brackman Island ER – Part of The Gulf Islands National Park Reserve
From: THE LOG FRIENDS OF ECOLOGICAL RESERVES NEWSLETTER AUTUMN 2008 By Marilyn Lambert Late this past spring, my husband and I visited our friend on his sailboat. He was the marine host at Princess Margaret Marine Park on the south end of Portland Island. This island is approximately 3.5 km NNW of the Swartz Bay
Brackman Island Phenology 1999
Paul Linton who was the Ecological reserve warden for Brackman Island has done a great job in producing a phenology, or time of blooming of the plants on Brackman Island. This is also an excellent species list as well. This was also done for 1995 Phenology see PDF Brackman Island Phenology_1999
Brackman Island Phenology 1995
Paul Linton has compiled the Phenology for Brackman Island in 1995 . (Also see 1999’s version.) Brackman Island Phenology_1995
Guide to Ecological Reserves in BC
This 371 page, 50 mb book may be downloaded from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/HFD/library/documents/bib32374.pdf Thanks to Jody Krakowski ER warden for Baynes Island ER #69 for showing us the location of this important document. It provides a page and a map on each of the reserves created up to 1992. Include are the Ecological Reserves now lost from
Brackman Island Warden report: Management Issues
Ecological Reserve Warden Paul Linton lists some observations on the last 35 visits to Brackman Island since becoming Ecological reserve warden in the 1980’s. His predominant concern is the spread of Scotch Broom and recommendations for control measures. Also the abuse of the reserve by the visiting public. ( Dogs running at large) See the