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Utah State researchers complete field collection for waterbird bioenergetics study; processing and model work now underway
Summary
A Utah State team reported completion of two years of field sampling across 240 sites to estimate food‑supply and waterfowl caloric demand; about 1,140 of 1,400 samples have been processed and early biomass results identify ostracods, daphnia and copepods as key prey items.
Lauren, a PhD candidate at Utah State, told the advisory group that the waterbird bioenergetics project has finished two years of field sampling and is now moving into intensive data processing and modeling. The project sampled 240 sites across managed and unmanaged wetlands, collected submerged aquatic vegetation cores, water samples and point counts, and is assembling inputs to estimate caloric supply versus species‑specific demand.
"We are finished with our full 2 years of data…
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