Remote sensing and landcover in ring-necked pheasant research: A review of data sources and scales

Documenting wildlife–habitat relationships at multiple scales is essential for conservation. Remote sensing datasets and their derivatives (e.g., landcover data) enable efficient multi-scale assessment of ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) habitat, albeit with trade-offs among their thematic, spatial, temporal, and/or spectral grains and extents. For example, the National Agriculture Imagery Program provides fine spatial but coarse spectral grain imagery, both important for identifying pheasant habitats. Spatial technologies and datasets relevant to pheasant research are advancing, yet the information on the data sources utilized in research to date is limited. Remote sensing and landcover datasets surveys in pheasant research could help fill information gaps in pheasant–habitat relationships. In this systematic review we filtered 1,110 peer-reviewed pheasant habitat studies to 65 from the Central U.S.A. Temporal trends were tested in the broad use of remote sensing and the sele..., Research selection and classification criteria
Two authors of this paper independently collected and filtered articles following the same protocols. The search was performed in May 2024. The result from each author was then compared to check that the process was performed correctly. The data collection methods closely align with the ones employed by Barg et al (forthcoming 2024; doi: 10.5061/dryad.j3tx95xr4). The review followed the PRISMA guidelines for ecology and evolution (O’Dea et al., 2021) utilizing all databases and collections in the Web of Science. The final search query returned papers with titles or abstracts containing keywords related to pheasants and their habitats.
The search initially returned 1100 papers, which we filtered to 174 peer-reviewed articles based in the U.S.A. or Canada. These papers were further manually filtered to exclude (1) papers that were not about the ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), (2) non-original primary peer-reviewed research article..., , # Pheasant research temporal trends analysis

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## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset includes the data and code needed to reproduce the data summary and analysis from the associated publication. The data was collected to review the ring-necked pheasant (*Phasianus colchicus)* scale research from a remote sensing perspective. The ultimate aim is to understand this declining species' habitat needs at multiple scales. The data was collected from the Web of Science using keywords relating to pheasants and habitats, and then the data was manually filtered to select relevant studies, mainly on the Great Plains. The Excel file lists the studies that were considered and selected or disregarded depending on our chosen criteria. Sixty-five studies were found researching pheasant habitat in the study area, 26 of which used remote sensing. The study methodology, remote sensing data types and pla...,