Translocating individuals of Eleutherodactylus frogs to alternative, suitable habitat is an adaptation strategy designed to minimize the impact of projected warming and drying in Puerto Rico. The action increases species persistence by increasing spatial redundancy, but it could also be used to supplement extant populations. We released 34 Eleutherodactylus coqui to determine initial, post-release survival under two treatments – non-translocated (N = 14), and translocated (N=20) to a different location 0.8 km away, but sharing similar habitat and environmental conditions. We defined “initial” as the first 17 days post-release, a period where we hypothesized that translocated individuals would have lower survival...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Adaptation Strategy,
Climate Change,
Coqui,
Eleutherodactylus,
Managed Translocations, All tags...
Puerto Rico,
Puerto Rico,
Survival,
Telemetry,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
West-central Puerto Rico,
Wildlife Biology,
biota, Fewer tags
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