Data to Inform an Integrated Population Model of Translocated Columbian Sharp-Tailed Grouse, Nevada 2013 - 2017

Publication Date

2021-10-25

Start Date

2013

End Date

2017

Coates, P.S., Mathews, S.R., Prochazka, B.G., Espinosa, S.P., and Delehanty, D.J., 2021, Data to inform an integrated population model of translocated Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, Nevada 2013 - 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9JEDR0G.

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For reintroduced populations without immigration, persistence can only be achieved through reproductive contributions by translocated individuals and their progeny. Thus, translocation practices that maximize the number of offspring immediately recruited into restoration sites are likely to be the most successful. Due to the disruptive nature of translocation (e.g., physiological chronic stress), progeny produced at restoration sites may outperform founder populations in terms of demographics, but this hypothesis has yet to be tested. We reintroduced Columbian sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus; CSTG) to northcentral Nevada from 2013 - 2017 and used integrated population models (IPMs) to evaluate the process of population establishment and estimate latent contributions of progeny hatched at the restoration site to population rate of change.

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