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Brown treesnake movement following snake suppression in the Habitat Management Unit on Northern Guam from 2015

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2010-10-04
End Date
2015-08-06

Citation

Nafus, M.G., Boback, S.M., Klug, P.E., Yackel Adams, A.A., and Reed, R.N., 2022, Brown treesnake movement following snake suppression in the Habitat Management Unit on Northern Guam from 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95QJ2PE.

Summary

Animals move to locate important resources such as food, water, and mates. Therefore, movement patterns can reflect temporal and spatial availability of resources as well as when, where, and how individuals access such resources. To test these relationships for a predatory reptile, we quantified the effects of prey abundance on the spatial ecology of invasive brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis). After toxicant-mediated suppression of a brown treesnake population on Guam, we simultaneously used visual encounter surveys to estimate rodent abundance and radiotelemetry to document movement behavior of surviving snakes located in the Habitat Management Unit (HMU) in Northern Guam, Andersen Air Force Base. The impact of prey availability [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Melia G Nafus
Originator :
Melia G Nafus, Scott M Boback, Page E Klug, Amy A Yackel Adams, Robert N Reed
Metadata Contact :
FORT Metadata Specialist, Fort Collins Science Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Fort Collins Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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HMU LOWDENS Prey Rich_Movement Metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		27.05 KB application/fgdc+xml
Bulge.csv 1.44 KB text/csv
Necropsy.csv 1.06 KB text/csv
VisualSurvey.csv 73.65 KB text/csv

Purpose

The data were collected to assess brown treesnake movement in a landscape following snake suppression and in particular with association to a potential prey increase as a result.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P95QJ2PE

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