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Predator Movements and Duck Nests in Relation to Habitat Features in Suisun Marsh, CA (2016-2019)

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2016-04-11
End Date
2019-08-01

Citation

Peterson, S.H., and Ackerman, J.T., 2022, Predator movements and duck nests in relation to habitat features in Suisun Marsh, CA (2016-2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W12VVX.

Summary

This dataset describes mesopredator locations (raccoons and striped skunks), dabbling duck nest locations (mallard, gadwall, and cinnamon teal), northern harrier nest locations, and random locations in relation to a set of habitat features in Suisun Marsh, California during 2016 through 2019. We designed a series of questions to link fine-scale predator movements and vulnerability of dabbling duck nests to predator encounters and egg predation. We conducted our study over a 4-year period using 41 GPS-collared raccoons and striped skunks, two of the most widespread mammalian predators of waterfowl eggs in North America, and more than 2000 monitored duck nests. Each night of movement for mesopredators contains the distance between successive [...]

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Originator :
Sarah H Peterson, Josh T Ackerman
Metadata Contact :
Sarah H Peterson
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Western Ecological Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Predator_Movements_Suisun_Marsh_CA.xml
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View 		50.9 KB application/fgdc+xml
Nest_depredation_data_for_survival_analyses.csv 527.28 KB text/csv
Mesopredators_nest_encounter_data_for_survival_analyses.csv 2.26 MB text/csv
Mesopredators_and_nests_distance_to_habitat_features_and_movements.csv 22.44 MB text/csv

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Purpose

Data were collected in order to describe raccoon and striped skunk movements in relation to ground nesting waterfowl in Suisun Marsh, California.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9W12VVX

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