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Wolf survival and cause-specific mortality from 1968-2018 in the Superior National Forest. In

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1968-05-01
End Date
2018-04-30

Citation

Barber-Meyer, S.M., Mech, L.D., Wheeldon, T.J., 2021. Wolf survival and cause-specific mortality from 1968-2018 in the Superior National Forest. In: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KVM4IH.

Summary

This dataset contains gray wolf (Canis lupus) survival and cause-specific mortality data from radiocollared wolves (n=756 collared-wolf tenures) from 1968-2018 in the USGS Wolf Project study area (2,060 km2) of the Superior National Forest, USA, an area that also includes the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Also, included are the annual resident winter wolf counts for the study area.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Shannon M Barber-meyer
Originator :
Shannon M Barber-meyer, Tyler Wheeldon, L. David Mech
Metadata Contact :
Shannon M Barber-meyer
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems
SDC Data Owner :
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

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Wolf_survival_and_cause-specific_mortality_from_1968-2018_in_the_Superior_National_Forest_Metadata.xml
“Metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		28.63 KB application/fgdc+xml
Wolf_survival and_cause-specific_mortality_IndividualWolf_Dataset.csv
“Individual wolf data” 		42.64 KB text/csv
Wolf_survival and_cause-specific_mortality_WolfCount_Dataset.csv
“Wolf count data” 		1.75 KB text/csv

Purpose

Data were collected to determine gray wolf (Canis lupus) survival rates, cause-specific mortality rates, and the influence of wilderness on these rates over 50 years (1968-2018) in the Superior National Forest, USA. The relative importance of wilderness refugia to wolf population dynamics has been examined, but our 50-year study was unique in analyzing a wolf population that 1) was long extant (i.e., not reintroduced or recolonized), 2) was not subject to harvest until recently, and 3) used both wilderness and adjacent non-wilderness areas that were relatively protected.

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