Integrating telemetry data into spatial capture–recapture modifies inferences on multi‐scale resource selection

Abstract (from ESA): Estimating population size and resource selection functions (RSFs) are common approaches in applied ecology for addressing wildlife conservation and management objectives. Traditionally such approaches have been undertaken separately with different sources of data. Spatial capture–recapture (SCR) provides a hierarchical framework for jointly estimating density and multi‐scale resource selection, and data integration techniques provide opportunities for improving inferences from SCR models. Despite the added benefits, there have been few applications of SCR‐RSF integration, potentially due to complexities of specifying and fitting such models. Here, we extend a previous integrated SCR‐RSF model...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Mammals, Northeast CASC, All tags... Other Wildlife, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags

Massachusetts Wildlife Monitoring Project (2022 - 2024)

This volume's release consists of 143321 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, Massachusetts Wildlife Monitoring Project. The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release. The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture. The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files. A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes each CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields in other CSV files. Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated"...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aix sponsa, Alces americanus americanus, Bonasa umbellus, Buteo jamaicensis, Buteo platypterus, All tags... Camera Trap, Canachites canadensis, Canis latrans, Cathartes aura, Catharus guttatus, Conservation, Cyanocitta cristata, Didelphis virginiana, Dryocopus pileatus, Dumetella carolinensis, Ecology, Erethizon dorsatus, Felis catus, Forest, Lepus americanus, Leuconotopicus villosus, Lynx rufus, Management, Massachusetts, Meleagris gallopavo, Mephitis mephitis, Mustela erminea, Mustela frenata, Odocoileus virginianus, Pekania pennanti, Poecile atricapillus, Procyon lotor, Sciurus carolinensis, Strix varia, Sylvilagus floridanus, Tamias striatus, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Turdus migratorius, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Ursus americanus, Vulpes vulpes, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, ecosystem monitoring, environment, field inventory and monitoring, time series datasets, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags

Boom and bust: the effects of masting on seed predator range dynamics and trophic cascades

Aim Spatiotemporal variation in resource availability is a strong driver of animal distributions. In the northern hardwood and boreal forests of the northeastern United States, tree mast events provide resource pulses that drive the population dynamics of small mammals, including the American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus), a primary songbird nest predator. This study sought to determine whether mast availability ameliorates their abiotic limits, enabling red squirrel elevational distributions to temporarily expand and negatively impact high-elevation songbirds. Location Northeastern United States. Methods We used two independent datasets to evaluate our hypotheses. First, we fit a dynamic occupancy model...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation

USDA White Mountain National Forest Volume 1 (2014 - 2024)

This volume's release consists of 325099 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, USDA White Mountain National Forest. The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release. The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture. The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files. A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes each CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields in other CSV files. Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated"...

Categories: Data; Tags: Alces americanus americanus, Bonasa umbellus, Camera Trap, Canis latrans, Canis lupus, All tags... Castor canadensis, Cathartes aura, Colaptes auratus, Conservation, Corvus brachyrhynchos, Cyanocitta cristata, Dryocopus pileatus, Ecology, Erethizon dorsatus, Forest, Lepus americanus, Lynx canadensis, Lynx rufus, Maine, Management, Martes americana, Meleagris gallopavo, Mephitis mephitis, Mustela frenata, Mustela vison, New Hampshire, Odocoileus virginianus, Ondatra zibethicus, Pekania pennanti, Poecile atricapillus, Procyon lotor, Sciurus carolinensis, Sylvilagus floridanus, Tamias striatus, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, Turdus migratorius, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Ursus americanus, Vulpes vulpes, White Mountain National Forest, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, ecosystem monitoring, environment, field inventory and monitoring, time series datasets, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags

Winter tick counts and covariates in Massachusetts and New Hampshire from fall 2022

The dataset accompanies manuscript: "Monitoring off-host winter tick abundance on traditional moose hunting lands" . It is a single table that includes counts of winter tick (Dermacentor albipictus) obtained by a modified flagging technique developed by the Penobscot Nation. The table includes both detection and site covariates used for the data analyses presented in the paper. Data were collected by the University of Massachusetts student Juliana Berube at 20 sites in west and central Massachusetts, USA (WCM), and 11 sites in the White Mountain National Forest and Umbegog National Wildlife Refuge in New Hampshire, USA (WMU). Data were collected from 6 September 2022 – 4 December 2022.

Categories: Data; Tags: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Biology, Wildlife Disease, All tags... biota, field sampling, Fewer tags

USDA Green Mountain National Forest Volume 1 (2016 - 2022)

This volume's release consists of 84049 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, USDA Green Mountain National Forest. The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release. The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture. The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files. A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes each CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields in other CSV files. Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated"...

Categories: Data; Tags: American Marten, American Robin, Barred Owl, Beaver, Black Bear, All tags... Black-capped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Bobcat, Broad-winged Hawk, Camera Trap, Conservation, Cottontail Rabbit, Coyote, Dark-eyed Junco, Ecology, Fisher, Forest, Gray Fox, Gray Squirrel, Green Mountain National Forest, Green Mountains, Management, Mink, Moose, Pileated Woodpecker, Porcupine, Raccoon, Red Fox, Red Squirrel, Ruffed Grouse, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Snowshoe Hare, State of Vermont, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkey, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, ecosystem monitoring, environment, field inventory and monitoring, time series datasets, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags

Interactive Range‐Limit Theory (iRLT): An Extension for Predicting Range Shifts

Abstract (from British Ecological Society): A central theme of range‐limit theory (RLT) posits that abiotic factors form high‐latitude/altitude limits, whereas biotic interactions create lower limits. This hypothesis, often credited to Charles Darwin, is a pattern widely assumed to occur in nature. However, abiotic factors can impose constraints on both limits and there is scant evidence to support the latter prediction. Deviations from these predictions may arise from correlations between abiotic factors and biotic interactions, as a lack of data to evaluate the hypothesis, or be an artifact of scale. Combining two tenets of ecology—niche theory and predator–prey theory—provides an opportunity to understand how...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Mammals, Northeast CASC, Rivers, Streams and Lakes, Water, Coasts and Ice, Wetlands, All tags... Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags

Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department Volume 1 (2014 - 2022)

This volume's release consists of 41933 media files captured by autonomous wildlife monitoring devices under the project, Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. The attached files listed below include several CSV files that provide information about the data release. The file, "media.csv" provides the metadata about the media, such as filename and date/time of capture. The actual media files are housed within folders under the volume's "child items" as compressed files. A critical CSV file is "dictionary.csv", which describes each CSV file, including field names, data types, descriptions, and the relationship of each field to fields in other CSV files. Some of the media files may have been "tagged" or "annotated"...

Categories: Data; Tags: American Marten, American Robin, Barred Owl, Beaver, Black Bear, All tags... Black-capped Chickadee, Blue Jay, Bobcat, Broad-winged Hawk, Camera Trap, Conservation, Cottontail Rabbit, Coyote, Dark-eyed Junco, Ecology, Fisher, Forest, Gray Fox, Gray Squirrel, Green Mountain National Forest, Green Mountains, Management, Mink, Moose, Pileated Woodpecker, Porcupine, Raccoon, Red Fox, Red Squirrel, Ruffed Grouse, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Snowshoe Hare, State of Vermont, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), White-tailed Deer, Wild Turkey, Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, animal tracking, biota, ecosystem monitoring, environment, field inventory and monitoring, time series datasets, vertebrates, wildlife, wildlife biology, Fewer tags

Interactive Range‐Limit Theory (iRLT): An Extension for Predicting Range Shifts

Abstract (from British Ecological Society): A central theme of range‐limit theory (RLT) posits that abiotic factors form high‐latitude/altitude limits, whereas biotic interactions create lower limits. This hypothesis, often credited to Charles Darwin, is a pattern widely assumed to occur in nature. However, abiotic factors can impose constraints on both limits and there is scant evidence to support the latter prediction. Deviations from these predictions may arise from correlations between abiotic factors and biotic interactions, as a lack of data to evaluate the hypothesis, or be an artifact of scale. Combining two tenets of ecology—niche theory and predator–prey theory—provides an opportunity to understand how...

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Mammals, Northeast CASC, All tags... Other Wildlife, Wildlife and Plants, Fewer tags

Efficacy of Remote Telemetry Data Loggers for Landscape-Scale Monitoring: A Case Study of American Martens

Remote telemetry data loggers are commonly used for monitoring wildlife species. Although remote telemetry data loggers provide reliable microhabitat use data, few studies have used them to evaluate landscape-scale, temporal, and spatial habitat use. We installed 3 data loggers along a mountain ridgeline that was being developed for a commercial wind farm in northern New Hampshire, USA, to monitor use of a high-elevation forest by American martens (Martes americana). We tested 1) the efficacy of data loggers to record presence–absence and index space use in a 6.75-km2 area, validating marten locations using radiotelemetry and camera traps; and 2) whether there were diel and seasonal biases of data logger detections....

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Birds, Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, Extreme Weather, Forestry, Mammals, All tags... Northeast CASC, Other Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife and Plants, remote monitoring, Fewer tags