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Nocturnal visual encounter survey data conducted by 29 searchers over 17 transects obtained during a Brown Treesnake rapid response deployment to island of Saipan in 2016. Surveys took place in the vicinity of the Saipan airport and Dandan village (ca. 15.127°N, 145.735°E) from 06 January to 13 March 2016, 6–7 nights/week but with a break in surveying from 26 January through 21 February. During Brown Treesnake searches over 386.8 kilometers, we collected data on selected vertebrate taxa (lizards and small mammals, both potential snake prey) recorded from survey transects with similar vegetation structure (secondary forest dominated by the introduced leguminous tree Leucaena leucocephala; emergent trees were partially...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Emerald Tree Skink,
Green Anole,
Saipan,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota
The dataset contains 6 columns of data collected during line transect surveys (Line) that evaluated bait cartridge efficacy for Brown Treesnake control on Guam. Two-person teams recorded all bait cartridges observed while walking the center line of transects in the Habitat Management Unit (HMU). Perpendicular distance (DIST (m)) to cartridges from center line was measured to the nearest 0.005 meters.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Brown Treesnake,
Control tool,
Distance Sampling,
Guam,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Entire photo-documented sequence from 01 June 2021–09 September 2021, including novel interactions between intraguild predators in southern Florida – the native bobcat (Lynx rufus) and the invasive Burmese python (Python bivittatus). A bobcat depredated an unguarded Burmese python nest and subsequently the python exhibited nest defense behavior following the return of both animals to the nest. First, a bobcat discovers an unguarded nest then proceeds to depredate, cache, and uncover the eggs over several days. The bobcat returns to find the female python back on the nest and later proceeds to swipe at the snake. After biologists attempted to the nest but leave the camera, the bobcat returns to scavenge discarded,...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Big Cypress National Preserve,
Burmese python,
Everglades,
Everglades National Park,
Greater Everglades Ecosystem,
We evaluated three walking paces to estimate (1) how snake detection rate per unit distance changes with increasing pace, and (2) how total number of snakes found by the end of a night of surveying varies with pace when the amount of surveying time per night is held constant. For a “fast” pace we searched the 220 meter-long transect in 10 minutes, corresponding to a walking pace of 1.32 km/h, whereas for a “medium” pace we searched 17.5 minutes, corresponding to a pace of approximately 0.75 km/h. The “slow” pace was the 30 minutes (0.44 km/h) the standard previously adopted for work on Guam. Perch height and sizes of detected snakes were recorded for the three paces.
Data were collected in association with locations of standard brown treesnake traps on Guam at location prior to suppression or control efforts and after control had occurred. In all cases study sites were closed or semi-closed populations of brown treesnakes. Habitat data focused on type and structure of the habitat within 10-m of the trap.
Exogenous and endogenous factors influence invasive reptile movement at multiple scales, 2018 - 2019
These data reflect movement values for brown treesnakes from Guam that were translocated (moved by humans) to new locations or were resident (left in place) on Guam. The data are related to the specimen's treatment group, individual values, locations and other details affiliated with radio telemetry based acquisition and positional changes by the individual snakes across tracking events. The data were collected to help inform early detection and rapid response efforts for brown treesnakes in the Mariana Islands.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Ecology,
Guam,
Mariana Islands,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wildlife Biology,
The data set consists of 3 spreadsheets: counts, efforts, and location that detail the 10-year removal effort of invasive Veiled Chameleons (Chamaeleo calyptratus) on the island of Maui. Recorded are the number of lizards removed from each site, the level of search effort at each site, and the centroid location of each sampled site.
Categories: Data;
Types: Citation;
Tags: Hawaii,
Maui,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
herpetology,
The data set consists of 2 spreadsheets from Airsoft Electric Gun (AEG) trials on brown treesnakes. AEG snake wound data contains AEG results from guns equipped with 0.39 gram ammunition (plastic pellets ) that were fired at dead and live snakes from distances of 4, 8, and 12 m to measure tissue-penetration depth, and noted if (a) the pellet was lodged inside the peritoneal cavity, (b) the pellet had completely passed through and left the body, (c) the pellet appeared to have damaged the vertebral column, (d) ribs were broken, and (e) any internal organs appeared to be damaged. AEG live snake ballistic data contains information on limited AEG trials with live snakes shot at distances of 4, 8, and 12 m and their...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Guam,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
invasive species,
pest control
The dataset consists of two spreadsheets that contain brown treesnake data (location, perch taxa, perch height, time of detection, whether visible or not, and size of snake) collected during both visual surveys and radio telemetry within a 55-ha enclosure on Guam.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Guam,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
radiotelemetry,
visual encounter surveys
We deployed 30 trap stations consisting of three combinations: isolated bird-lure traps, isolated mouse-lure traps, or paired stations to evaluate snake capture as a function of lure. At the paired stations, we included two traps: one bird-lure trap and one mouse-lure trap. All stations were at least 60 meters (m) apart and each of the station treatments was replicated 10 times. Traps at paired stations ranged from 1.7 to 6.7 m apart (mean 3.22 ± 0.46) depending on availability of vegetation from which to suspend traps. Both mouse-lure traps and bird-lure traps were adapted from standard modified commercial minnow traps composed of 6 millimeter (mm) galvanized steel mesh. The traps were operational for 67 trap nights...
Thermal data collected from iButton temperature loggers implanted into research animals (Argentine giant tegus) and in their surrounding environment. Tegus undergo winter dormancy (hibernation) to cope with colder temperatures, and we studied the thermal habits of wild tegus within their invaded range in southern Florida, USA. We used radiotelemetry and trail cameras to verify dates of above-ground behaviors (active, basking, non-hibernating) and used temperature dataloggers to monitor surface (2 sun-exposed [Te] and 1 shaded [Ts]), 3 ambient (Ta), 19 subsurface ground (Th), and 22 internal body (Tb) temperatures of a population of free-ranging tegus over several seasons (46 weeks from 2015-2016). We recorded tegu...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Ecology,
Environmental Health,
Everglades,
Southern Florida,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
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...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Andersen Air Force Base,
Guam,
Habitat Management Unit,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
Wildlife Biology,
Visual survey data for brown treesnakes from caves with and without swiftlets. Each record (line) represents the snake sightings that occurred during a block of time, typically 1 hour at one site by searcher(s) during one search (i.e. one date). Snakes removed from caves and adjacent areas during visual surveys were then necropsied. Each record (line) represents necropsy results for a given individual.
Categories: Data;
Tags: Aerodramus bartschi,
Boiga irregularis,
Guam,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
biota,
The dataset contains 16 columns of data collected on invasive Brown Treesnakes (Boiga irregularis) at a study site known as the Habitat Management Unit (HMU) in northern Guam. Snakes were fitted with radio-transmitters and teams of 2-4 biologist listened for signals from transmitters every seven days to determine if snakes were alive or dead. Survival data was then modeled in Program MARK to assess the effect of aerially applied toxic baits on snake mortality, including the effect of snake size covariates. In addition, this dataset contains snake capture information from reference sites on Guam that was used to demonstrate that our sample was representative of the size distribution in limestone forest habitat on...
Categories: Data;
Tags: Boiga irregularis,
Brown Treesnakes,
Guam,
Known Fate Model,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC),
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