Project Summary: Patterns and Processes of Dispersal of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs in a Heavily Managed Landscape of the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative

Summary of project, results, and discussion for the study completed by Samantha M. Wisely, Jack F. Cully, and Charles Lee. Summary written by the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GP LCC).

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BTPD, BTPD, Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), Colorado, All tags... Colorado, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Kansas, Kansas, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, RODENTS, Regional & county planners, Report, SAVANNA, ScienceBase Great Plains LCC, State agencies, Texas, Texas, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Final Report: Patterns and Processes of Dispersal of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs in a Heavily Managed Landscape of the Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative

The black‐tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is considered an indicator species for the short grass prairie of North America; however, this species currently occupies an estimated 2% of its original distribution. Persistent and pervasive poisoning, and sylvatic plague have fragmented the remaining populations. It is not well understood how these population fragments are connected in a heterogeneous landscape of land use practices and land cover types, but quantifying population isolation and individual measures of dispersal across the landscape are essential to predicting both the vulnerability of extinction due to stochastic processes and the probability of disease emergence. To better understand how land...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: BTPD, BTPD, Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), Colorado, All tags... Colorado, Federal resource managers, GPLCC, GPLCC, Gene Flow, Gene Flow, Grassland Conservation, Grassland Conservation, Great Plains, Great Plains, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Kansas, Kansas, LCC Network Science Catalog, Landscape Genetics, Landscape Genetics, Nebraska, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, RODENTS, Regional & county planners, Report, SAVANNA, State agencies, Texas, Texas, biota, completed, environment, Fewer tags