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Vulnerability of endemic insular mole skinks to sea‐level rise

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 6, Issue 9, September 2024.
Three subspecies of mole skink (Plestiodon egregius egregius, P. e. insularis, and the Egmont Key Mole Skink known from a single occurrence) occur on a small number of islands off the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA. We used the most recent sea level rise projections and the latest storm surge simulation data to predict impacts to habitat for insular mole ...
Erin L. Koen, William J. Barichivich, Susan C. Walls   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Invasive wild pig (Sus scrofa) diets on barrier islands in the southeastern United States

Pest Management Science, Volume 80, Issue 8, Page 3901-3911, August 2024.
Wild pigs on southeastern USA barrier islands exhibited a seasonal dietary shift to extensive foraging on beaches for crabs and other coastal invertebrates spring–summer during sea turtle nesting season. Abstract BACKGROUND Biological invasions are a leading cause of reductions in global biodiversity.
Vienna R Canright, Antoinette J Piaggio, James C Beasley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long-distance dispersal in a recovering endangered shorebird population facilitates recolonization of historical nesting sites following decades of extirpation

Journal of Field Ornithology, 2022
After extirpation from most of the Great Lakes by the 1980s, the Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus circumcinctus) did not nest again outside Michigan until 1998. The number of Plovers breeding in the region has gradually increased, with nesting locations
Andrew David. Brown, Francesca Cuthbert, Alice Van Zoeren, Stephanie Schubel, Erica Nol   +4 more
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The Ecology and Sociology of the Mission-Aransas Estuary : An Estuarine and Watershed Profile [PDF]

, 2012
watershed profileThe Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) is one of 28 national estuarine reserves created to promote the responsible use and management of the nation's estuaries through a program combining scientific research ...
Evans, Anne, Madden, Kiersten, Palmer, Sally   +2 more
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Natural disturbance allows multiple anuran taxa to persist in a dynamic wetland complex

The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 88, Issue 5, July 2024.
Disturbance can have profound effects on biota. Using minnow traps, acoustic, and visual surveys, we demonstrate evidence of habitat‐partitioning between the federally endangered Fowler's toad and other frog taxa, in accordance with the natural disturbance regime, not anthropogenic disturbance, affecting the landscape.
Victoria Tawa, Douglas C. Tozer, David M. Green   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protecting wild bird nests against predators: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of non‐lethal methods

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 61, Issue 6, Page 1187-1198, June 2024.
To increase their conservation value, future non‐lethal nest protection experiments should whenever possible clearly state overall aims, take place over multiple seasons, use a comparable control and test non‐lethal protection methods independently of lethal predator control. Greater focus is required on under‐studied taxa such as cup‐nesting songbirds
Daniel Gautschi, Antica Čulina, Robert Heinsohn, Dejan Stojanovic, Ross Crates   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Survey Design for Long-Term Population Trend Detection in Piping Plovers

Land
Determining appropriate spatio-temporal scales for monitoring migratory shorebirds is challenging. Effective surveys must detect population trends without excessive or insufficient sampling, yet many programs lack formal evaluations of survey ...
Eve Bohnett, Jessica Schulz, Robert Dobbs, Thomas Hoctor, Bilal Ahmad, Wajid Rashid, J. Hardin Waddle   +6 more
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Using a Bayesian network to predict barrier island geomorphologic characteristics [PDF]

, 2015
© The Author(s), 2015. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 120 (2015): 2452–2475, doi:10.1002/2015JF003671 ...
Gutierrez, Benjamin T., Plant, Nathaniel G., Thieler, E. Robert, Turecek, Aaron M.   +3 more
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Red fox trap success is correlated with piping plover chick survival

The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 88, Issue 3, April 2024.
We used a survival model to determine if there were any relationships between predator species detection and piping plover chick survival. Although plover survival was related to red fox detection, our results suggest that long‐term recovery plans must also address habitat limitation.
Samantha G. Robinson, Kathleen M. Black, Daniel H. Catlin, Christy N. Wails, Sarah M. Karpanty, Henrietta Bellman, Katie W. Oliver, Shannon J. Ritter, James D. Fraser   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Error in Locations of Conspicuous Wildlife Using Handheld GPS Units and Location Offset Methods

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2020
Collecting spatially explicit locations of individual animals often is an important part of the study of habitat use. Obtaining accurate locations without disturbing an individual can be difficult for small species and may be limited for species of ...
Samantha G. Robinson, Chelsea E. Weithman, Henrietta A. Bellman, Stephen P. Prisley, James D. Fraser, Daniel H. Catlin, Sarah M. Karpanty   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source