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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"GPS collars"”.
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Monitoring for Chronic Wasting Disease in Mule Deer and White-Tailed Deer at Wind Cave National Park: Investigating an Emerging Epizootic
… and smoothing parameters on home ranges from GPS collars on home ranges for mule deer and coyotes (Canis latrans). For objective 1, we collected data between January 2003 and January 2005 on white-tailed deer in southeast and southwest Minnesota and white-tailed and mule deer in Wind Cave …
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Mule Deer Responses to a Pinyon-Juniper Removal
… mule deer in winter of 2018 and 2019, deploying GPS collars and collecting fecal samples. My resource selection function analysis revealed that mule deer exhibited increased selection for annual vegetation, perennial vegetation, and tree cover following pinyon-juniper removal. These results lend …
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Home Range and Habitat Use of Santa Rosa Island Foxes (Urocyon littoralis santarosae)
… of this study were to assess new miniaturized GPS technology and to quantify home range and habitat use of the SRI population. This is only the second use of Global Positioning System (GPS) collars on Channel Island foxes and provides essential baseline data for the recovering population. These …
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Wolf Selection of Human-Modified Linear Features and Cover Types When Hunting and Killing White-Tailed Deer Fawns
… 20-min-fix-interval Global Positioning System (GPS) collars and searched clusters of GPS-locations to identify where wolves killed fawns. I identified 217 wolf-killed fawns from 12 wolves. I then created 4 models to predict where wolves hunted and killed deer fawns, whether wolves killed fawns …
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Modeling Sex-Specific Seasonal Habitat Selection for Elk (Cervus Elaphus) in Central Washington
… and Wildlife (WDFW) in capturing and placing GPS collars on males, and used an existing GPS dataset from females to investigate the extent to which sexual segregation was occurring in the Colockum herd. During summer, males selected steep slopes on north, west and south aspects at high …
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Assessing Grevy's zebra (Equus Grevyi) and livestock interactions through satelite tracking and community involvement in Samburu country (Kenya)
… movement in Samburu (Kenya) was monitored using GPSGSM collars between 2006 and 2014. Based on data from 26 animals, areas of highest occurrence within the three community conservancies were identified. Within one area livestock was tracked using GPS collars. These data were overlaid with zebra …
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Ecology of Mountain Lions (Puma concolor) in the North Dakota Badlands: Population Dynamics and Prey Use
… From 2011‒2013, we fitted 14 mountain lions with GPS collars and ear-tagged an additional 8 to study the characteristics of this mountain lion population and the potential impacts of mountain lion predation on prey populations in the region. Annual adult home ranges averaged 231.1 km2 ± 21.8 [SE] …
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Browse Availability, Bite Size, and Effects of Stand Age on Species Composition and Browse Density for Moose in Northeastern Minnesota
… availability and use along foraging paths of GPS radio-collared moose and within randomly selected regenerating stands in northeastern Minnesota. We measured all sites using traditional methods and a method that simulates moose foraging behavior by measuring large feeding stations. We tested …
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Population Ecology of Rocky Mountain Elk in the Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming
… with expandable Very High Frequency (VHF) radiocollars during summer 2012 (n = 37) and 2013 (n = 34). Annual (12 month) survival of elk calves was 0.75 (95% CI = 0.61–0.84) while summer (20 weeks; 15 May–25 September) survival was 0.79 (95% CI = 0.68–0.88). Predation accounted for 87.5% of …
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Cattle and badger dynamics in relation to the potential transmission of Mycobacterium bovis
… using three different methods; camera traps, GPS collars deployed on badgers and cattle grazing locations recorded by farmers.<br/><br/>The results found that setts and latrines were focal points for indirect contact between badgers and cattle throughout the studies. Not only did camera traps …
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Resource selection and abundance estimation of moose: Implications for caribou recovery in a human altered landscape
… with data from global positioning system (GPS) collars deployed on 17 moose (8 in a region with high and 9 in a region with low human disturbance) at 2 spatial scales. Our results indicated that moose in our study area make forage-risk tradeoffs in a hierarchical fashion similar to caribou, …
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HUMAN PREDATION RISK AND ELK BEHAVIOR IN HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES
… of elk outfitted with global positioning system (GPS) collars in the WUI of Missoula to test the indirect effects of hunting on elk. We used data from nine GPS collared adult female elk during three hunting seasons with increasing hunting pressure (2007-2009) to test relationships between movement …
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AMUR TIGER PREDATION AND ENERGETIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: NEW INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COLLARS
… We deployed Global Positioning System (GPS) collars on Amur tigers to study annual kill rates and energetic requirements in the Russian Far East. We captured and radio-collared 5 adult tigers from 2009 – 2011 in and around the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Zapovednik (Reserve) in the Russian …
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Resource selection and abundance estimation of moose: Implications for caribou recovery in a human altered landscape
… with data from global positioning system (GPS) collars deployed on 17 moose (8 in a region with high and 9 in a region with low human disturbance) at 2 spatial scales. Our results indicated that moose in our study area make forage-risk tradeoffs in a hierarchical fashion similar to caribou, …
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HUMAN PREDATION RISK AND ELK BEHAVIOR IN HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES
… of elk outfitted with global positioning system (GPS) collars in the WUI of Missoula to test the indirect effects of hunting on elk. We used data from nine GPS collared adult female elk during three hunting seasons with increasing hunting pressure (2007-2009) to test relationships between movement …
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AMUR TIGER PREDATION AND ENERGETIC REQUIREMENTS IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST: NEW INSIGHTS FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM COLLARS
… We deployed Global Positioning System (GPS) collars on Amur tigers to study annual kill rates and energetic requirements in the Russian Far East. We captured and radio-collared 5 adult tigers from 2009 – 2011 in and around the Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Zapovednik (Reserve) in the Russian …
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Conserving Moving Species under Changing Landscapes and Climates
… the movements of 73 elephants fitted with GPS collars against 4 remotely sensed datasets spanning a strong rainfall gradient across 7 southern African countries. Movements show strong seasonal and geographic differences across the study area. Two major human interventions, artificial water …
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The foraging ecology of banded mongooses (Mungos mungo): Epidemiological and human-wildlife conflict implications
… screening data from global positioning system (GPS) collars for large measurement error and we present a detailed home range study. We also document the spatio-temporal dynamics of glucocorticoid production among several banded mongoose study troops across our study site, using a non-invasive …
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Landscape utilisation by an introduced pack of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in eastern Botswana
… from the introduced pack were fitted with GPS collars. A total of 933 GPS locations were recorded between February 2017 and October 2017. Movement data was used to analyse home range, habitat resistance and resource utilisation by this pack across a range of spatial and temporal scales. …
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Evaluation of the elephant immunocontraception program at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa
… in the park are associated with collared herds (GPS collars are used to help locate herds for darting), but herd size variation due to fission-fusion social dynamics limited the role of collars in improving efficacy. An average 14% of reproductive-age females were missed each year due to failure …
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