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Aikens EO, Speiser J, Choki K, Lovara M, Weesies A, Tillery J, Ryder S, Lafferty E, Cheeseman AE, Severud WJ, Sawyer H. Challenging conventional views on the elevational limits of pronghorn habitat. Ecology 2024:e4422. [PMID: 39343949 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2024] [Revised: 06/10/2024] [Accepted: 07/11/2024] [Indexed: 10/01/2024]
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- Ellen O Aikens
- School of Computing, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Natural Resource Management, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA
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- Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc., Laramie, Wyoming, USA
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Denryter K, Stephenson TR, Monteith KL. Migratory behaviours are risk-sensitive to physiological state in an elevational migrant. CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY 2024; 12:coae029. [PMID: 38779433 PMCID: PMC11109817 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coae029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2024] [Revised: 04/17/2024] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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Accretion of body fat by animals is an important physiological adaptation that may underpin seasonal behaviours, especially where it modulates risk associated with a particular behaviour. Using movement data from male Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis sierrae), we tested the hypothesis that migratory behaviours were risk-sensitive to physiological state (indexed by body fat). Sierra bighorn face severe winter conditions at high elevations and higher predation risk at lower elevations. Given that large body fat stores ameliorate starvation risk, we predicted that having small body fat stores would force animals to migrate to lower elevations with more abundant food supplies. We also predicted that body fat stores would influence how far animals migrate, with the skinniest animals migrating the furthest down in elevation (to access the most abundant food supplies at that time of year). Lastly, we predicted that population-level rates of switching between migratory tactics would be inversely related to body fat levels because as body fat levels decrease, animals exhibiting migratory plasticity should modulate their risk of starvation by switching migratory tactics. Consistent with our predictions, probability of migration and elevational distance migrated increased with decreasing body fat, but effects differed amongst metapopulations. Population-level switching rates also were inversely related to population-level measures of body fat prior to migration. Collectively, our findings suggest migration was risk-sensitive to physiological state, and failure to accrete adequate fat may force animals to make trade-offs between starvation and predation risk. In complex seasonal environments, risk-sensitive migration yields a layer of flexibility that should aid long-term persistence of animals that can best modulate their risk by attuning behaviour to physiological state.
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- Kristin Denryter
- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, Bim Kendall House 804 E Fremont St, Laramie, WY 82072, USA
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- California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, 787 N Main St., Bishop, CA 93514, USA
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- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Bim Kendall House 804 E Fremont St, Laramie, WY 82072, USA
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White KS, Hood E, Wolken GJ, Peitzsch EH, Bühler Y, Wikstrom Jones K, Darimont CT. Snow avalanches are a primary climate-linked driver of mountain ungulate populations. Commun Biol 2024; 7:423. [PMID: 38684895 PMCID: PMC11058775 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-06073-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024] Open
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Snow is a major, climate-sensitive feature of the Earth's surface and catalyst of fundamentally important ecosystem processes. Understanding how snow influences sentinel species in rapidly changing mountain ecosystems is particularly critical. Whereas effects of snow on food availability, energy expenditure, and predation are well documented, we report how avalanches exert major impacts on an ecologically significant mountain ungulate - the coastal Alaskan mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus). Using long-term GPS data and field observations across four populations (421 individuals over 17 years), we show that avalanches caused 23-65% of all mortality, depending on area. Deaths varied seasonally and were directly linked to spatial movement patterns and avalanche terrain use. Population-level avalanche mortality, 61% of which comprised reproductively important prime-aged individuals, averaged 8% annually and exceeded 22% when avalanche conditions were severe. Our findings reveal a widespread but previously undescribed pathway by which snow can elicit major population-level impacts and shape demographic characteristics of slow-growing populations of mountain-adapted animals.
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- Kevin S White
- Department of Natural Sciences, Program on the Environment, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, 99801, USA.
- Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada.
- Division of Wildlife Conservation (ret.), Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau, AK, 99811, USA.
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- Department of Natural Sciences, Program on the Environment, University of Alaska Southeast, Juneau, AK, 99801, USA
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- Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Climate and Cryosphere Hazards Program, Fairbanks, AK, 99709, USA
- Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, West Glacier, Montana, MT, 59936, USA
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- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos CH-7260, Davos, Switzerland
- Climate Change, Extremes and Natural Hazards in Alpine Regions Research Centre CERC, Davos CH-7260, Davos, Switzerland
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- Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA
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- Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada
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Enns GE, Jex B, Boyce MS. Diverse migration patterns and seasonal habitat use of Stone's sheep ( Ovis dalli stonei). PeerJ 2023; 11:e15215. [PMID: 37342360 PMCID: PMC10278595 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.15215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/22/2023] Open
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We describe temporal and spatial patterns of seasonal space-use and migration by 16 GPS-collared Stone's sheep (Ovis dalli stonei) from nine bands in the Cassiar Mountains of northern British Columbia, Canada. Our objectives were to identify the timing of spring and fall migrations, characterize summer and winter ranges, map and describe migration routes and use of stopover sites, and document altitudinal change across seasons. Our last objective was to assess individual migration strategies based on patterns of geographic migration, altitudinal migration, or residency. Median start and end dates of the spring migration were 12 and 17 Jun (range: 20 May to 05 Aug), and of the fall migration were 30 Aug and 22 Sep (range: 21 Aug to 07 Jan). The median area of winter and summer ranges for geographic migrants were 630.8 ha and 2,829.0 ha, respectively, with a broad range from about 233.6 to 10,196.2 ha. Individuals showed high fidelity to winter ranges over the limited duration of the study. The winter and summer ranges of most individuals (n = 15) were at moderate to high elevations with a median summer elevation of 1,709 m (1,563-1,827 m) and 1,673 m (1,478-1,751 m) that varied <150 m between ranges. Almost all collared females (n = 14) exhibited changes in elevation use that coincide with abbreviated altitudinal migration. Specifically, these females descended to lower spring elevations from their winter range (Δ > 150 m), and then gradually moved up to higher-elevation summer ranges (Δ > 150 m). In the fall, they descended to lower elevations (Δ > 100 m) before returning to their higher winter ranges. The median distance travelled along geographic migration routes was 16.3 km (range: 7.6-47.4 km). During the spring migration, most geographic migrants (n = 8) used at least one stopover site (median = 1.5, range: 0-4), while almost all migrants (n = 11) used stopover sites more frequently in the fall (median = 2.5, range: 0-6). Of the 13 migratory individuals that had at least one other collared individual in their band, most migrated at about the same time, occupied the same summer and winter ranges, used similar migration routes and stopover sites, and exhibited the same migration strategy. We found collared females exhibited four different migration strategies which mostly varied across bands. Migration strategies included long-distance geographic migrants (n = 5), short-distance geographic migrants (n = 5), vacillating migrants (n = 2), and abbreviated altitudinal migrants (n = 4). Different migratory strategies occurred within one band where one collared individual migrated and two did not. We conclude that female Stone's sheep in the Cassiar Mountains displayed a diverse assemblage of seasonal habitat use and migratory behaviors. By delineating seasonal ranges, migration routes and stopover sites, we identify potential areas of priority that can help inform land-use planning and preserve the native migrations of Stone's sheep in the region.
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- Grace E. Enns
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- WSP Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Fish & Wildlife Branch, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Smithers, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Merkle JA, Gage J, Sawyer H, Lowrey B, Kauffman MJ. Migration Mapper: Identifying movement corridors and seasonal ranges for large mammal conservation. Methods Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Jerod A. Merkle
- Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming Laramie WY USA
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- Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc. Laramie WY USA
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- Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming Laramie WY USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming Laramie WY USA
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Denryter K, Conner MM, Stephenson TR, German DW, Monteith KL. Survival of the fattest: how body fat and migration influence survival in highly seasonal environments. Funct Ecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Kristin Denryter
- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources University of Wyoming, 804 East Fremont Laramie WY USA
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- Utah State University Department of Wildland Resources, 5320 Old Main Hill Logan UT USA
- California Department of Fish and Wildlife, 787 North Main Street, Suite 220 Bishop CA USA
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- California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, 787 North Main Street, Suite 220 Bishop CA USA
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- California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, 787 North Main Street, Suite 220 Bishop CA USA
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- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, 804 East Fremont Laramie WY USA
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Smiley RA, Wagler BL, LaSharr TN, Denryter KA, Stephenson TR, Courtemanch AB, Mong TW, Lutz D, McWhirter D, Brimeyer D, Hnilicka P, Lowrey B, Monteith KL. Heterogeneity in risk‐sensitive allocation of somatic reserves in a long‐lived mammal. Ecosphere 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Rachel A. Smiley
- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming USA
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- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming USA
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- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming USA
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- Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, California Department of Fish and Wildlife Bishop California USA
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- Wyoming Game and Fish Department Cody Wyoming USA
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- Wyoming Game and Fish Department Lander Wyoming USA
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- Wyoming Game and Fish Department Cheyenne Wyoming USA
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- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program, Department of Ecology Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming USA
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Spatial ecology of female bighorn sheep in a prairie landscape in Nebraska. J Wildl Manage 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Denryter K, Fischer JK. Mitigating anthropogenic barriers to facilitate distributional shifts helps reduce vulnerability of a large herbivore to climate change. Anim Conserv 2022. [DOI: 10.1111/acv.12776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- K. Denryter
- Wildlife Branch California Department of Fish and Wildlife West Sacramento California USA
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- Wildlife Branch California Department of Fish and Wildlife West Sacramento California USA
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Flesch E, Graves T, Thomson J, Proffitt K, Garrott R. Average kinship within bighorn sheep populations is associated with connectivity, augmentation, and bottlenecks. Ecosphere 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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- Elizabeth Flesch
- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program, Ecology Department Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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- Glacier Field Station U.S. Geological Survey West Glacier Montana USA
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- Animal and Range Sciences Department Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program, Ecology Department Montana State University Bozeman Montana USA
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Berger DJ, German DW, John C, Hart R, Stephenson TR, Avgar T. Seeing Is Be-Leaving: Perception Informs Migratory Decisions in Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis sierrae). Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.742275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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Seasonal migration is a behavioral response to predictable variation in environmental resources, risks, and conditions. In behaviorally plastic migrants, migration is a conditional strategy that depends, in part, on an individual’s informational state. The cognitive processes that underlie how facultative migrants understand and respond to their environment are not well understood. We compared perception of the present environment to memory and omniscience as competing cognitive mechanisms driving altitudinal migratory decisions in an endangered ungulate, the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis sierrae) using 1,298 animal years of data, encompassing 460 unique individuals. We built a suite of statistical models to partition variation in fall migratory status explained by cognitive predictors, while controlling for non-cognitive drivers. To approximate attribute memory, we included lagged attributes of the range an individual experienced in the previous year. We quantified perception by limiting an individual’s knowledge of migratory range to the area and attributes visible from its summer range, prior to migrating. Our results show that perception, in addition to the migratory propensity of an individual’s social group, and an individual’s migratory history are the best predictors of migration in our system. Our findings suggest that short-distance altitudinal migration is, in part, a response to an individual’s perception of conditions on alterative winter range. In long-distance partial migrants, exploration of migratory decision-making has been limited, but it is unlikely that migratory decisions would be based on sensory cues from a remote target range. Differing cognitive mechanisms underpinning short and long-distance migratory decisions will result in differing levels of behavioral plasticity in response to global climate change and anthropogenic disturbance, with important implications for management and conservation of migratory species.
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Milligan MC, Johnston AN, Beck JL, Smith KT, Taylor KL, Hall E, Knox L, Cufaude T, Wallace C, Chong G, Kauffman MJ. Variable effects of wind‐energy development on seasonal habitat selection of pronghorn. Ecosphere 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Megan C. Milligan
- U.S. Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center 2324 University Way, Suite 2 Bozeman Montana 59715 USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center 2324 University Way, Suite 2 Bozeman Montana 59715 USA
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming 82071 USA
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming 82071 USA
- Western Ecosystems Technology Incorporated 1610 East Reynolds Street Laramie Wyoming 82072 USA
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- Department of Ecosystem Science and Management University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming 82071 USA
- Grouse Mountain Environmental Consultants 760 West Fetterman Street Buffalo Wyoming 82834 USA
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- Wyoming Game and Fish Department 1212 S. Adams Street Laramie Wyoming 82070 USA
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- Wyoming Game and Fish Department 1212 S. Adams Street Laramie Wyoming 82070 USA
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- Wyoming Game and Fish Department 1212 S. Adams Street Laramie Wyoming 82070 USA
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- Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming 82701 USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center 2324 University Way, Suite 2 Bozeman Montana 59715 USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit University of Wyoming Laramie Wyoming 82071 USA
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Kauffman MJ, Aikens EO, Esmaeili S, Kaczensky P, Middleton A, Monteith KL, Morrison TA, Mueller T, Sawyer H, Goheen JR. Causes, Consequences, and Conservation of Ungulate Migration. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND SYSTEMATICS 2021. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-012021-011516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
Abstract
Our understanding of ungulate migration is advancing rapidly due to innovations in modern animal tracking. Herein, we review and synthesize nearly seven decades of work on migration and other long-distance movements of wild ungulates. Although it has long been appreciated that ungulates migrate to enhance access to forage, recent contributions demonstrate that their movements are fine tuned to dynamic landscapes where forage, snow, and drought change seasonally. Researchers are beginning to understand how ungulates navigate migrations, with the emerging view that animals blend gradient tracking with spatial memory, some of which is socially learned. Although migration often promotes abundant populations—with broad effects on ecosystems—many migrations around the world have been lost or are currently threatened by habitat fragmentation, climate change, and barriers to movement. Fortunately, new efforts that use empirical tracking data to map migrations in detail are facilitating effective conservation measures to maintain ungulate migration.
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- Matthew J. Kauffman
- U.S. Geological Survey, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
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- Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behavior, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
- Department of Migration, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, 78315 Radolfzell, Germany
- Department of Biology, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany
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- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
- Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA
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- Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (INN), NO-2480 Koppang, Norway
- University of Veterinary Sciences Vienna, Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, A-1160 Vienna, Austria
- Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California 94709, USA
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- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82072, USA
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- Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health, and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 60325 Frankfurt (Main), Germany
- Department of Biological Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt (Main), Germany
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- Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc., Laramie, Wyoming 82072, USA
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- Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
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Lowrey B, DeVoe JD, Proffitt KM, Garrott RA. Behavior‐specific habitat models as a tool to inform ungulate restoration. Ecosphere 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- B. Lowrey
- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program Department of Ecology Montana State University Bozeman Montana 59717 USA
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- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program Department of Ecology Montana State University Bozeman Montana 59717 USA
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- Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks 1400 South 19th Avenue Bozeman Montana 59718 USA
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- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program Department of Ecology Montana State University Bozeman Montana 59717 USA
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Denryter K, Stephenson TR, Monteith KL. Broadening the migratory portfolio of altitudinal migrants. Ecology 2021; 102:e03321. [PMID: 33690892 PMCID: PMC8459274 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Revised: 01/14/2021] [Accepted: 02/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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- Kristin Denryter
- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming, 804 East Fremont, Laramie, Wyoming, 82072, USA
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- Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery Program, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, 787 North Main Street, Suite 220, Bishop, California, 93514, USA
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- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Zoology and Physiology, and Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wyoming, 804 East Fremont, Laramie, Wyoming, 82072, USA
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Proffitt KM, Courtemanch AB, Dewey SR, Lowrey B, McWhirter DE, Monteith K, Paterson JT, Rotella J, White PJ, Garrott RA. Regional variability in pregnancy and survival rates of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. Ecosphere 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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- Kelly M. Proffitt
- Montana Department of Fish Wildlife, and Parks 1400 South 19th Avenue Bozeman Montana59718USA
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- Grand Teton National Park P.O. Box 170 Moose Wyoming83012USA
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- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program Department of Ecology Montana State University 310 Lewis Hall Bozeman Montana59717USA
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- Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Department of Zoology and Physiology University of Wyoming 804 East Fremont Street Laramie Wyoming82072USA
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- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program Department of Ecology Montana State University 310 Lewis Hall Bozeman Montana59717USA
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- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program Department of Ecology Montana State University 310 Lewis Hall Bozeman Montana59717USA
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- Yellowstone Center for Resources Yellowstone National Park National Park Service Mammoth Wyoming82190USA
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- Fish and Wildlife Ecology and Management Program Department of Ecology Montana State University 310 Lewis Hall Bozeman Montana59717USA
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