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Experimental evaluation of predator exclosures on nest, chick, and adult survival data for the Northern Great Plains piping plover, 2014 - 2016

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2014
End Date
2016

Citation

Swift, R.J., Anteau, M.J., Sherfy, M.H., Koons, D.N., Ellis, K.S., Shaffer, T.L., Ring, M.M., and Toy, D.L., 2021, Experimental evaluation of predator exclosures on nest, chick, and adult survival data for the Northern Great Plains piping plover, 2014 - 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YUXKEC.

Summary

This dataset presents four tabular data files that evaluate the effect of predator exclosures around piping plover (Charadrius melodus) nests on plover nest, chick, within-season, and annual adult survival. During 2014-2016, we designed an experiment to examine nest (n = 418), chick (n = 453), and adult (n = 367) survival at alkaline wetlands of the Northern Great Plains. Alkaline wetlands were divided between treatment wetlands and control wetlands (no exclosures placed anywhere on wetland). Field crews aimed to place predator exclosures around half of all plover nests found resulting in three treatment types: uncaged nest on control wetland, uncaged nest on treatment wetland, and caged nest on treatment wetland. The nest survival [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Michael J Anteau, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Originator :
Rose J Swift, Michael J Anteau, Mark H Sherfy, David N Koons, Kristen S. Ellis, Terry L Shaffer, Megan Ring, Dustin L Toy
Metadata Contact :
Rose J Swift, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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ALPES_Metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		41.83 KB application/fgdc+xml
ALPES_AnnualAdultSurvival.txt 29.31 KB text/plain
ALPES_ChickSurvival.csv 34.89 KB text/csv
ALPES_NestSurvival.csv 85.1 KB text/csv
ALPES_WithinAdultSurvival.txt 37.08 KB text/plain

Purpose

Nest cages, which exclude nest predators, have been widely adopted and used by managers at nearly all important breeding areas for plovers; however, in recent years, concerns about the efficacy of nest cages, coupled with the cost of deploying cages in dispersed and remote areas, has led managers to suspend the use of nest cages at breeding areas in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of the Northern Great Plains. This data was collected to address concerns about whether nest cages produce more fledglings and to evaluate if they have any negative effect on either within-season or annual adult survival. In addition, we collected data to confirm the results from other studies that nest cages improve nest survival. Combined these data would provide information to managers for making decisions about the long-term efficacy of their nest-caging programs.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9YUXKEC

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