Whooping crane migration habitat selection disturbance data and maps
Dates
Publication Date
2022-07-13
Start Date
2010
End Date
2016
Citation
Pearse, A.T., Ellis, K.S., Brandt, D.A., Bidwell, M.T., and Harrell, W., 2022, Whooping crane migration habitat selection disturbance data and maps: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P902I4WO.
Summary
These data and maps were developed to support an effort to understand how whooping cranes (Grus americana) select stopover habitat in the presence of human infrastructure. Location and associated data came from whooping cranes from the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population, 2010–2016. We marked a sample of 57 whooping cranes with leg-mounted transmitters that acquired locations via the global positioning system (GPS) network and transmitted those data through the Argos satellite system. Cranes were captured either at their natal areas in and adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada or at their southern terminus along the Texas Gulf Coast, USA.
Summary
These data and maps were developed to support an effort to understand how whooping cranes (Grus americana) select stopover habitat in the presence of human infrastructure. Location and associated data came from whooping cranes from the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population, 2010–2016. We marked a sample of 57 whooping cranes with leg-mounted transmitters that acquired locations via the global positioning system (GPS) network and transmitted those data through the Argos satellite system. Cranes were captured either at their natal areas in and adjacent to Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada or at their southern terminus along the Texas Gulf Coast, USA.
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Ellis, K.S., Pearse, A.T., Brandt, D.A., Bidwell, M.T., Harrell, W., Butler, M.J., and Post van der Burg, M., 2022, Balancing future renewable energy infrastructure siting and associated habitat loss for migrating whooping cranes: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, v. 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.931260.
Determine which landscape factors influenced the probability of whooping cranes using sites to stop, rest, and forage during migration (i.e., stopover sites), including surface water, land use, and potential disturbance from human infrastructure. To identify potential avoidance behavior, we estimated a threshold distance at which infrastructure affected habitat selection (i.e., zone of influence).
