Estimating distribution and connectivity of recolonizing American marten in the northeastern United States using expert elicitation techniques: Study area
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- Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative
- Address:
705 Spear Street
South Burlington, Vermont 05403
United States of America
Phone: (802) 391-4135
Email: femc@uvm.edu
Website: www.uvm.edu/femc
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The American marten Martes americana is a species of conservation concern in the northeastern United States due to widespread declines from over-harvesting and habitat loss. Little information exists on current marten distribution and how landscape characteristics shape patterns of occupancy across the region, which could help develop effective recovery strategies. The rarity of marten and lack of historical distribution records are also problematic for region-wide conservation planning. Expert opinion can provide a source of information for estimating species–landscape relationships and is especially useful when empirical data are sparse. We created a survey to elicit expert opinion and build a model that describes marten occupancy in the northeastern United States as a function of landscape conditions.
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- Terri Donovan: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider
- William Kilpatrick: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider
- James Murdoch: dataset_eml_peopleprincipleinvestigator
- Cody Aylward: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider
- Chris Bernier: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider
- Jon Katz: dataset_eml_peoplecontentprovider
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- Northeastern States Research Cooperative : funder
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture: funder
- University of Vermont Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources: lead
- Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit : partner
- Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department : partner
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- dataset_eml_datatabletitle: Study area
- dataset_eml_datatablestartdate: 2015-01-01
- dataset_eml_datatableendate: 2018-01-01
- dataset_eml_datatabledescription: This is a shapefile of the marten project study area, which includes Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and upstate New York. For details on the study area, please see: Aylward, C. M., J. D. Murdoch, T. M. Donovan, C. W. Kilpatrick, C. Bernier, and J. Katz. 2018. Estimating distribution and connectivity of recolonizing American marten in the northeastern United States using expert elicitation techniques. Animal Conservation (doi:10.1111/acv.12417). The shapefile may be useful for providing geographic context to the marten corridor map (also included as a dataset in this project; see figure 5 in the paper).
- dataset_eml_datatablepurpose: Estimating movement corridors between isolated core populations of the American marten using circuit theory. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of expert-opinion data at modeling occupancy for rare species and provide tools for planning marten recovery in
- dateset_eml_datatableshortname: 20180531125438_marten_study_area.zip
- dataset_eml_datatablephysicalobjectname: VMC.1266.2517
- dataset_eml_datatabledatatype: mySQL
- dataset_eml_datatablecitation: James Murdoch (2018) Marten project study area. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/marten/dataset/study_area
- dataset_eml_datatableonlinedistribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/CI4/data/archive/project/marten/dataset/study_area
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