4. Acceptance level
of elk by county
and census block
km
County
Census block
Quartiles indicate
level of stakeholder
concern: 1st quartile
(gray) = least amount
of concern, 4th
quartile (red) = most
amount of concern.
18. 2
1 Environmental data
Response functions of model parameters
4
Mountain goat locations
Model fitting
and validation
Apply model coefficients to ENVR data
Predictive occurrence map
3
5
6
29. March
River gauge reading (feet)
55
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Dry land area (acres)
8000
7000
6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
Water level
Land area
Flood stage (37 ft)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Feb April May June July
30. Flood
phase
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
March Feb April May June July
Dates Flood
phase
duration
(days)
No. of
bucks
wearing
collars
No. deer
locations
Mean no.
locations
per deer
1 8 Feb – 13 April 65 18 7670 590
2 14 April– 27 April 14 18 2107 162
3 28 April – 6 May 9 17 1341 103
4 7 May – 28 May 22 17 2899 264
5 29 May – 10 June 13 15 1348 150
6 11 Jun – 22 June 12 13 1216 152
7 23 June – 26 Aug 65 13 13904 1738
31. 7,645 ac
Flood Phase 1
(8 February – 13 April)
11 April 2011
Feb March April May June July
32. Flood Phase 2
(14-27 April)
28 April 2011
Feb March April May June July
5,929 ac
33. Flood Phase 3
(28 April – 6 May)
6 May 2011
Feb March April May June July
11 ac
34. Flood Phase 4
(7-28 May)
16 May 2011
Feb March April May June July
8 ac
35. Flood Phase 5
(19 May – 10 June)
28 May 2011
Feb March April May June July
11 ac
36. Flood Phase 6
(11-22 June)
9 June 2011
Feb March April May June July
5,929 ac
37. Flood Phase 7
(23 June – 26 August)
23 June 2011
Feb March April May June July
7,645 ac
61. We used nuclear
microsatellite loci
to investigate the
sources of bears
in southern MO.
The majority of
bears in the
Ozarks represent
a single genetic
unit.
Missouri
Arkansas
62.
63.
64. Dispersal . . .
is an act of permanent movement of an
individual away from the home area
to another population.
has demographic, conservation,
management, and evolutionary
implications.
65. Female philopatry and male dispersal
in PA (Alt 1978) and MN (Rogers
1987).
Alt-Rogers paradigm
66. Ron
Van Den
Bussche
John Cox
Jerry Belant
Colin
Carpenter
Jaime
Joe Clark Sajecki
Frank Van Manen
Source pops ( ):OZ, OU, TN, VA, WV
Expanding pops ( ):OK, MO, BSF, PM
67. Region Sources of microsatellites
OK Live capture
OZ Hair snare
OU Hair snare
MO Hair snare
TN Hair snare
BSF Hair snare
PM Live capture, road kill, nuisance, poach
VA Hair snare, live capture, road kill,
harvest
WV Live capture
AR
KY
68. Population N Female Male
Interior Highlands
OU 77 43 34
OZ 96 48 48
OK 20 11 9
MO 113 66 47
Southern Appalachians
BSF 19 7 12
PM 84 26 58
TN 22 11 11
VA 8 2 6