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Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes
Monitoring postrelease establishment and movement of animals is important in evaluating conservation translocations. We translocated 39 wild pine martens Martes martes (19 females, 20 males) from Scotland to Wales. We released them into forested areas with no conspecifics in 2015, followed by a seco...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297779/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32551086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6265 |
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author | McNicol, Catherine M. Bavin, David Bearhop, Stuart Bridges, Josie Croose, Elizabeth Gill, Robin Goodwin, Cecily E. D. Lewis, John MacPherson, Jenny Padfield, Daniel Schofield, Henry Silk, Matthew J. Tomlinson, Alexandra J. McDonald, Robbie A. |
author_facet | McNicol, Catherine M. Bavin, David Bearhop, Stuart Bridges, Josie Croose, Elizabeth Gill, Robin Goodwin, Cecily E. D. Lewis, John MacPherson, Jenny Padfield, Daniel Schofield, Henry Silk, Matthew J. Tomlinson, Alexandra J. McDonald, Robbie A. |
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description | Monitoring postrelease establishment and movement of animals is important in evaluating conservation translocations. We translocated 39 wild pine martens Martes martes (19 females, 20 males) from Scotland to Wales. We released them into forested areas with no conspecifics in 2015, followed by a second release in 2016, alongside the previously released animals. We used radio‐tracking to describe postrelease movement and habitat selection. Six martens (15%) were not re‐encountered during the tracking period, of which four undertook long‐distance dispersal. For the remaining individuals, we characterized two phases of movement, “exploration” followed by “settlement,” that differed between releases. In the first release, martens remained in exploration phase for a mean of 14.5 days (SE = 3.9 days) and settled at a mean distance of 8.7 km (SE = 1.8 km) from release sites, whereas martens released in year two, alongside resident conspecifics, traveled away from release sites at a faster rate, settling sooner, at a mean of 6.6 days (SE = 1.8 days), but further, at a mean distance of 14.0 km (SE = 1.7 km) from release sites. Animals released in year one did not exhibit habitat preferences overall but within forests they favored recently felled areas, whereas animals released in year two showed strong selection for forested habitat but did not discriminate between forest types. The presence of conspecifics appeared influential for settlement and site fidelity of translocated martens and was associated with more rapid but more distant dispersal of the later cohort. Releases of animals in close proximity appeared to promote site fidelity and rapid establishment of ranges in the recipient environment. |
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spelling | pubmed-72977792020-06-17 Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes McNicol, Catherine M. Bavin, David Bearhop, Stuart Bridges, Josie Croose, Elizabeth Gill, Robin Goodwin, Cecily E. D. Lewis, John MacPherson, Jenny Padfield, Daniel Schofield, Henry Silk, Matthew J. Tomlinson, Alexandra J. McDonald, Robbie A. Ecol Evol Original Research Monitoring postrelease establishment and movement of animals is important in evaluating conservation translocations. We translocated 39 wild pine martens Martes martes (19 females, 20 males) from Scotland to Wales. We released them into forested areas with no conspecifics in 2015, followed by a second release in 2016, alongside the previously released animals. We used radio‐tracking to describe postrelease movement and habitat selection. Six martens (15%) were not re‐encountered during the tracking period, of which four undertook long‐distance dispersal. For the remaining individuals, we characterized two phases of movement, “exploration” followed by “settlement,” that differed between releases. In the first release, martens remained in exploration phase for a mean of 14.5 days (SE = 3.9 days) and settled at a mean distance of 8.7 km (SE = 1.8 km) from release sites, whereas martens released in year two, alongside resident conspecifics, traveled away from release sites at a faster rate, settling sooner, at a mean of 6.6 days (SE = 1.8 days), but further, at a mean distance of 14.0 km (SE = 1.7 km) from release sites. Animals released in year one did not exhibit habitat preferences overall but within forests they favored recently felled areas, whereas animals released in year two showed strong selection for forested habitat but did not discriminate between forest types. The presence of conspecifics appeared influential for settlement and site fidelity of translocated martens and was associated with more rapid but more distant dispersal of the later cohort. Releases of animals in close proximity appeared to promote site fidelity and rapid establishment of ranges in the recipient environment. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7297779/ /pubmed/32551086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6265 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Research McNicol, Catherine M. Bavin, David Bearhop, Stuart Bridges, Josie Croose, Elizabeth Gill, Robin Goodwin, Cecily E. D. Lewis, John MacPherson, Jenny Padfield, Daniel Schofield, Henry Silk, Matthew J. Tomlinson, Alexandra J. McDonald, Robbie A. Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes |
title | Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes
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title_full | Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes
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title_fullStr | Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes
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title_full_unstemmed | Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes
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title_short | Postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens Martes martes
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title_sort | postrelease movement and habitat selection of translocated pine martens martes martes |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297779/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32551086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6265 |
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