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Citizen based monitoring and the charismatic megafauna of Wisconsin

Citizen based monitoring and the charismatic megafauna of Wisconsin. Timothy Van Deelen David MacFarland University of Wisconsin at Madison. ALLposters.com. Charismatic megafauna.

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Citizen based monitoring and the charismatic megafauna of Wisconsin

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  1. Citizen based monitoring and the charismatic megafauna of Wisconsin Timothy Van Deelen David MacFarland University of Wisconsin at Madison ALLposters.com

  2. Charismatic megafauna charismatic megafaunanoun. Animals that have popular appeal and so can form the basis of conservation campaigns and fundraising drives.

  3. ALLposters.com

  4. White-tailed deer in Wisconsin

  5. Early population influences • Native American hunting • Fur trade • Logging • Settlement • Market hunting

  6. Increasing regulation Ecologically meaningful DMUs Mandatory harvest registration Variable quotas Sex-Age-Kill Early 20th Century to now

  7. Plastic food habits... Survey of National Park Managers: 98 species of plants threaten by overabundant deer in human-influenced landscapes (Miller et al. 1992)

  8. Waller and Alverson 1997

  9. University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives “This effect of too many deer on the ground flora of the forest deserves special mention because it is an elusive burglary of esthetic wealth, the more dangerous because unintentional and unseen…” - Leopold

  10. Recent population trend R. Rolley WI DNR

  11. Sex-Age-Kill

  12. Sex-Age-Kill

  13. Wolves

  14. Changes in Wisconsin Gray Wolf Population: 1980-2006

  15. 2005 – 2006 Wolf Packs

  16. Citizen wolf trackers

  17. Black Bears

  18. Large animal life table, r = -0.10 Notation follows Caughley, 1977. Analysis of vertebrate populations

  19. The expanded life table Generation time: G=Σl(x)m(x)x/Σl(x)m(x) Net reproductive rate: Ro= Σl(x)m(x) r ≈ ln(Ro)/G Euler-Lotka equation: Σl(x)m(x)exp(-rx) = 1

  20. CBM-Sponsored bear project(you want HOW much tetracycline?)

  21. Citizen contributed rib samples

  22. Petersen Population Estimate from Tetracycline Marking No. bears in pop. (N) No. samples examined (n) —————————— = ———————————— No. marked in pop. (M) No. marked in sample (m) Nest=M * (n/m)

  23. Increasing management problem: bears and agriculture

  24. Wisconsin moose

  25. Wisconsin cougar

  26. Next generation payoffs of Citizen-Based MonitoringSome examples

  27. What’s more effective baiting or T-zones? T-zone Baiting Change in harvest

  28. Does feeding increase the growth of the deer population?

  29. How large will the wolf population get?

  30. How do wolves impact the growth of the deer population?(± 1 SE)

  31. Where will bears conflict with farmers and how soon?

  32. Thank you.

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