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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
Volume 92, Issue 4, Pages 319-330Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2013-0263
Keywords
Anthropogenic development; antipredation strategy; Centrocercus urophasianus; Greater Sage-Grouse; habitat; parental investment; survival
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- Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
- Jack H. Berryman Institute
- Lincoln County Predator Management Board
- Predatory Animal District of Sweetwater County
- School of Energy Resources at the University of Wyoming
- South Central Wyoming Local Sage-Grouse Work Group
- Utah Agricultural Experiment Station [8531]
- Uinta County Predator Management Board
- Wyoming Animal Damage Management Board
- Wyoming Game and Fish Department
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Survival of breeding-age hens has been identified as the demographic rate with the greatest potential to influence population growth of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte, 1827); hereafter Sage-Grouse). During 2008-2011, we collected summer survival data from 427 Sage-Grouse hens in southern Wyoming, USA. We assessed the effects of raptor densities, anthropogenic features, landscape features, and Sage-Grouse hen behavior on Sage-Grouse hen survival. Survival of Sage-Grouse hens was positively associated with the proportion of big sagebrush (genus Artemisia L.) habitat within 0.27 km radius and road density and negatively associated with power-line density, proximity to forested habitat, and topographic ruggedness index within 0.27 km radius (TRI0.27). Raptor densities did not have individual effects on Sage-Grouse survival; however, an interaction between site-specific exposure to Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos (L., 1758)) density (GOEA) and TRI0.27 indicated that negative effects of GOEA and TRI0.27 were dampened in areas with both high TRI0.27 and high GOEA. Survival of nonreproductive hens was greater than brooding or nesting hens. Hens that stayed in intermediate-size flocks and yearling hens had higher survival than hens in small or large flocks and hens >2 years old. Results indicated that risk of death for Sage-Grouse hens was greater relative to potential raptor perches but not anthropogenic and landscape variables that could provide food subsidies for predators.
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