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- Title
Survival and Cause-Specific Mortality of Merriam's Wild Turkeys in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico.
- Authors
Peyton, Mark A.; Kindschuh, Sarah R.; Bernal, Lance J.; Parmenter, Robert R.; Gipson, Philip S.
- Abstract
Merriam's Wild Turkeys ( Meleagris gallopavo merriami) is a species of interest for managers and is considered economically valuable through wildlife viewing and hunting. We captured, radio-marked, and monitored 49 turkeys (27 males, 22 females) over a 3-year period (2008-2011) in the Valles Caldera National Preserve, Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. Annual Kaplan-Meier survival estimates varied among years (range 0.33-0.80). Lowest seasonal survival of 0.42 (SE 0.14) occurred during winter 2010 (1 Dec 2009-31 Mar 2010). We observed 20 fatalities of the 49 monitored turkeys. Predation by bobcats ( Lynx rufus) and pumas ( Puma concolor) accounted for 60% ( n = 12) of losses. Hunter harvest (20%), vehicle collision (5%), disease (5%), and unknown causes (10%) accounted for the remaining losses.
- Subjects
JEMEZ Mountains (N.M.); WILD turkey; KAPLAN-Meier estimator; SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry); BOBCAT; LYNX (Genus)
- Publication
Western North American Naturalist, 2014, Vol 74, Issue 2, p236
- ISSN
1527-0904
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3398/064.074.0211