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Sells SN, Podruzny KM, Nowak JJ, Smucker TD, Parks TW, Boyd DK, Nelson AA, Lance NJ, Inman RM, Gude JA, Bassing SB, Loonam KE, Mitchell MS. Integrating basic and applied research to estimate carnivore abundance. Ecol Appl 2022; 32:e2714. [PMID: 36184581 DOI: 10.1002/eap.2714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2021] [Revised: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 06/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A clear connection between basic research and applied management is often missing or difficult to discern. We present a case study of integration of basic research with applied management for estimating abundance of gray wolves (Canis lupus) in Montana, USA. Estimating wolf abundance is a key component of wolf management but is costly and time intensive as wolf populations continue to grow. We developed a multimodel approach using an occupancy model, mechanistic territory model, and empirical group size model to improve abundance estimates while reducing monitoring effort. Whereas field-based wolf counts generally rely on costly, difficult-to-collect monitoring data, especially for larger areas or population sizes, our approach efficiently uses readily available wolf observation data and introduces models focused on biological mechanisms underlying territorial and social behavior. In a three-part process, the occupancy model first estimates the extent of wolf distribution in Montana, based on environmental covariates and wolf observations. The spatially explicit mechanistic territory model predicts territory sizes using simple behavioral rules and data on prey resources, terrain ruggedness, and human density. Together, these models predict the number of packs. An empirical pack size model based on 14 years of data demonstrates that pack sizes are positively related to local densities of packs, and negatively related to terrain ruggedness, local mortalities, and intensity of harvest management. Total abundance estimates for given areas are derived by combining estimated numbers of packs and pack sizes. We estimated the Montana wolf population to be smallest in the first year of our study, with 91 packs and 654 wolves in 2007, followed by a population peak in 2011 with 1252 wolves. The population declined ~6% thereafter, coincident with implementation of legal harvest in Montana. Recent numbers have largely stabilized at an average of 191 packs and 1141 wolves from 2016 to 2020. This new approach accounts for biologically based, spatially explicit predictions of behavior to provide more accurate estimates of carnivore abundance at finer spatial scales. By integrating basic and applied research, our approach can therefore better inform decision-making and meet management needs.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sarah N Sells
- Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Great Falls, Montana, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Missoula, Montana, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Kalispell, Montana, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Helena, Montana, USA
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- School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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Sells SN, Mitchell MS, Podruzny KM, Ausband DE, Emlen DJ, Gude JA, Smucker TD, Boyd DK, Loonam KE. Competition, prey, and mortalities influence gray wolf group size. J Wildl Manage 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Sarah N. Sells
- Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Biology Program, 205 Natural Sciences Building University of Montana, Missoula Montana 59812 USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Biology Program, 205 Natural Sciences Building University of Montana Missoula Montana 59812 USA
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, 875 Perimeter Drive MS 1141 University of Idaho Moscow Idaho 83844 USA
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- Division of Biological Sciences University of Montana Missoula Montana 59812
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks 1420 E. 6th St. Helena MT 59620
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks 4600 Giant Springs Road Great Falls MT 59405
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks 490 North Meridian Road Kalispell MT 59901
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- Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Biology Program, 205 Natural Sciences Building University of Montana, Missoula Montana 59812 USA
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Sells SN, Mitchell MS, Podruzny KM, Gude JA, Keever AC, Boyd DK, Smucker TD, Nelson AA, Parks TW, Lance NJ, Ross MS, Inman RM. Evidence of economical territory selection in a cooperative carnivore. Proc Biol Sci 2021; 288:20210108. [PMID: 33653139 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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As an outcome of natural selection, animals are probably adapted to select territories economically by maximizing benefits and minimizing costs of territory ownership. Theory and empirical precedent indicate that a primary benefit of many territories is exclusive access to food resources, and primary costs of defending and using space are associated with competition, travel and mortality risk. A recently developed mechanistic model for economical territory selection provided numerous empirically testable predictions. We tested these predictions using location data from grey wolves (Canis lupus) in Montana, USA. As predicted, territories were smaller in areas with greater densities of prey, competitors and low-use roads, and for groups of greater size. Territory size increased before decreasing curvilinearly with greater terrain ruggedness and harvest mortalities. Our study provides evidence for the economical selection of territories as a causal mechanism underlying ecological patterns observed in a cooperative carnivore. Results demonstrate how a wide range of environmental and social conditions will influence economical behaviour and resulting space use. We expect similar responses would be observed in numerous territorial species. A mechanistic approach enables understanding how and why animals select particular territories. This knowledge can be used to enhance conservation efforts and more successfully predict effects of conservation actions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sarah N Sells
- Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, 205 Natural Sciences Building, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
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- US Geological Survey, Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, 205 Natural Sciences Building, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 1420 E. 6th Street, Helena, MT 59620, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 1420 E. 6th Street, Helena, MT 59620, USA
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- Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Biology Program, University of Montana, 205 Natural Sciences Building, Missoula, MT 59812, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 490 North Meridian Road, Kalispell, MT 59901, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 4600 Giant Springs Road, Great Falls, MT 59405, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 3201 Spurgin Road, Missoula, MT 59804, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 1400 South 19th, Bozeman, MT 59718, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 1400 South 19th, Bozeman, MT 59718, USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 1420 E. 6th Street, Helena, MT 59620, USA
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Jimenez MD, Bangs EE, Boyd DK, Smith DW, Becker SA, Ausband DE, Woodruff SP, Bradley EH, Holyan J, Laudon K. Wolf dispersal in the Rocky Mountains, Western United States: 1993-2008. J Wildl Manage 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 585 Shepard Way Helena MT 59601 USA
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- Wildlife Biology Program, Forestry 311C, College of Forestry and Conservation; 32 Campus Drive Missoula MT 59812 USA
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- National Park Service, Center for Resources; P.O. Box 168 Yellowstone National Park WY 82190 USA
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- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife; 3860 Chelan Hwy N. Wenatchee WA 98801 USA
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- Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit; Natural Science Room 205, University of Montana; Missoula MT 59812 USA
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- Nez Perce Tribe Wolf Recovery Program; P.O. Box 1922 McCall ID 83638 USA
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- Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks; 490 North Meridian Road Kalispell MT 59901 USA
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Hays SJ, Rice MJ, Ortwine DF, Johnson G, Schwarz RD, Boyd DK, Copeland LF, Vartanian MG, Boxer PA. Substituted 2-benzothiazolamines as sodium flux inhibitors: quantitative structure-activity relationships and anticonvulsant activity. J Pharm Sci 1994; 83:1425-32. [PMID: 7884664 DOI: 10.1002/jps.2600831013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Thirty-two aryl-substituted 2-benzothiazolamines have been tested for their ability to modulate sodium flux in rat cortical slices. A QSAR analysis, applied to these derivatives, showed a trend toward increasing potency as sodium flux inhibitors with increasing lipophilicity, decreasing size, and increasing electron withdrawal of the benzo ring substituents. Additionally, 4- or 5-substitution of the benzo ring was found to decrease potency. The combination of increased lipophilicity, small size, and electron withdrawal severely limited which groups were tolerated on the benzo ring, thus suggesting that the optimal substitution patterns have been prepared within this series. Nine of these compounds were potent inhibitors of veratridine-induced sodium flux (NaFl). These nine compounds also proved to be anticonvulsant in the maximal electroshock (MES) assay. Fourteen additional 2-benzothiazolamines demonstrated activity in the MES screen, yet exhibited no activity in the NaFl assay. These derivatives may be interacting at the sodium channel in a manner not discernible by the flux paradigm, or they may be acting by an alternative mechanism in vivo.
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- S J Hays
- Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Division, Warner-Lambert Company, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
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Johnson MR, Boyd DK, Pletscher DH. Serologic investigations of canine parvovirus and canine distemper in relation to wolf (Canis lupus) pup mortalities. J Wildl Dis 1994; 30:270-3. [PMID: 8028116 DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-30.2.270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Twenty-one serum samples from 18 wolves (Canis lupus) were collected from 1985 to 1990 from northwestern Montana (USA) and southeastern British Columbia, Canada, and evaluated for antibodies to canine parvovirus (CPV), canine distemper (CD), infectious canine hepatitis, and Lyme disease; we found prevalences of 13 (65%) of 19, five (29%) of 17, seven (36%) of 19, and 0 of 20 wolves for these diseases, respectively. Pups died or disappeared in three of the eight packs studied. In these three packs, adult pack members had CPV titers > or = 1,600 or CD titers > or = 1,250. In packs that successfully raised pups, CPV and CD titers were low. We propose that CPV or CD may have caused some pup mortalities.
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- M R Johnson
- Yellowstone Center for Resources, National Park Service, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190
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Boyd DK, Ream RR, Pletscher DH, Fairchild MW. Prey Taken by Colonizing Wolves and Hunters in the Glacier National Park Area. J Wildl Manage 1994. [DOI: 10.2307/3809393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Johnson G, Boxer PA, Drummond JT, Boyd DK, Anderson RJ. Identification and evaluation of O-alkyl substituted hydroxamic acids as potent in vitro inhibitors of the hepatic glycine cleavage system and investigation of their action on in vivo central nervous system glycine concentration. Arzneimittelforschung 1989; 39:432-7. [PMID: 2751729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The identification and evaluation of an extensive series of O-alkyl substituted hydroxamic acids as potent in vitro inhibitors of the hepatic glycine cleavage system is described. An investigation of the action of selected examples on the in vitro brain glycine cleavage system and their influence on in vivo plasma and central nervous system glycine concentrations following systemic administration is also reported.
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- G Johnson
- Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical Research Division, Warner-Lambert Company, Department of Chemistry, Ann Arbor, MI
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Weishaar RE, Quade M, Schenden JA, Boyd DK, Evans DB. Studies aimed at elucidating the mechanism of action of CI-914, a new cardiotonic agent. Eur J Pharmacol 1985; 119:205-15. [PMID: 3004993 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(85)90297-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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CI-914 is a novel positive inotropic agent whose cardiotonic activity is not due to inhibition of Na+, K+-ATPase or to stimulation of cardiac beta-receptors. CI-914 also has no direct effect on sarcoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria or adenylate cyclase activity. CI-914 does, however, exert a potent inhibitory effect on cardiac phosphodiesterase activity. In evaluating the effect of this agent on the different molecular forms of phosphodiesterase present in cardiac muscle, CI-914 was found to selectively inhibit PDE III, which is a low Km, cAMP-specific form of the enzyme (IC50 = 6.1 microM). This inhibitory effect was found to be competitive with respect to the substrate. Papaverine and theophylline on the other hand were found to inhibit all three forms of phosphodiesterase present in cardiac muscle. The role of phosphodiesterase inhibition in mediating the positive inotropic response to CI-914 is supported by the finding that this agent: (i) significantly elevates cyclic AMP levels in ventricular tissue; (ii) shifts the normal concentration-response to the beta-receptor stimulant isoproterenol to the left: and (iii) restores contractility to K+-depolarized papillary muscles.
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