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Western Spadefoot Habitat Selection Based on Radio Telemetry in Orange County, California 2019

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2018-12-06
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2019-12-11

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Rochester, C.J., Halstead, B.J., Baumberger, K.L., Backlin, A.R., Kleeman, P.M., Wong, M.N., Gallegos, E.A., Rose, J.P., and Fisher, R.N., 2021, Western spadefoot habitat selection based on radio telemetry in Orange County, California 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P912W368.

Summary

We conducted a radio telemetry study of adult western spadefoots (Spea hammondii) at 2 sites in southern California to characterize their survival, behavior, and movements from breeding through aestivation to inform conservation and management for the species. These data support the following publication: Halstead, B.J., Baumberger, K.L., Backlin, A.R., Kleeman, P.M., Wong, M.N., Gallegos, E.A., Rose, J.P., and Fisher, R.N., 2021. Conservation implications of spatiotemporal variation in the terrestrial ecology of an ephemeral pool-breeding amphibian. The Journal of Wildlife Management.

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003_spha_move_data.csv 70.09 KB text/csv
004_spha_mhs_diffs.csv 46.47 KB text/csv
001_spha_ind_data.csv 2.06 KB text/csv
002_spha_spatial_data.csv 208.57 KB text/csv

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Western spadefoots are of conservation concern throughout their range because of habitat loss, but little is known about the activity patterns and ecology of their terrestrial life stage.

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