American alligator demographic and harvest data from Georgetown County, South Carolina, 1979–2017

The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) is a species of ecological and economic importance in the southeastern United States. Within South Carolina, alligators are subject to private and public harvest programs, as well as nuisance removal. These management activities can have different impacts across alligator size classes that may not be apparent through widely-used monitoring techniques such as nightlight surveys. We synthesized multiple datasets within an integrated population model (IPM) to estimate size class-specific survival and abundance estimates, that would not be estimable through separate, non-integrated modeling frameworks. The IPM framework included a multistate mark-recapture-recovery...

Tags: Alligator mississippiensis, Bayesian, Ecology, Georgetown, Pee Dee, All tags... Santee, South Atlantic, South Carolina, South Carolina Coastal, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Waccamaw, Wildlife Biology, biota, crocodilian, ecology, harvest, hierarchical model, integrated population model, population dynamics, state uncertainty, Fewer tags