Lesser prairie-chicken dispersal after translocation: Implications for restoration and population connectivity.

ABSTRACT: Conservation translocations are frequently inhibited by extensive dispersal after release, which can expose animals to dispersal-related mortality or Allee effects due to a lack of nearby conspecifics. However, translocation-induced dispersals also provide opportunities to study how animals move across a novel landscape, and how their movements are influenced by landscape configuration and anthropogenic features. Translocation among populations is considered a potential conservation strategy for lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). We determined the influence of release area on dispersal frequency by translocated lesser prairie-chickens and measured how lesser prairie-chickens move through grassland landscapes through avoidance of anthropogenic features during their

SUBMITTER: Berigan LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10828740 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature