Elepaio nest monitoring data in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from 2015-2017

Description

We evaluated the nesting response of Hawai‘i ‘Elepaio (Chasiempis sandwichensis; Monarchidae), a generalist insectivore, to the removal of black rats using rodenticide in a before-after-control-impact study in high and low, mesic montane habitat recovering from long-term damage from introduced ungulates and weeds. We monitored nesting activity during 2015–2016 before applying diphacinone bait in 2017 to remove rats from two 700 x 700-m treatment plots that were paired with two non-treatment plots. We continued monitoring through July 2017. This data set includes a summarized account of Elepaio nests during the 2015, 2016, and 2017 breeding seasons. There is a unique identifier for each nest ('NestID '), along with information on the site, fate (0=fledged, 1=failed), elevation and whether the nest was on a site treated for black rat removal ('impact'), or a non-treated ('control') plot. Also listed for each entry is the day of the year the nest was found, 'DayFound'; the day it was last known to be active, 'DayLastPresent'; the day it was last checked, 'DayLastChecked', and the age of the nest when found, 'AgeFound'.

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Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5c17f747e4b006c4f8557704.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P93TOM58

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  • hawaii-volcanoes-national-park
  • predator-control
  • invasive-rat
  • hawaii
  • baci
  • usgs-5c17f747e4b006c4f8557704
  • natural-resource-management
  • nest-success
  • invasive-species
  • hawaii-county-2

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