Time to removal of fetal materials by scavengers in SW Montana 2017 - 2018
Description
We investigated the time to removal of bovine fetal materials, meant to simulate elk abortion materials, by scavengers in southwest Montana at 233 sites in February – June 2017 and 2018. Scavengers are likely to reduce the transmission risk of brucellosis, a bacterial disease that can lead to reproductive failure in infected elk, by consuming and removing infectious fetal materials from the landscape. Sites were monitored using remote, motion-detecting cameras until the fetal materials were consumed or removed by scavengers. Here we provide: 1) the time to removal of fetal materials by scavengers, 2) scavenger and ungulate activity at the remote camera sites, and 3) descriptions of the 13 study locations in southwest Montana.
Resources
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QVWB3D |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6065fb52d34eff14434396d0.xml |
Tags
- montana
- ecology
- park
- greater-yellowstone-ecosystem
- beaverhead-deerlodge-national-forest
- gallatin
- biota
- brucellosis
- usgs-6065fb52d34eff14434396d0
- scavengers
- video-monitoring
- custer-gallatin-national-forest
- wildlife-disease
- madison