Demography of the Appalachian Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius putorius)

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dc.contributor.authorButler, Andrew R.en
dc.contributor.authorEdelman, Andrew J.en
dc.contributor.authorEng, Robin Y. Y.en
dc.contributor.authorHarris, Stephen N.en
dc.contributor.authorOlfenbuttel, Colleenen
dc.contributor.authorThorne, Emily D.en
dc.contributor.authorFord, W. Marken
dc.contributor.authorJachowski, David S.en
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-22T17:20:05Zen
dc.date.available2022-09-22T17:20:05Zen
dc.date.issued2021-08en
dc.description.abstractSpilogale putorius (Eastern Spotted Skunk) is a small, secretive carnivore that has substantially declined throughout the eastern United States since the mid-1900s. To better understand the current status of Eastern Spotted Skunks, we studied survival and reproduction of the S. p. putorius (Appalachian Spotted Skunk) subspecies across 4 states in the central and southern Appalachian Mountains from 2014 to 2020. Using encounter histories from 99 radio-collared Appalachian Spotted Skunks in a Kaplan-Meier known-fate survival analysis, we calculated a mean annual adult survival rate of 0.58. We did not find support for this survival rate varying by sex, predator cover (canopy cover and topographic ruggedness), or climate. Compared to estimates of survival from previous research, our data suggest that Appalachian Spotted Skunk survival is intermediate to the S. p. interrupta (Plains Spotted Skunk) and S. p. ambarvalis (Florida Spotted Skunk) subspecies of Eastern Spotted Skunk. We located 11 Appalachian Spotted Skunk natal dens and estimated mean litter size to be 2.8 juveniles per female. We used a Lefkovitch matrix to identify the most important demographic rates and found that adult survivorship had the largest impact on the population growth rate. These results provide important demographic information for future Eastern Spotted Skunk population viability analyses and can serve as a baseline for future comparative assessments of the effects of management interventions on the species.en
dc.description.adminPublic domain – authored by a U.S. government employeeen
dc.description.notesAlabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Department of Biology at the University of West Georgia; Friends of the Talladega National Forest; USDA Forest Service(United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)United States Forest Service); US Fish and Wildlife Service(US Fish & Wildlife Service); South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Grant from the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources; Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Grant from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commissionen
dc.description.sponsorshipAlabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Department of Biology at the University of West Georgia; Friends of the Talladega National Forest; USDA Forest Service; US Fish and Wildlife Service; South Carolina Department of Natural Resources; Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Grant from the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources [2013-14307]; Pittman-Robertson Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Grant from the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commissionen
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1656/058.020.0sp1110en
dc.identifier.eissn1938-5412en
dc.identifier.issn1528-7092en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/111968en
dc.identifier.volume20en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEagle Hill Instituteen
dc.rightsPublic Domain (U.S.)en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/en
dc.subjectcause-specific mortalityen
dc.subjectden-site selectionen
dc.subjectouachita mountainsen
dc.subjectpopulationen
dc.subjectreproductionen
dc.subjectcarnivoreen
dc.subjectlocationen
dc.subjectdynamicsen
dc.subjecttrackingen
dc.subjectsurvivalen
dc.titleDemography of the Appalachian Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius putorius)en
dc.title.serialSoutheastern Naturalisten
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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