Climate-induced variation in vital rates of an unharvested large-herbivore population

By Robert A. Garrott, L. Eberhardt, P. J. White, Jay J. Rotella. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology

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Citations in the corpus

• Selection of Northern Yellowstone Elk by Gray Wolves and Hunters (2006, background): “Garrott et al. (2003) estimated adult female survival of 0.97 for the Madison-Firehole herd in Yellowstone.”
• Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15 years after wolf reintroduction (2012, methodology): “In order to analyze trends in snowpacks, we obtained the accumulated daily snow-water equivalent data by year [SWEacc, see Garrott et al. (2003) for methods] from two National Resources Conservation Service SNOTEL sites nearest the northern range (Northeast Entrance Site and Canyon Site).”
• Impact of Spatial and Temporal Variation in Calf Survival on the Growth of Elk Populations (2007, unknown): “In large herbivores, adult survival is consistently identified as the vital rate with the highest elasticity; in contrast, ) is relatively insensitive to calf survival (Escos et al. 1994; Walsh et al. 1995; Gaillard et al. 1998, 2000; Eberhardt 2002; Garrott et al. 2003).”
• Extreme climatic events in relation to global change and their impact on life histories (2011, background): “In elk Cervus virginianus populations, the severity of snow-pack conditions only had effects on adult survival during the most extreme winter, while it had a pronounced effect on recruitment, the most severe conditions resulting in virtual elimination of a juvenile cohort (Garrott et al., 2003).”
• Elk Calf Survival and Mortality Following Wolf Restoration to Yellowstone National Park (2008, background): “The winters of 2001–2005 were relatively mild, with the accumulated daily value of snow water equivalent (Garrott et al. 2003) estimated at the Tower Falls weather station (WY9025)”
• Relative influence of human harvest, carnivores, and weather on adult female elk survival across western North America (2013, background): “We hypothesized that survival could also be influenced by weather via winter severity (cf. Garrott et al. 2003) and/or summer habitat productivity (cf. Cook et al. 2004).”