Improving Monitoring and Habitat Assessment for Gopher Frog (Rana [Lithobates] capito) Management in Georgia. Hunt, J. D. Master's thesis, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 2019. abstract bibtex The Gopher Frog (Rana [Lithobates] capito) is a species of greatest conservation need in Georgia. Monitoring is needed to determine population status and evaluate management actions, but monitoring efforts are limited by low detectability. I evaluated effectiveness of an active infrared camera system to detect juvenile Gopher Frogs, and used radio-telemetry data to parameterize a random walk model to estimate the probability that juvenile Gopher Frogs may be dispersing beyond the boundaries of the Sandhills Wildlife Management Area (SWMA), which is a key site for Gopher Frog conservation in Georgia. Camera detection rates of individual frogs were greater than 90% indicating that the camera system is efficient at monitoring anurans. Juvenile survival was low at SWMA due to predation. Though only a single frog was tracked beyond the WMA boundary, the random walk model predicted a 19.6% chance that a juvenile Gopher Frog may disperse off the WMA property.
@mastersthesis{hunt_improving_2019,
address = {Athens, Georgia},
title = {Improving {Monitoring} and {Habitat} {Assessment} for {Gopher} {Frog} ({Rana} [{Lithobates}] capito) {Management} in {Georgia}},
abstract = {The Gopher Frog (Rana [Lithobates] capito) is a species of greatest conservation need in Georgia. Monitoring is needed to determine population status and evaluate management actions, but monitoring efforts are limited by low detectability. I evaluated effectiveness of an active infrared camera system to detect juvenile Gopher Frogs, and used radio-telemetry data to parameterize a random walk model to estimate the probability that juvenile Gopher Frogs may be dispersing beyond the boundaries of the Sandhills Wildlife Management Area (SWMA), which is a key site for Gopher Frog conservation in Georgia. Camera detection rates of individual frogs were greater than 90\% indicating that the camera system is efficient at monitoring anurans. Juvenile survival was low at SWMA due to predation. Though only a single frog was tracked beyond the WMA boundary, the random walk model predicted a 19.6\% chance that a juvenile Gopher Frog may disperse off the WMA property.},
language = {en},
school = {University of Georgia},
author = {Hunt, James Daniel},
year = {2019},
}
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