Initial effects of reintroduced wolves Canis lupus on bighorn sheep Ovis canadensis dynamics in Yellowstone National Park

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-146

  White, Patrick J ^a   Lemke, Thomas O ^b   Tyers, Daniel B ^c   Fuller, Julie A ^d  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

^c US Forest Service Custer Gallatin National Forest   (United States)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Canis lupus; Ovis canadensis; Population dynamics; Recruitment; Survival; Wolves; Yellowstone

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS;

EID: 43049087759     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2008)14[138:IEORWC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Buechner, H.K. 1960: The bighorn sheep in the United States, its past, present, and future. - Wildlife Monographs 4: 1-174.
2. Breitenmoser, U., Breitenmoser-Würsten, C., Carbyn, L.N. & Funk, S.M. 2001: Assessment of carnivore reintroductions. In: Gittleman, J.L., Funk, S.M., Macdonald, D. & Wayne, R.K. (Eds.); Carnivore Conservation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 241-281.
3. Burnham, K.P. & Anderson, D.R. 1998: Model selection and inference: a practical information-theoretical approach. - Springer-Verlag, New York, USA, 488 pp.
4. Carroll, C., Phillips, M.K., Schumaker, N.H. & Smith, D.W. 2003: Impacts of landscape change on wolf restoration success: planning a reintroduction program based on static and dynamic spatial models. - Conservation Biology 17:536-548.
5. Coughenour, M.B. & Singer, F.J. 1996: Elk population processes in Yellowstone National Park under the policy of natural regulation. - Ecological Applications 6: 573-583.
6. Creel, S., Winnie, J., Jr., Maxwell, B., Hamlin, K. & Creel, M. 2005: Elk alter habitat selection as an antipredator response to wolves. - Ecology 86: 3387-3397.
7. Eberhardt, L.E., Eberhardt, L.L., Tiller, B.L. & Cadwell, L.L. 1996: Growth of an isolated elk population. - Journal of Wildlife Management 60: 369-373.
8. Eberhardt, L.L. 1985: Assessing the dynamics of wild populations. - Journal of Wildlife Management 49: 997-1012.
9. Eberhardt, L.L. 1987: Population projections from simple models. - Journal of Applied Ecology 24: 103-118.
10. Eberhardt, L.L., Majorowicz, A.K. & Wilcox, J.A. 1982: Apparent rates of increase for two feral horse herds. - Journal of Wildlife Management 46: 367-374.
11. Farnes, P., Heydon, C. & Hansen, K. 1999: Snow-pack distribution across Yellowstone National Park. - Final report CA1268-1-9014, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA, 58 pp.
12. Gaillard, J-M., Delorme, D., Boutin, J-M., Van Laere, G., Boisaubert, B. & Pradel, R. 1993: Roe deer survival patterns: a comparative analysis of contrasting populations. - Journal of Animal Ecology 62: 778-791.
13. Garrott, R.A., Eberhardt, L.L., White, P.J. & Rotella, J. 2003: Climate-induced variation in vital rates of an unharvested large-herbivore population. - Canadian Journal of Zoology 81: 33-45.
14. Garrott, R.A., Gude, J.A., Bergman, E.J., Gower, C., White, P.J. & Hamlin, K.L. 2006: Generalizing wolf effects across the greater Yellowstone area: a cautionary note. - Wildlife Society Bulletin 33: 1245-1255.
15. Garrott, R.A. & Taylor, L. 1990: Dynamics of a feral horse population in Montana. - Journal of Wildlife Management 54: 603-612.
16. Hebblewhite, M., White, C.A., Nietveit, C.G., McKenzie, J.A., Hurd, T.E., Fryxell, J.M., Bayley, S.E. & Paquet, P.C. 2005: Human activity mediates a trophic cascade caused by wolves. - Ecology 86: 2135-2144.
17. Houston, D.B. 1982: The northern Yellowstone elk: ecology and management. - MacMillan, New York, USA, 474 pp.
18. Jacobson, A.R., Provenzale, A., von Hardenberg, A., Bassano, B. & Festa-Bianchet, M. 2004: Climate forcing and density dependence in a mountain ungulate population. - Ecology 85: 1598-1610.
19. Jorgenson, J.T., Festa-Bianchet, M., Gaillard, J-M. & Wishart, W.D. 1997: Effects of age, sex, disease, and density on survival of bighorn sheep. - Ecology 78: 1019-1032.
20. Keating, K.A. 1982: Population ecology of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep in the upper Yellowstone River drainage, Montana/Wyoming. - M.Sc. thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA., 79 pp.
21. Legg, K.L. 1996: Movements and habitat use of bighorn sheep along the upper Yellowstone river valley. - M.Sc. thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA, 73 pp.
22. Lemke, T.O. 1997: Spring 1997 wildlife carcass count. - Northern Yellowstone Cooperative Wildlife Working Group, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Bozeman, Montana, USA, 3 pp.
23. Lemke, T.O. 2005a: Northern Yellowstone cooperative bighorn sheep survey 2005. - Northern Yellowstone Cooperative Wildlife Working Group, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Bozeman, Montana, USA, 14 pp.
24. Lemke, T.O. 2005b: Northern Yellowstone cooperative spring mule deer survey 2005. - Northern Yellowstone Cooperative Wildlife Working Group, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Bozeman, Montana, USA, 17 pp.
25. Lemke, T.O, Mack, J.A. & Houston, D.B. 1998: Winter range expansion by the northern Yellowstone elk herd. - Intermountain Journal of Sciences 4: 1-9.
26. Loison, A., Gaillard, J-M. & Houssin, H. 1994: New insight on survivorship of female chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) from marked individuals. - Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 591-597.
27. Mao, J.S., Boyce, M.S., Smith, D.S., Singer, F.J., Vales, D.J., Vore, J.M. & Merrill, E.H. 2005: Habitat selection by elk before and after wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park. - Journal of Wildlife Management 69: 1691-1707.
28. Meagher, M., Quinn, W.J. & Stackhouse, L. 1992: Chlamydial-caused infectious keratoconjunctivitis in bighorn sheep of Yellowstone National Park. - Journal of Wildlife Disease 28: 171-176.
29. Ostovar, K. 1998: Impacts of human activity on bighorn sheep in Yellowstone National Park. - M.Sc. thesis, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, USA, 77 pp.
30. Ostovar, K. & Irby, L.R. 1998: High predator densities in Yellowstone National Park may limit recovery of bighorn sheep populations from the 1981 Chlamydial-caused die off. - Biennial Symposium of the Wild Sheep and Goat Council 11: 96-103.
31. Palmer, W.C. 1968: Keeping track of crop moisture conditions, nationwide: the new crop moisture index. - Weatherwise 21: 156-161.
32. R Development Core Team 2004: R: a language and environment for statistical computing. - R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 3-900051-00-3. Available at: http://www.R-project.org.
33. Sibly, R.M. & Smith, R.H. 1998: Identifying key factors using 1 contribution analysis. - Journal of Animal Ecology 67: 17-24.
34. Singer, F.J. & Norland, J.E. 1994: Niche relationships within a guild of ungulate species in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, following release from artificial controls. - Canadian Journal of Zoology 72: 1383-1394.
35. Skogland, T. 1985: The effects of density-dependent resource limitations on the demography of wild reindeer. - Journal of Animal Ecology 54: 350-374.
36. Smith, D.W. 2005: Ten years of Yellowstone wolves. - Yellowstone Science 13: 7-33.
37. Smith, D.W., Drummer, T.D., Murphy, K.M., Guernsey, D.S. & Evans, S.B. 2004: Winter prey selection and estimation of wolf kill rates in Yellowstone National Park, 1995-2000. - Journal of Wildlife Management 68: 153-166.
38. Smith, D.W., Peterson, R.O. & Houston, D.B. 2003: Yellowstone after wolves. - BioScience 53: 330-340.
39. Stevens, D.R. & Goodson, N.J. 1993: Assessing effects of removals for transplanting on a high-elevation bighorn sheep population. - Conservation Biology 7: 908-915.
40. Taper, M.L. & Gogan, P.J.P. 2002: The northern Yellowstone elk: density dependence and climatic conditions. - Journal of Wildlife Management 66: 106-122.
41. Toigo, C., Gaillard, J-M. & Michallet, J. 1997: Adult survival of the sexually dimorphic Alpine ibex (Capra ibex ibex). - Canadian Journal of Zoology 75: 75-79.
42. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Nez Perce Tribe, National Park Service, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Idaho Fish and Game & U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services 2005: Rocky mountain wolf recovery 2004 annual report. - In: Boyd, D. (Ed.); U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Ecological Services, Helena, Montana, USA, 77 pp.
43. White, G.C. & Burnham, K.P. 1999: Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals. - Bird Study 46: 120-138.
44. White, P.J. & Garrott, R.A. 2005: Northern Yellowstone elk after wolf restoration. - Wildlife Society Bulletin 33: 942-955.
45. Wishart, W., MacCallum, B. & Jorgenson, J. 1998: Lessons learned from rates of increase in bighorn herds. - Biennial Symposium of the Wild Sheep and Goat Council 11: 126-132.