Effect of compensatory immigration on the genetic structure of coyotes
Abstract
ABSTRACT Despite efforts to reduce their effects on livestock and native ungulates within the southeastern United States, coyotes ( Canis latrans ) can recover from control programs. It is unknown how coyotes compensate for high mortality following trapping, so there is great interest to identify methods that can provide insight into coyote response to intensive trapping. To investigate if population genetic tools can decipher how coyotes recover from intensive trapping, we combined an empirical test of how genetic differentiation, diversity, and familial structure changed following trapping on the Savannah River Site (SRS), South Carolina, USA, with spatially explicit genetic simulations. The pre‐ and post‐trapping periods had similar genetic diversities and were not genetically differentiated as expected by either compensatory reproduction or immigration from a single genetic source. The post‐trapping coyote populations exhibited weaker signatures of philopatry with little evidence for increased dispersal distances of young coyotes, which suggests immigration caused a decrease in familial structure. Our simulations indicated that spatial autocorrelation coefficients and observed heterozygosities change as immigration increases, whereas population differentiation, allelic richness, and displacement distances do not. Collectively, our results suggest that coyotes recover from intensive trapping via reproduction and immigration, which likely makes preventing compensation difficult. Monitoringmore »
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States); Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River Ecology Lab. (SREL)
- USDA Forest Service, New Ellenton, SC (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River Ecology Lab. (SREL)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1813751
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1399793
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC09-07SR22506; AI09-00SR22188; DE‐FC09‐07SR22506
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of Wildlife Management
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 81; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0022-541X
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; coyote; Canis latrans; compensatory immigration; compensatory reproduction trapping; spatial autocorrelation; South Carolina
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Kierepka, Elizabeth M., Kilgo, John C., and Rhodes, Jr., Olin E. Effect of compensatory immigration on the genetic structure of coyotes. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21320.
Kierepka, Elizabeth M., Kilgo, John C., & Rhodes, Jr., Olin E. Effect of compensatory immigration on the genetic structure of coyotes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21320
Kierepka, Elizabeth M., Kilgo, John C., and Rhodes, Jr., Olin E. Fri .
"Effect of compensatory immigration on the genetic structure of coyotes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21320. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1813751.
@article{osti_1813751,
title = {Effect of compensatory immigration on the genetic structure of coyotes},
author = {Kierepka, Elizabeth M. and Kilgo, John C. and Rhodes, Jr., Olin E.},
abstractNote = {ABSTRACT Despite efforts to reduce their effects on livestock and native ungulates within the southeastern United States, coyotes ( Canis latrans ) can recover from control programs. It is unknown how coyotes compensate for high mortality following trapping, so there is great interest to identify methods that can provide insight into coyote response to intensive trapping. To investigate if population genetic tools can decipher how coyotes recover from intensive trapping, we combined an empirical test of how genetic differentiation, diversity, and familial structure changed following trapping on the Savannah River Site (SRS), South Carolina, USA, with spatially explicit genetic simulations. The pre‐ and post‐trapping periods had similar genetic diversities and were not genetically differentiated as expected by either compensatory reproduction or immigration from a single genetic source. The post‐trapping coyote populations exhibited weaker signatures of philopatry with little evidence for increased dispersal distances of young coyotes, which suggests immigration caused a decrease in familial structure. Our simulations indicated that spatial autocorrelation coefficients and observed heterozygosities change as immigration increases, whereas population differentiation, allelic richness, and displacement distances do not. Collectively, our results suggest that coyotes recover from intensive trapping via reproduction and immigration, which likely makes preventing compensation difficult. Monitoring post‐trapping populations may offer more insight into maximizing the effectiveness of control efforts, and based on our simulations, population genetics can provide critical information about the amount of compensatory immigration following trapping. © 2017 The Wildlife Society.},
doi = {10.1002/jwmg.21320},
journal = {Journal of Wildlife Management},
number = 8,
volume = 81,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Fri Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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