Natal Dispersal of the Spotted Owl in Southern California: Dispersal Profile of an Insular Population

The Condor ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 691 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Lahaye ◽  
R. J. Gutiérrez ◽  
Jeffrey R. Dunk
10.2307/5255 ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 775 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Lahaye ◽  
R.J. Gutierrez ◽  
H. Resit Akcakaya

The Condor ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 691-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Lahaye ◽  
R. J. Gutiérrez ◽  
Jeffrey R. Dunk

Abstract We studied the dispersal patterns of an insular population of California Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) in southern California from 1987–1998. The study area encompassed the entire San Bernardino Mountains and included a nested, 535-km2 study area which we used to evaluate the effects of study area size on dispersal parameter estimation. One hundred and twenty-nine of the 478 banded juvenile owls (27%) had entered the territorial population by 1998. Over half of the successful dispersers became territorial within one year. Additionally, all females and 95% of the males occupied territories within three years. Twenty-three sibling pairs and one set of triplets dispersed successfully. Sibling dispersal distances were not correlated. Sixty-seven males and 62 females dispersed 2.3–36.4 km (mean ± SD = 10.1 ± 7.6 km) and 0.4–35.7 km (mean ± SD = 11.7 ± 8.1 km), respectively. The difference between male and female mean dispersal distances was not significant. Dispersal distance and first-year survival were underestimated when using data collected within the smaller, nested study area. The presence of conspecifics may play a key role in the settling process. Seventy-eight percent of the dispersers settled in territories that were occupied by either pairs or single owls the previous year, 16% settled in vacant territories next to occupied sites, and 6% settled at sites of unknown occupancy. No owls settled at unoccupied sites that were not adjacent to occupied sites. Dispersión Natal de Strix occidentalis occidentalis: Descripción de la Dispersión de una Población Insular Resumen.  Estudiamos los patrones de dispersión de una población insular de lechuza moteada californiana (Strix occidentalis occidentalis) en el sur de California, desde 1987–1998. El área de estudio comprendió las montañas de San Bernardino e incluyó un sito de estudio de 535 km2 incluído en esta zona el cual usamos para evaluar el efecto del tamaño del área de estudio para la estimación de los parámetros de dispersión. Hasta 1998, 129 de las 478 lechuzas juveniles marcadas (27%) habían entrado a la población territorial. Más la mitad de los dispersores exitosos se hicieron territoriales al cabo de un año. Adicionalmente, todas las hembras y el 95% de los machos ocuparon territorios al cabo de tres años. Veintitrés pares de hermanos y un triplete se dispersaron exitosamente. La distancia de dispersión entre hermanos no se correlacionó. Sesenta y siete machos y 62 hembras se dispersaron 2.3–36.4 km (media = 10.1 ± 7.6 km) y 0.4–35.7 km (media = 11.7 ± 8.1 km), respectivamente. La diferencia entre la media de la distancia de dispersión entre hembras y machos no fue significativa. La distancia de dispersión y supervivencia del primer año fueron subestimadas cuando se utilizaron los datos colectados en la sub-área de estudio de menor tamaño. La presencia de conespecíficos puede representar un factor clave en el proceso de asentamiento. Setenta y ocho por ciento de los dispersores se asentaron en territorios que habían estado ocupados por parejas o lechuzas no emparejadas el año anterior, el 16% en territorios no ocupados próximos a sitios ocupados, y el 6% se asentó en sitios con ocupación desconocida. Ninguna lechuza se asentó en sitios desocupados que no estuvieran adyacentes a un sitio ocupado.


1996 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 683-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D Proctor ◽  
Stephanie Pincetl

Recent efforts to protect biodiversity in the United States often reproduce the literal and figurative divisions of space that have originally endangered target species. Nature as redefined by these efforts is as much a social construction as it is some biophysical entity under siege by humans, We focus on the categorical and spatial distinctions between landscapes prioritized for protection and landscapes given less priority or ignored altogether. These distinctions, we wish to demonstrate, reflect pragmatic considerations of habitat quality and political expediency, but they also are enmeshed in dualist nature–culture ideologies that serve to legitimate and ultimately to reproduce the different practices that occur on these landscapes. We focus on protection of spotted owl habitat, one of the most important cases of biodiversity conservation in the United States since the passage of the Endangered Species Act. We consider recent spotted owl protection efforts in the Pacific Northwest and southern California. In the Pacific Northwest, spotted owl protection plans on public forests have been cited as justification for casing habitat protection on private lands, in spite of the major historical biodiversity role of these forestlands. In California, spotted owl policy deliberations for the urbanized forests of southern California have lagged far behind those in the Sierra Nevada, even though owl populations have declined faster in southern California than anywhere else in the state. These cases are indicative of a nature epistemologically understood and ontologically constructed as separate from culture, of what Latour would call an act of purification set up against the undeniably hybrid character of nature–cultures in late modernity. It is precisely this recognition of nature–culture intertwining, however, that will prove central to the creation of sustaining habitats for nonhuman life.


1981 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-151
Author(s):  
Lillian Glass ◽  
Sharon R. Garber ◽  
T. Michael Speidel ◽  
Gerald M. Siegel ◽  
Edward Miller

An omission in the Table of Contents, December JSHR, has occurred. Lillian Glass, Ph.D., at the University of Southern California School of Medicine and School of Dentistry, was a co-author of the article "The Effects of Presentation on Noise and Dental Appliances on Speech" along with Sharon R. Garber, T. Michael Speidel, Gerald M. Siegel, and Edward Miller of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A215-A216
Author(s):  
C CONTEAS ◽  
J PRUTHI ◽  
R BURCHETTE

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