Data from: Non-invasive genetic monitoring involving citizen science enables reconstruction of current pack dynamics in a re-establishing wolf population ...
Background: Carnivores are re-establishing in many human-populated areas, where their presence is often contentious. Reaching consensus over management decisions is often hampered by a dispute about the size of the local carnivore population. Understanding the reproductive dynamics and individual mo...
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| Language: | English |
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Dryad
2017
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76tr6 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.76tr6 |
| Summary: | Background: Carnivores are re-establishing in many human-populated areas, where their presence is often contentious. Reaching consensus over management decisions is often hampered by a dispute about the size of the local carnivore population. Understanding the reproductive dynamics and individual movements of the carnivores can provide support for management decisions, but individual-level information can be difficult to obtain from elusive, wide-ranging species. Non-invasive genetic sampling can yield such information, but makes subsequent reconstruction of population history challenging due to incomplete population coverage and error-prone data. Here, we combine a collaborative, volunteer-based sampling scheme with Bayesian pedigree reconstruction to describe the pack dynamics of an establishing grey wolf (Canis lupus) population in south-west Finland, where wolf breeding was recorded in 2006 for the first time in over a century. Results: Using DNA extracted mainly from faeces collected since 2008, we ... : Wolf monitoring genotype and phenotype dataThis file contains the consensus multi-locus genotypes of all individual wolves identified and fitted in the pedigree, along with phenotypic data used to inform the pedigree.WolfMonitoring_GenAndPhenData.csv ... |
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