Data from: Population responses of common ravens to reintroduced gray wolves ...

• Main Authors: Walker, Lauren E., Marzluff, John M., Metz, Matthew C., Wirsing, Aaron J., Moskal, L. Monika, Stahler, Daniel R., Smith, Douglas W.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2018
• Subjects: Corvus corax; scavenger; Canis lupus; gray wolf; common raven
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.j3qt5pf; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.j3qt5pf

1. Top predators have cascading effects throughout the food web but their impacts on scavenger abundance are largely unknown. Gray wolves (Canis lupus) provide carrion to a suite of scavenger species, including the common raven (Corvus corax). Ravens are wide-ranging and intelligent omnivores that commonly take advantage of anthropogenic food resources. In areas where they overlap with wolves, however, ravens are numerous and ubiquitous scavengers of wolf-acquired carrion. 2. We aimed to determine whether subsidies provided through wolves are a limiting factor for raven populations in general and how the wolf reintroduction to Yellowstone National Park in 1995-1997 affected raven population abundance and distribution on the Yellowstone’s Northern Range specifically. 3. We counted ravens throughout Yellowstone’s Northern Range in March from 2009 to 2017 in both human-use areas and wolf habitat. We then used statistics related to the local wolf population and the winter weather conditions to model raven ... : Raven, wolf, and weather variables, YNP 2009-2017Raven and wolf count data for 2009 through 2017 were collected in the field. Biomass estimates were made from field observations. Weather variables were collected from the National Climatic Data Center.Dryad Data.xlsx ...