COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF POSSIBLE FUTURES FOR TWO FLOCKS OF WHOOPING CRANES

• Main Authors: Mirande, Claire M., Cannon, John R., Agzigian, Kimberly, Bogart, Rozanne E., Christiansen, Sarah, Dubow, Jason, Katya Fernandez, A., Howarth, Dustin K., Jones, Claudia, Munson, Katherine G., Pandya, Sonal I., Sedaghatkish, Gina, Skerl, Kevin L., Stenquist, Susan A., Wheeler, Jennifer
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1997
• Subjects: computer; Grus americana; population viability analysis; whooping crane; Animal Sciences; Behavior and Ethology; Biodiversity; Ornithology; Population Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Wood Buffalo
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nacwgproc/223; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/nacwgproc/article/1223/viewcontent/Mirande___Computer.pdf

We conducted computer simulations using the program VORTEX (version 7) to project population sizes, growth rates, genetic diversity, and probabilities of extinction over the next 100 years for 2 flocks of whooping cranes (Grus americana), the Aransas/Wood Buffalo population and the experimental Flor...