Fogo Island Long-Term Individual-Based Monitoring Program Remote Monitoring Tools

福戈岛长期个人监测计划远程监测工具

• 批准号: RTI-2020-00211
• 负责人: VanderWal, Eric
• 金额: $ 6.85万
• 依托单位: Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=692499
• 关键词: Fogo; Island; Long; Term; Individual

Research activities enabled: We propose an integrative approach to study caribou socioecology, an under-studied axis of caribou ecology. Social behaviours are emerging as important indicators of population health, with implications for reproductive success and survival. We spotlight the cause and consequence in variability of social and spatial ecology, and link these behavioural and ecological processes to zoogeochemical ecosystem processes. These new GPS devices are imperative to provide a finer resolution of data from which we will be able to test the how resources described by elements and their ratios (carbon:nitrogen), affect animal social dynamics, space use, and movement, which in turn affect the transfer of carbon and nitrogen throughout the ecosystem. Our aim is to further the fundamental ecology, while developing applications to help inform long-term viability of caribou populations.******Equipment Requested: We are requesting 20 GPS enabled Iridium uplink biotelemetry collars for caribou that will be fit onto adult females. We are also requesting 40 VHF collars for caribou calves to fit calves of collared mothers with monitoring devices. It is possible that the Fogo Island Caribou Project is the only existing caribou research program that can economically, and reliably fit adult-calf pairs of caribou with biotelemetry collars.******Why and whom the activities are important: The Fogo Island Caribou Program currently supports elements of 5 PhD student projects for students in Canada and the United States. The programme has historically provided training opportunities for 6 MSc students and 4 international MSc research programs. The program trains highly qualified personnel that are academic track and intend to work in wildlife agencies. The annual field program typically trains 10 HQP in caribou handling and ecology. The program provides a safe and inclusive space to learn fundamental and applied ecology and get hands on experience working with and observing caribou in the field.******Anticipated outcome: Fundamental: We anticipate to further disentangle the correlated relationship between animal social dynamics, space use, and movement, while modeling their consequences to ecosystem processes, i.e., carbon and nitrogen cycles. Applied: We will continue to link behavioural and ecosystem processes to tangible measures of population viability, i.e., reproductive success and survival, which could be used to augment management and conservation plans for caribou.******Benefit to Canada: Caribou populations are in decline globally, including in Canada. Typically, opportunities to study the fine-scale behaviour and ecology of caribou are limited due to their remote distribution. The Fogo Island Caribou Program provides an opportunity to integrate remotely sensed notions about caribou ecology, with fine-scale ethological inferences and link these to conservation-relevant measures of individual fitness and population dynamics.**

研究活动：我们提出了一种综合的方法来研究北美驯鹿社会生态学，这是北美驯鹿生态学的一个研究不足的轴。社会行为正在成为人口健康的重要指标，对生殖成功和生存产生影响。我们关注社会和空间生态变化的原因和后果，并将这些行为和生态过程与动物地球化学生态系统过程联系起来。这些新的GPS设备对于提供更精细的数据分辨率至关重要，我们将能够从这些数据中测试元素及其比例（碳：氮）描述的资源如何影响动物的社会动态、空间利用和运动，进而影响整个生态系统中碳和氮的转移。我们的目标是促进基本生态，同时开发应用程序，以帮助了解北美驯鹿种群的长期生存能力。******设备请求：我们正在请求20个GPS启用铱星上行生物遥测项圈，用于驯鹿，将适合成年雌性。我们还要求40个甚高频项圈为驯鹿幼崽，以适应与监测装置有项圈的母亲的小牛。有可能，福戈岛驯鹿项目是现有的唯一一个能够经济可靠地为成年驯鹿和小牛配对戴上生物遥测项圈的驯鹿研究项目。******为什么这些活动很重要，谁很重要：福戈岛驯鹿项目目前为加拿大和美国的学生提供5个博士生项目的部分支持。该项目历史上为6名硕士学生和4个国际硕士研究项目提供了培训机会。该项目培养具有学术背景并打算在野生动物机构工作的高素质人才。每年的实地项目通常会对10名HQP进行驯鹿处理和生态方面的培训。该项目为学习基础生态学和应用生态学提供了一个安全和包容的空间，并获得了在野外与北美驯鹿一起工作和观察的经验。******预期结果：基本：我们期望进一步解开动物社会动态，空间利用和运动之间的相关关系，同时模拟它们对生态系统过程的影响，即碳和氮循环。应用：我们将继续将行为和生态系统过程与种群生存能力的有形措施联系起来，即繁殖成功和生存，这可以用来加强驯鹿的管理和保护计划。******对加拿大的好处：驯鹿的数量在全球范围内都在下降，包括在加拿大。通常，由于驯鹿分布偏远，研究它们的精细行为和生态的机会有限。福戈岛驯鹿项目提供了一个机会，将驯鹿生态的遥感概念与精细尺度的行为学推断结合起来，并将这些与个体适应性和种群动态的保护相关措施联系起来