Service Description: Migration corridor, stopover, and winter range locations for mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) developed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) for the Pacific herd in El Dorado and Placer counties, California. Corridors, stopovers, and winter ranges were developed in Migration Mapper with Brownian Bridge Movement Models using GPS locations from collared deer. Migration corridors represent movement routes used by deer between winter and summer range habitats. Moderate and high use corridors were used by greater than or equal to 10 percent and greater than or equal to 20 percent of the animals sampled, respectively. Migration stopovers and winter range polygons also represent high use areas.
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Description: The project leads for the collection of these data were Shelly Blair (CDFW) and Jerrod Merrell (University of Nevada Reno). Mule deer (52 adult females) from the Pacific herd were captured and equipped with store-onboard GPS collars (Vectronic Plus Vertex Survey Iridium), transmitting data from 2015-2020. Pacific mule deer are found on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California and exhibit largely traditional seasonal migration strategies. This population migrates from a multitude of lower elevation areas in the foothills of El Dorado National Forest in winter westward into higher elevation summer ranges. Migrants vary in their movements from shorter (6 km) to longer (41 km) distances.GPS locations were fixed between 1-13 hour intervals in the dataset. To improve the quality of the dataset, the GPS data were filtered prior to analysis to remove locations which were fixed in 2D space and visually assessed as a bad fix by the analyst.The methodology used for this migration analysis allowed for the mapping of winter ranges and the identification and prioritization of migration corridors. Brownian Bridge Movement Models (BBMMs; Sawyer et al. 2009) were constructed with GPS collar data from 43 migrating deer, including 149 migration sequences, location, date, time, and average location error as inputs in Migration Mapper. The average migration time and average migration distance for deer was 7.79 days and 26.72 km, respectively. Corridors and stopovers were prioritized based on the number of animals moving through a particular area. Corridors and stopovers were best visualized using a fixed motion variance of 500 per sequence. Winter range was processed with a fixed motion variance of 1000. All products were produced at a spatial resolution of 50 m using a sequential fix interval of less than 27 hours. Winter range analyses were based on data from 32 individual deer and 54 wintering sequences. Winter range designations for this herd may expand with a la
Copyright Text: Shelly Blair; Environmental Scientist; California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW); ; ; (916) 201-7349; ; ; Shelly.Blair@wildlife.ca.gov;
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