Individual Identification of the Endangered Wyoming ToadAnaxyrus baxteriand Implications for Monitoring Species Recovery
| Autor: | Wendy A. Estes-Zumpf, Jonathan P. Crall, Douglas A. Keinath, Thomas A. Morrison, Charles V. Stewart |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
Dorsum biology Ecology 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology media_common.quotation_subject Anaxyrus baxteri Endangered species biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Wyoming toad Adult life Animal Science and Zoology Identification (biology) Metamorphosis Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Herpetology. 50:44-49 |
| ISSN: | 0022-1511 |
| DOI: | 10.1670/14-155 |
| Popis: | Monitoring the fates of individuals after release in the wild is essential for building effective species recovery programs. Current conservation efforts for the endangered Wyoming Toad (Anaxyrus baxteri) are limited by the size and number of toads that can be individually marked using invasive tagging techniques. We evaluated the use of natural patterns of wart-like glands on the dorsum of Wyoming Toads as a potential identification technique. We photographed 194 known-identity individuals (822 total images, representing 1,554 true matching-image pairs of the same individuals) from two captive-breeding facilities in 2011 and 2012. Spot patterns provided stable markings from metamorphosis through adult life stages, and naive observers correctly matched 100% of a subset of photo pairs “by eye.” In contrast, computer-assisted identification performed relatively poorly: the two software platforms tested (Wild-ID and Hotspotter) failed to match 47% and 64% of true matching-image pairs, respectively. ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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