Co-Occurrence and Occupancy of Mourning Doves and Eurasian Collared-Doves

Understanding how land cover and potential competition with invasive species shape patterns of occupancy, extirpation, and colonization of native species across a landscape can help target management for declining native populations. Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) populations have declined through...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Journal of wildlife management 2020-05, Vol.84 (4), p.775-785
Main Authors: GREEN, ADAM W., SOFAER, HELEN R., OTIS, DAVID L., VAN LANEN, NICHOLAS J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Breeding
Breeding seasons
Colonization
competition
Eurasian collared‐dove
Food preferences
Habitat Relations
Indigenous species
Introduced species
Invasive species
Land cover
mourning dove
Occupancy
Populations
Streptopelia decaocto
two‐species occupancy
Wildlife
Wildlife habitats
Wildlife management
Zenaida macroura
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Understanding how land cover and potential competition with invasive species shape patterns of occupancy, extirpation, and colonization of native species across a landscape can help target management for declining native populations. Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) populations have declined throughout the United States from 1965–2015. The expansion of the Eurasian collared-dove (Streptopelia decaocto), an introduced species with similar food preferences, may further threaten mourning dove populations. We analyzed data from 2009–2016 from a large-scale monitoring program in the Western Great Plains of the United States in a 2-species occupancy model to assess the effects of collared-doves on mourning dove distributions, while accounting for imperfect detection and variation in land cover across the landscape. Mourning dove occupancy was stable or increasing across our study area, and despite overlap in resource use and co-occurrence between mourning doves and Eurasian collared-doves, we found no evidence that collared-doves are extirpating mourning doves from preferred habitat during the breeding season.
ISSN:0022-541X
1937-2817
DOI:10.1002/jwmg.21835