Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
647 Sul Ross State University (142535)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Justin French
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 2,363,086
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): Yes
Start and End Dates: 2/16/23 - 12/31/28
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: Natural Resource Management
Department, Center, School, or Institute: Borderlands Research Institute
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: BAM 2.0: Investigating density-dependent competition among desert bighorn, auoudad, and mule deer to identify achievable management targets
Name of Granting or Contracting Agency/Entity:
Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept.
CFDA Link: DOI
15.611
Program Title:
Wildlife Restoration (Section 4b)
CFDA Linked: Wildlife Restoration
Note:
1.1.1 -- quantify niche breadth and overlap among aoudad and mule deer under varying aoudad densities; monitor pathogen and disease prevalence among aoudad while reducing their density to identify whether removal reduces disease risks; project preferred habitat of deser bighorn sheep (DBS), mule deer, and aoudad; project co-occurrence probability across the landscape, representing disease transmission hot-spots and 'competitive battle grounds'; identify refuge niche space under the scenario that aoudad competitively exclude mule deer, then project refuge habitat and resulting interaction hot-spots; identify relationships between aoudad abundance and niche breadth of mule deer, identifying tolerable aoudad abundance to mule deer; and monitor movement, survival, and M. ovi prevalence in resident DBS herds in Big Bend Ranch State Park and Black Gap Wildlife Management Area.
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