Publications by authors named "Anna K Moeller"
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- - Recent declines in eastern wild turkey populations have sparked interest in understanding the factors affecting their demographics and how to manage them effectively.
- - The study involved reviewing 50 years of literature on vital rates of eastern wild turkeys, assessing various biotic and abiotic factors influencing these rates, and conducting a life-stage simulation analysis to identify key contributors to population growth.
- - Findings indicated a low average population growth rate (0.91), with adult female survival being the most critical factor, while gaps in research highlighted the need for more investigation into diseases, weather influences, and other potentially impactful factors on wild turkey vital rates.
Patterns of co-occurrence among species can help reveal the structure and assembly of ecological communities. However, studies have been limited by measuring co-occurrence in either space or time but not both simultaneously. This is especially problematic in systems such as masting forests where resources are highly variable, meaning that spatial use and co-occurrence patterns can change on fine spatiotemporal scales.
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