Survival, Abundance, and Capture Rate of Eastern Cottontail Rabbits in an Urban Park
Victoria M. Hunt1
Seth B. Magle2
Chino Vargas2
Alison W. Brown2
Eric V. Lonsdorf2
Allison B. Sacerdote2
Evan J. Sorley2
Rachel M. Santymire2
Survival, abundance, and capture rate of eastern cottontail rabbits in an urban park
Journal: Urban Ecosystems
1University of Illinois at Chicago
1845 W Taylor Street, Chicago, IL, 60607
2Lincoln Park Zoo
22001 N Clark Street, Chicago, IL, 60614, USA
Corresponding author: Victoria M. Hunt
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Supplemental table 1 Competing recapture models generated in the program MARK (model POPAN) using eastern cottontail rabbit recapture histories obtained in 2010, 2011 and 2012 in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. The MLogitlink function is used for the probability of entrance (b; PENT) parameters. Unlike the other model parameters, super-population can exceed 1, and therefore a Log link function is used for N. Models are arranged in descending order of best fit as determined by corrected Akaike information criterion (AICc). PENT = probability of entrance. Var = variance estimation method
Model / Parameters / AICc / Var. / No. par.Constant / Variable by time
(t)p(t)b(t) / Survival, Capture, PENT / 0 / 2nd Part / 5
(.)p(.)b(t) / Survival, Capture / PENT / 3.4 / 2nd Part / 4
(t)p(t)b(t) / Survival, Capture, PENT / 6.6 / Hessian / 8
(.)p(t)b(.) / Survival, PENT / Capture / 110337 / 2nd Part / 4
(t)p(.)b(.) / Capture, PENT / Survival / 110337 / 2nd Part / 4
(.)p(.)b(.) / Survival, Capture, PENT / 110339 / 2nd Part / 3
Supplemental table 2 Capture rate (incidents of capture divided by number of sampling occasions)of eastern cottontail rabbits by date in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois
Sampling Occasion / Traps / Capture rate21 Jan 2010 / 24 / 0.083
26 Jan 2010 / 24 / 0.417
27 Jan 2010 / 24 / 0.458
28 Jan 2010 / 18 / 0.667
2 Feb 2010 / 24 / 0.500
3 Feb 2010 / 24 / 0.458
4 Feb 2010 / 24 / 0.708
9 Feb 2010 / 20 / 0.650
16 Feb 2010 / 22 / 0.727
17 Feb 2010 / 24 / 0.583
19 Jan 2011 / 32 / 0.156
20 Jan 2011 / 32 / 0.187
15 Feb 2011 / 32 / 0.125
16 Feb 2011 / 32 / 0.156
17 Feb 2011 / 32 / 0.250
18 Feb 2011 / 32 / 0.250
23 Feb 2011 / 32 / 0.218
24 Feb 2011 / 32 / 0.281
1 Mar 2011 / 32 / 0.281
2 Mar 2011 / 32 / 0.375
3 Mar 2011 / 32 / 0.281
4 Mar 2011 / 32 / 0.375
31 Jan 2012 / 19 / 0.368
1 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.368
2 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.632
3 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.737
7 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.526
8 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.368
9 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.421
10 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.580
14 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.474
15 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.421
16 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.684
17 Feb 2012 / 19 / 0.579
Supplemental table 3Resight survey outcomes of eastern cottontail rabbits in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois. Nmarkedrefers to the number of marked rabbits in the study population. Nobservedrefers to the total number of rabbits observed in the survey on the sampling occasion indicated. Nobserved-marked refers to the number of observed rabbits that were marked in the survey on the sampling occasion indicated
Sampling Occasion / Nmarked / Nobserved / Nobserved-marked25 Feb 2010 / 76 / 45 / 22
26 Feb 2010 / 76 / 60 / 27
1 Mar 2010 / 76 / 39 / 16
2 Mar 2010 / 76 / 42 / 19
3 Mar 2010 / 76 / 54 / 21
4 Mar 2010 / 76 / 59 / 20
5 Mar 2010 / 76 / 62 / 28
7 March 2011 / 41 / 21 / 9
8 Mar 2011 / 41 / 21 / 8
9 Mar 2011 / 41 / 16 / 5
9 Mar 2011 / 41 / 30 / 10
10 Mar 2011 / 41 / 28 / 9
11 Mar 2011 / 41 / 24 / 8
14 Mar 2011 / 41 / 25 / 11
27 Feb 2012 / 57 / 11 / 4
28 Feb 2012 / 57 / 18 / 7
29 Feb 2012 / 57 / 16 / 10
1 Mar 2012 / 57 / 16 / 9
2 Mar 2012 / 57 / 19 / 10
5 Mar 2012 / 57 / 16 / 9
6 Mar 2012 / 57 / 16 / 12
7 Mar 2012 / 57 / 20 / 12
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