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{"@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CreativeWork", "additionalType": "USGS Numbered Series", "name": "Distribution of giant gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) in the Sacramento\u2013San Joaquin Delta, California, 2018\u20132019", "identifier": [{"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "USGS Publications Warehouse IndexID", "value": "ofr20201119", "url": "https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20201119"}, {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "USGS Publications Warehouse Internal ID", "value": 70215555}, {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "DOI", "value": "10.3133/ofr20201119", "url": "https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20201119"}], "inLanguage": "en", "isPartOf": [{"@type": "CreativeWorkSeries", "name": "Open-File Report"}], "datePublished": "2020", "dateModified": "2020-10-27", "abstract": "SummaryWe examined the occurrence of giant gartersnakes in the Sacramento\u2013San Joaquin Delta, California, in 2018 and 2019.\u00a0We made eight captures of seven giant gartersnakes (three females, four males) in 2018, and six captures of six giant gartersnakes (four females, two males) in 2019.\u00a0Detection probabilities were exceedingly low despite using methods that achieve much higher detection probabilities in the rice-growing regions of the Sacramento Valley, California.\u00a0Our results indicated negative effects of salinity and prey abundance and positive effects of percent emergent vegetation on giant gartersnake occurrence in the Delta, but credible intervals of effect sizes broadly overlapped zero.\u00a0Estimates of giant gartersnake probability of occurrence were characterized by substantial uncertainty.\u00a0Additional study with a larger sample of randomly selected but accessible sites would help to further resolve the distribution of giant gartersnakes in the Delta and clarify how the physical and biotic environment in the Delta affects where giant gartersnakes exist.Methodological development to increase detection probabilities in the Delta also would improve inference about giant gartersnake occupancy in the region.\u00a0\u00a0", "description": "vi, 26 p.", "publisher": {"@type": "Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "author": [{"@type": "Person", "name": "Jordan, Anna C. ajordan@usgs.gov", "givenName": "Anna C.", "familyName": "Jordan", "email": "ajordan@usgs.gov", "identifier": {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "ORCID", "value": "0000-0001-8834-4542", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8834-4542"}, "affiliation": [{"@type": "Organization", "name": "Western Ecological Research Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc"}]}, {"@type": "Person", "name": "Fouts, Kristen J. kfouts@usgs.gov", "givenName": "Kristen J.", "familyName": "Fouts", "email": "kfouts@usgs.gov", "identifier": {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "ORCID", "value": "0000-0003-1325-1709", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1325-1709"}, "affiliation": [{"@type": "Organization", "name": "Western Ecological Research Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc"}]}, {"@type": "Person", "name": "Kim, Richard rkim@usgs.gov", "givenName": "Richard", "familyName": "Kim", "email": "rkim@usgs.gov", "identifier": {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "ORCID", "value": "0000-0001-5891-0582", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-0582"}, "affiliation": [{"@type": "Organization", "name": "Western Ecological Research Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc"}]}, {"@type": "Person", "name": "Fulton, Alexandria M. afulton@usgs.gov", "givenName": "Alexandria M.", "familyName": "Fulton", "email": "afulton@usgs.gov", "identifier": {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "ORCID", "value": "0000-0002-1070-4605", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1070-4605"}, "affiliation": [{"@type": "Organization", "name": "Western Ecological Research Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc"}]}, {"@type": "Person", "name": "Rose, Jonathan P. jprose@usgs.gov", "givenName": "Jonathan P.", "familyName": "Rose", "email": "jprose@usgs.gov", "identifier": {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "ORCID", "value": "0000-0003-0874-9166", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0874-9166"}, "affiliation": [{"@type": "Organization", "name": "Western Ecological Research Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc"}]}, {"@type": "Person", "name": "Ersan, Julia S. 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