Lead Institution(s): Alaska Science Center
Project Lead: John Pearce
Collaborator(s): Denny Zweifelhofer (Kodiak NWR)
Focal Species: Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
Project Description: This was a one-year project to: (1) Continue DNA sampling, marking and recapture of molting Common Mergansers at Karluk Lake to enable an estimate of annual survival (conditioned by migratory distance), capture probability, and molt site fidelity; and (2) Capture molting Common Mergansers on fresh and salt water areas near Karluk Lake to further examine molt site fidelity and determine home range origins using mitochondrial (mt) DNA.
SDJV88 Interim Report FY07
Related Publications
M. Pearce, D. Zwiefelhofer, and N. Maryanski. 2009. Mechanisms of Population Heterogeneity Among Molting Common Mergansers on Kodiak Island, Alaska: Implications for Genetic Assessments of Migratory Connectivity. The Condor 111: 283 293. https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2009.080043
