1. Presented by Lorraine McInnes Photo taken by Greg Wright

2. 1) Describe rattlesnake movement patterns at Bosque del Apache? 2) Do movement patterns and hibernacula differ between riparian and upland habitat?

3. Spatial Distributions Data analysis: Season and Gender variation, response to Temperature and Moisture fluctuations Habitat usage Data Organization

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6. Animal Movements Create Minimum Convex Polygons Calculate Movement Parameters Convert Locations To Paths Success!! 18 snakes- Routes and Home Range outputs

8. To get those results: Many repetitions, changes in excel and arcmap Learned many lessons on how to organize this kind of data Currently: Have an up to date, edited data file Simplified, step by step repeatable process to get weekly movement results.

9. Average size, all snakes (n=18): 31 ha, range 2-81 ha Average size, male (n=11): 35.2 ha, range 5-81 ha Average size, females (n=7): 24 ha, range 2-61 ha Male Female

10. NameAverage DistanceTotal Dist (m)Range No Move DaysTotal Days Bridge170.51534.541.2-382.31524 Chucky55.54993.71.9-34378168 Exit97.96901.32.2-736.72396 Feebooth59.15576.13.9-317.555151 Fireshop64.24363.74.4-612.541110 Hwy1Marsh68.04965.82.4-167.894168 Hwy1SVC72.06980.91.1-541.9169267 Hwy1Tool84.58872.61.9-338.163170 LFRdNewS67.94754.24.3-298.490162 MarshLoops125.612053.01.4-715.663161 MLoopOLD84.72712.01.4-435.24276 RR Trestle80.17292.43.5-390.178171 Sandog97.21360.22.2-476.93854 SBDAERR31.11741.11.9-290.2102158 Six Stall70.03150.62.4-241.159106 Smokey96.46938.55.8-780.830103 Spike123.48266.52.4-414.760128 Toilette76.14108.5.9-537.464120

12. Next step: Activity Clustering Statistical Analysis of Movements to describe movement differences by habitat, season, and gender *Revisit Spatial Statistics and Regression Analysis Virtual Courses

13. Hwy 1 and/or RR was crossed 81 times. Hwy1Tool-crossed road or tracks 22 times. Next highest number of crossings: 12

14. ArcScene-3D animation Animation in general Habitat-spatial join…veg type text to numeric value?! Hawth’s Tools-route issues continue

15. Refine movement parameters and generate more descriptive statistics Animate certain routes to better visualize movement, 2D, 3D- Flythrough tour Generate habitat use spatial join to determine which habitats the snakes were used more than others Field work: Characterize new dens and determine site preference based on various parameters-slope, aspect, elevation, proximity to roads, water, man-made structures, etc. Den Site Suitability model