Status and Distribution of the Eastern Spotted Skunk in Maryland: A Historic Review and Recent Assessment

Pearce, Kelly J.; Serfass, Thomas L.; McCann, James M.; Feller, Daniel

doi:10.1656/058.020.0sp1106

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“…These species include migratory birds such as the Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulean) (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2006;Dawson et al, 2012) and Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) (Bertin, 1977;Hoover et al, 1995;Rosenberg et al, 2003). They include mammals such as the Eastern Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius interrupta) (Lombardi et al, 2017;Hassler et al, 2021;Pearce et al, 2021), Appalachian Cottontail (Sylvilagus obscurus) (Chapman et al, 1992), Northern Long-eared Bat (Myotis septentrionalis) (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2022a), and Allegheny Woodrat (Neotoma magister) (Balcom and Yahner, 1996;Lombardi et al, 2017).…”

Section: Impacts Of Forest Clearing Projects 21 Impacts On Biodiversitymentioning

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Natural forests for a safe climate: Enhancing ecosystem integrity, biodiversity and adaptive capacity for climate mitigation

2024

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Section: Impacts Of Forest Clearing Projects 21 Impacts On Biodiversitymentioning

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Natural forests for a safe climate: Enhancing ecosystem integrity, biodiversity and adaptive capacity for climate mitigation

2024

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Forest-clearing to create early-successional habitats: Questionable benefits, significant costs

Kellett¹,

Maloof

Masino

et al. 2023

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A campaign is underway to clear established forests and expand early-successional habitats—also called young forest, pre-forest, early seral, or open habitats—with the intention of benefitting specific species. Coordinated by federal and state wildlife agencies, and funded with public money, public land managers work closely with hunting and forestry interests, conservation organizations, land trusts, and private landowners toward this goal. While forest-clearing has become a major focus in the Northeast and Upper Great Lakes regions of the U.S., far less attention is given to protecting and recovering old-forest ecosystems, the dominant land cover in these regions before European settlement. Herein we provide a discussion of early-successional habitat programs and policies in terms of their origins, in the context of historical baselines, with respect to species’ ranges and abundance, and as they relate to carbon accumulation and ecosystem integrity. Taken together, and in the face of urgent global crises in climate, biodiversity, and human health, we conclude that public land forest and wildlife management programs must be reevaluated to balance the prioritization and funding of early-successional habitat with strong and lasting protection for old-growth and mature forests, and, going forward, must ensure far more robust, unbiased, and ongoing monitoring and evaluation.

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Temporal and interspecific comparisons reveal shifts in the distributions of two Florida skunk species

Doran‐Myers,

Gillikin,

Barrett

et al. 2024

J Wildl Manag

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Understanding the distribution of wildlife species is key to their effective conservation and management. Comparing distributions of similar species can provide valuable insights regarding range overlap and how overlap changes over time. We estimated the geographic distributions of 2 skunk species, the eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius) and the striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), in Florida, USA, for historical (1997–2002) and contemporary (2017–2022) periods using opportunistic presence data (e.g., public sightings, camera trap records, live trap records). For each species, we produced range models at 2 levels: a generalized boundary (range extent) using a concave hull and a more detailed delineation (occupied range) using kernel density estimation. We expected spotted skunk range to decline (as it has elsewhere), striped skunk range to remain stable, and both species' ranges to have a relatively high geographic overlap. The contemporary models show spotted skunk range encompassing 26% of Florida land area, primarily in southern and coastal Florida, and striped skunk range encompassing 55% of Florida land area, primarily in northern and interior Florida. Range size for spotted skunk declined by approximately 30% between periods, although range expansion occurred in some localized areas. Range size for striped skunk was stable over time, with some localized contractions and expansions. Considerable temporal shifts occurred in skunk distribution, where only 34% of spotted skunk and 54% of striped skunk occupied range remained spatially constant between periods. Divergent geographic use between the 2 species increased over time, yielding a low range overlap of 23% between their contemporary occupied ranges. Our study fills a spatial data gap in skunk research, can inform state‐ or species‐level conservation decisions for spotted skunk, and supports the need for further research on habitat requirements of skunks in Florida.

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Status and Distribution of the Eastern Spotted Skunk in Maryland: A Historic Review and Recent Assessment

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Natural forests for a safe climate: Enhancing ecosystem integrity, biodiversity and adaptive capacity for climate mitigation

Natural forests for a safe climate: Enhancing ecosystem integrity, biodiversity and adaptive capacity for climate mitigation

Forest-clearing to create early-successional habitats: Questionable benefits, significant costs

Temporal and interspecific comparisons reveal shifts in the distributions of two Florida skunk species

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