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Capture-Mark-Recapture Data for Giant Gartersnakes in the Sacramento Valley, California from 1999-2016

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2018-08-06T00:00:00Z
These data are from capture-mark-recapture studies of the giant gartersnake, Thamnophis gigas, in the Sacramento Valley of California, USA from 1999-2016. The data are primarily capture histories (number of captures per year) for 1891 total snakes from 10 sites. Additional data include environmental covariates including precipitation, vegetative cover, and prey abundance from 8 sites from 2011-2016. The files also include R code to reproduce the analyses of giant gartersnake survival presented in Rose et al. (2018) Ecosphere. NOTE: Data are in Supporting Information section of publication (https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1002%2Fecs2.2384&file=ecs22384-sup-0001-DataS1.zip).

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