EagleDashboard: Assessing the population scale impacts of a disease, toxin, or contaminant in Bald Eagles
Over the past three decades, bald eagle populations in the United States have largely rebounded from their brush with near extirpation. Although DDT was banned, eagles were listed on the ESA, and their numbers reversed to the strong increase we observe today, human-sourced contaminants remain. One such contaminant is lead (Pb) which remains available to all scavenging wildlife when Pb ammunition is used in legal big game hunting. This interactive dashboard was developed to provide a tool that managers and stakeholders could use to identify the population scale impacts of lead (Pb) to bald eagles over the past three decades in their region of interest. The computations mirror those found in Hanley et al. 2019 and 202X but allow managers to input their own time series counts of demographic and necropsy data. Comparative demographic quantities include the annual abundances, bi-annual abundances, growth rates (asymptotic, transient, cumulative, and stochastic), stable stage distribution, reproductive value, elasticities, and inertia. The app is pre-programmed with the data to compare a population of bald eagles with and without Pb toxicosis in the northeast United States (Hanley et al. 202X), but the software may be modified to assess the population scale impact of other diseases, toxins, or contaminants from mortality counts of adults in other bald eagle populations.
Version History
| Version | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-18 21:47:58 | Edits during review of paper. See readme for full list of changes. | |
| 2023-08-18 19:38:51 | Edits during review of paper. | |
| 2023-05-09 08:43:34 | Modified original software after reviewer feedback. See readme document for full list of changes. | |
1* | 2020-07-24 12:09:14 |