Peck ranch collared lizard files

Eastern collared lizards (Crotophytus collaris collaris) were a Missouri state endangered species when this study began in 1982 due to massive local extinction on glades in the Ozarks in central North America.  Translocation coupled with glade restoration was initiated in the 1980’s, including reintroductions starting in 1984 on Stegall Mountain in southern Missouri.  The translocated populations underwent three distinct demographic phases:  1) an isolate phase with no net growth in population size, no colonization of nearby glades, and almost no dispersal among populations, 2) a colonizing phase of high dispersal, colonization of new glades, and population growth that started with the onset of prescribed woodland burning, and 3) a stable metapopulation phase established by 2000 on Stegall Mountain in which the number of occupied glades, total population size, and measures of genetic variation were roughly constant.  The data in this dryad submission are association ..., The raw information in this file was written down in field notebooks by the collector at the time of capture.  All these notebooks are in the procession of Alan Templeton.  Alan Templeton assembled all of these data from the field notebooks into this Excel file.  Typically, the field data were entered into the Excel file the evening after a day of collection.  All entries were double-checked for accuracy of transcription from the field notebooks.
The maps were made by overlaying aerial photographs with extensive ground-trothing upon standard topographic maps from the USGS.
Latitude and longitude of central glade positions were taken with a handheld Garmin GPS unit and then downloaded directly from the device.
The information in the genetic data file was produced by Jennifer Neuwald, now at Colorado State University.  It gives the genotypes at six microsatellite loci for the lizards captured on Thorny Mountain., The data includes six files:
PECK RANCH COLLARED LIZARD DATA, an Excel file giving the capture/recapture data on collared lizard populations translocated to the Peck Ranch Conservation Area between 1984 and 1989 and their subsequent fate through 2014.
THORNY MTN GENETIC DATA, an Excel file giving the genotypes of all lizards captured on Thorny Mountain for six microsatellite loci between 2001 and 2006.
 
Supplementary Files:
STEGALL AND MULE MOUNTAIN GLADES, a PDF file showing the glades with numbers on Stegall and Mule Mountains overplayed upon a topographic map.
THORNY MOUNTAIN GLADES, a PDF file showing the glades with numbers on Thorny Mountain overplayed upon a topographic map.
MILL MOUNTAIN GLADES, a PDF file showing the glades with numbers on Mill Mountain overplayed upon a topographic map. 
PECK GLADE GPS WAYPOINTS, a text file that gives the latitude and longitude of the glades in this study as determined by GPS., , # Peck ranch collared lizard files

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.63xsj3v50](10.5061/dryad.63xsj3v50)

## Change log from the original files generated on 2022-06-27

A new file has been added entitled Thorny_Genetic_Data that gives the micro satellite genotypes of the lizards captured on Thorny Mountain between 2001 and 2006.  The variables used in this file are given in this update.  The Access Information section has been updated to include many more recent references to manuscripts that use these data files under the subsection \"Publications that cite, contain or use the data:\".

## Description of the data and file structure

Eastern collared lizards (*Crotophytus collaris collaris*) were a Missouri state endangered species when this study began in 1982 due to massive local extinction on glades in the Ozarks in central North America.  Translocation coupled with glade restoration was initiated in the 1980’s, including reintroductions starting in 1984 on Stegall Mountain in southern Miss...