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Evaluating egg translocation as a management strategy for improving recruitment in a drought-threatened vernal pool obligate species

June 15, 2026

This software release contains three R scripts that comprise an RShiny App to simulate scenarios and evaluate the optimal decision to move egg masses. The user is able to specify the size and number of egg masses in the donor and recipient pools as well as the number of recipient pools. The app will then display the number of metamorphs gained by moving the selected number of egg masses to each of the recipient pools and returns the optimal pool, number of egg masses to move, and number of metamorphs gained.

Publication Year 2026
Title Evaluating egg translocation as a management strategy for improving recruitment in a drought-threatened vernal pool obligate species
DOI 10.5066/P1QTJXUS
Authors Elise M Edwards, Adrianne Brand, Jillian E Fleming, Riley O Mummah, Evan H Grant
Product Type Software Release
Record Source USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
USGS Organization Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Leetown Research Laboratory
Rights This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
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