Integrating adult occurrence and reproduction data to identify conservation measures for amphibians.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring programs are pivotal to establishing sound management. Due to economic, logistic, and time limitations, monitoring programs often overlook differences among life-history stages. However, species occurrence does not necessarily mean population viability, and it is unclear to what extent monitoring programs that do not consider separately adult presence and reproduction provide effective management indications. Unfortunately, collecting data on certain life stages requires high sampling effort, leading to a trade-off between model reliability and resources needed for monitoring. We collected data on presence and reproduction of amphibians by monitoring 207 waterbodies in Lombardy (northern Italy) in 2017-2022. We then used multistate occupancy models to test whether certain enviro

SUBMITTER: Lo Parrino E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11780209 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature