Demographic effects of sanitary policies on European vulture population dynamics: A retrospective modeling approach.

ABSTRACT: The prediction of population responses to environmental changes, including the effects of different management scenarios, is a useful tool and a necessary contributor to improving conservation decisions. Empirical datasets based on long-term monitoring studies are essential to assess the robustness of retrospective modeling predictions on biodiversity. These allow checks on the performance of modeling projections and enable improvements to be made to future models, based on the errors detected. Here, we assess the performance of our earlier model to assess the impact of vulture food shortages caused by sanitary regulations on the population dynamics of Spanish vultures during the past decade (2009-2019). This model forecasts the population trends of three vulture species (griffon, Egyptian

SUBMITTER: Colomer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11837464 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature