Estimability of migration survival rates from integrated breeding and winter capture-recapture data.

ABSTRACT: Long-distance migration is a common phenomenon across the animal kingdom but the scale of annual migratory movements has made it difficult for researchers to estimate survival rates during these periods of the annual cycle. Estimating migration survival is particularly challenging for small-bodied species that cannot carry satellite tags, a group that includes the vast majority of migratory species. When capture-recapture data are available for linked breeding and non-breeding populations, estimation of overall migration survival is possible but current methods do not allow separate estimation of spring and autumn survival rates. Recent development of a Bayesian integrated survival model has provided a method to separately estimate the latent spring and autumn survival rates using capture-

SUBMITTER: Rushing CS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6362449 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature