Bio-energetic modeling of medium-sized cetaceans shows high sensitivity to disturbance in seasons of low resource supply.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the full scope of human impact on wildlife populations requires a framework to assess the population-level repercussions of nonlethal disturbance. The Population Consequences of Disturbance (PCoD) framework provides such an approach, by linking the effects of disturbance on the behavior and physiology of individuals to their population-level consequences. Bio-energetic models have been used as implementations of PCoD, as these integrate the behavioral and physiological state of an individual with the state of the environment, to mediate between disturbance and biological significant changes in vital rates (survival, growth, and reproduction). To assess which levels of disturbance lead to adverse effects on population growth rate requires a bio-energetic model that covers the

SUBMITTER: Hin V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6618318 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature