A stochastic model for estimating sustainable limits to wildlife mortality in a changing world.

ABSTRACT: Human-caused mortality of wildlife is a pervasive threat to biodiversity. Assessing the population-level impact of fisheries bycatch and other human-caused mortality of wildlife has typically relied upon deterministic methods. However, population declines are often accelerated by stochastic factors that are not accounted for in such conventional methods. Building on the widely applied potential biological removal (PBR) equation, we devised a new population modeling approach for estimating sustainable limits to human-caused mortality and applied it in a case study of bottlenose dolphins affected by capture in an Australian demersal otter trawl fishery. Our approach, termed sustainable anthropogenic mortality in stochastic environments (SAMSE), incorporates environmental and demographic stoc

SUBMITTER: Manlik O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9542519 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature