A hierarchical model for jointly assessing ecological and anthropogenic impacts on animal demography.

ABSTRACT: The management of sustainable harvest of animal populations is of great ecological and conservation importance. Development of formal quantitative tools to estimate and mitigate the impacts of harvest on animal populations has positively impacted conservation efforts. The vast majority of existing harvest models, however, do not simultaneously estimate ecological and harvest impacts on demographic parameters and population trends. Given that the impacts of ecological drivers are often equal to or greater than the effects of harvest, and can covary with harvest, this disconnect has the potential to lead to flawed inference. In this study, we used Bayesian hierarchical models and a 43-year capture-mark-recovery dataset from 404,241 female mallards Anas platyrhynchos released in the North Ame

SUBMITTER: Riecke TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543922 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature