Density-dependence produces spurious relationships among demographic parameters in a harvested species.

ABSTRACT: Harvest of wild organisms is an important component of human culture, economy, and recreation, but can also put species at risk of extinction. Decisions that guide successful management actions therefore rely on the ability of researchers to link changes in demographic processes to the anthropogenic actions or environmental changes that underlie variation in demographic parameters. Ecologists often use population models or maximum sustained yield curves to estimate the impacts of harvest on wildlife and fish populations. Applications of these models usually focus exclusively on the impact of harvest and often fail to consider adequately other potential, often collinear, mechanistic drivers of the observed relationships between harvest and demographic rates. In this study, we used an integr

SUBMITTER: Riecke TV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9826280 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature