{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["12(2)"],"submitter":["Grainger Hunt W"],"pubmed_abstract":["Raptors are exposed to a wide variety of human-related mortality agents, and yet population-level effects are rarely quantified. Doing so requires modeling vital rates in the context of species life-history, behavior, and population dynamics theory. In this paper, we explore the details of such an analysis by focusing on the demography of a resident, tree-nesting population of golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in the vicinity of an extensive (142 km2) windfarm in California. During 1994-2000, we tracked the fates of >250 radio-marked individuals of four life-stages and conducted five annual surveys of territory occupancy and reproduction. Collisions with wind turbines accounted for 41% of 88 uncensored fatalities, most of which were subadults and nonbreeding adults (floaters). A consistent"],"journal":["PloS one"],"pagination":["e0172232"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5325282"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Quantifying the demographic cost of human-related mortality to a raptor population."],"pmcid":["PMC5325282"],"pubmed_authors":["David Wiens J","Grainger Hunt W","Fuller MR","Jackman RE","Law PR","Hunt TL","Driscoll DE"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Quantifying the demographic cost of human-related mortality to a raptor population.","description":"Raptors are exposed to a wide variety of human-related mortality agents, and yet population-level effects are rarely quantified. Doing so requires modeling vital rates in the context of species life-history, behavior, and population dynamics theory. In this paper, we explore the details of such an analysis by focusing on the demography of a resident, tree-nesting population of golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) in the vicinity of an extensive (142 km2) windfarm in California. During 1994-2000, we tracked the fates of >250 radio-marked individuals of four life-stages and conducted five annual surveys of territory occupancy and reproduction. Collisions with wind turbines accounted for 41% of 88 uncensored fatalities, most of which were subadults and nonbreeding adults (floaters). A consistent","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017","modification":"2025-04-18T19:24:08.415Z","creation":"2019-03-26T22:49:17Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5325282","cross_references":{"pubmed":["28234926"],"doi":["10.1371/journal.pone.0172232"]}}