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Title
Estimating cause-specific mortality rates using recovered carcasses
Author(s)
Joly, D.O., D.M. Heisey, M.D. Samuel, C.A. Ribic, N.J. Thomas, S.D. Wright, and I.E. Wright
Published
2009
Publisher
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Abstract
Describing the causes of mortality is an important component of conservation research, especially in long-lived threatened and endangered mammals where variation in mortality is a principle determinant of population growth. This study derives a novel methodology to estimate cause-specific mortality rates by combining necropsy data with independent estimates of total mortality rates. It further applies this approach to California sea otters and Florida manatees.
Full Citation
Joly, D.O., D.M. Heisey, M.D. Samuel, C.A. Ribic, N.J. Thomas, S.D. Wright, and I.E. Wright. 2009. Estimating cause-specific mortality rates using recovered carcasses. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45:122-127
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