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The potential of integrated modelling in conservation biology: A case study of the black‐footed albatross ( Phoebastria nigripes )
Author(s) -
Véran Sophie,
Lebreton JeanDominique
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1708-945X
pISSN - 0319-5724
DOI - 10.1002/cjs.5550360109
Subject(s) - albatross , conservation biology , population biology , population , fishery , biology , fishing , population model , ecology , geography , demography , sociology
Conservation biology aims at assessing the status of a population, based on information which is often incomplete. Integrated population modelling based on state‐space models appears to be a powerful and relevant way of combining into a single likelihood several types of information such as capture‐recapture data and population surveys. In this paper, the authors describe the principles of integrated population modelling and they evaluate its performance for conservation biology based on a case study, that of the black‐footed albatross, a northern Pacific albatross species suspected to be impacted by longline fishing