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Título: | Unravelling the sex- and age-specific impact of poaching mortality with multievent modeling |
Autor: | Corlatti, Luca; Sanz-Aguilar, Ana CSIC ORCID ; Tavecchia, Giacomo CSIC ORCID; Gugiatti, Alessandro; Pedrotti, Luca | Palabras clave: | Capture-recapture Deer GPS Illegal hunt Multievent models Recovery Resighting |
Fecha de publicación: | 13-jun-2019 | Editor: | BioMed Central | Citación: | Frontiers in Zoology 16: 20 (2019) | Resumen: | [Background] Poaching is a prominent source of 'hidden hurdles', cryptic impacts of human activities that may hinder the conservation of animal populations. Estimating poaching mortality is challenging, as the evidence for illegal killing is not outwardly obvious. Using resighting and recovery data collected on 141 marked red deer Cervus elaphus within the Stelvio National Park (central Italian Alps), we show how multievent models allow to assess the direct impacts of illegal harvesting on age- A nd sex-specific survival, accounting for uncertainty over mortality causes. [Results] Mortality caused by poaching was consistently higher for males than for females in all age classes. In males, the probability of dying from poaching was higher for extreme age classes, while in females all age classes showed fairly similar values of poaching mortality. The strong bias in sex-specific poaching mortality was possibly due to trophy killing in adult males and 'bushmeat-like' killing for private or commercial gain in young males and in females. [Conclusions] A robust assessment of age- A nd sex-specific prevalence of poaching in wildlife populations is pivotal when illegal killing is of conservation concern. This provides timely information on what segment of the population is most likely to be affected. Besides obvious demographic consequences on small populations, age- A nd sex-biased poaching prevalence may contrast with the need to maintain ecosystem complexity and may alter behavioral responses to human presence. The information provided by multievent models, whose flexibility makes them adaptable to many systems where individual-based data is part of population monitoring, offers a support to design appropriate strategies for the conservation of wildlife populations. |
Versión del editor: | http://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-019-0321-1 | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/202947 | DOI: | 10.1186/s12983-019-0321-1 | E-ISSN: | 1742-9994 |
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