Comparing population growth rates between census and recruitment‐mortality models

• Published in: The Journal of Wildlife Management
• Main Authors: Serrouya, Robert, Gilbert, Sophie, McNay, R. Scott, Mclellan, Bruce N., Heard, Douglas C., Seip, Dale R., Boutin, Stan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21185; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjwmg.21185; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/jwmg.21185/fullpdf

ABSTRACT In forested ecosystems, estimating the abundance or trend of most wildlife populations is difficult. Therefore, vital rates are often used to model population change, but validating such models is important. Using data from woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus ), we compared estimates of po...