The potential of integrated modelling in conservation biology: A case study of the black‐footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) |
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| Authors: | Sophie Véran Jean‐Dominique Lebreton |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management 137 Mulford Hall #3114, University of California Berkeley, CA 94720–3114, USA;2. Centre d'écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive, UMR 5175 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 1919, route de Mende, FR‐34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France |
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| Abstract: | 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 |
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| Keywords: | Albatross conservation biology Kalman filter state‐space models |
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