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Summary of "Misleading biases in methods for estimating wolf abundance using spatial models", a recent peer-reviewed scientific publication

Abundance (population size) is the primary criterion used for management and conservation decision-making, such as setting hunting quotas and the listing and delisting of species under the ESA. Abundance and its change over time are also primary inputs required for decision-making models, which range from expert opinion to management, AI, statistics, and forecasting that attempt to understand and predict the population response to impacts such as hunting, climate change, dist

Robert Crabtree

Sep 258 min read