Seasonal and annual fluctuations of deer populations estimated by a Bayesian state-space model.

Deer overabundance is a contributing factor in the degradation of plant communities and ecosystems worldwide. The management and conservation of the deer-affected ecosystems requires us to urgently grasp deer population trends and to identify the factors that affect them. In this study, we developed...

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Main Authors: Inoue Mizuki, Hiroki Itô, Michimasa Yamasaki, Shigeru Fukumoto, Yuuki Okamoto, Masaya Katsuki, Keitaro Fukushima, Masaru Sakai, Shota Sakaguchi, Daisuke Fujiki, Hikaru Nakagawa, Masae Iwamoto Ishihara, Atsushi Takayanagi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225872