| Titre : | Is hunting mortality additive or compensatory to natural mortality? Effects of experimental harvest on the survival and cause-specific mortality of willow ptarmigan |
| Auteurs : | Brett K. Sandercock, Auteur ; Erlend B. Nilsen, Auteur ; Henrik Broseth, Auteur ; Hans C. Pedersen, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Journal of Animal Ecology (80(1) JAN 2011) |
| Article en page(s) : | 244-258 |
| Résumé : | P>1. The effects of harvest on the annual and seasonal survival of willow ptarmigan Lagopus lagopus L. were tested in a large-scale harvest experiment. Management units were randomly assigned to one of three experimental treatments: 0%, 15% or 30% harvest. Seasonal quotas were based on the experimental treatment and estimates of bird density before the hunting season. Survival rates and hazard functions for radio-marked ptarmigan were then estimated under the competing risks of harvest and natural mortality. 2. The partially compensatory mortality hypothesis was supported: annual survival of ptarmigan was 0 center dot 54 +/- 0 center dot 08 SE under 0% harvest, 0 center dot 47 +/- 0 center dot 06 under 15% harvest, and was reduced to 0 center dot 30 +/- 0 center dot 05 under 30% harvest. Harvest mortality increased linearly from 0 center dot 08 +/- 0 center dot 05, 0 center dot 27 +/- 0 center dot 05 and 0 center dot 42 +/- 0 center dot 06 from 0% to 30% harvest, whereas natural mortality was 0 center dot 38 +/- 0 center dot 08, 0 center dot 25 +/- 0 center dot 05 and 0 center dot 28 +/- 0 center dot 06 under the same treatments. 3. Realized risk of harvest mortality was 0 center dot 08-0 center dot |



