Wallace Coffee Talks - Winter 2021
26th January - 1pm - Online (Zoom)
Fancy a cup of coffee or tea and learning more about the researchers at Swansea university and beyond? Come join us at the Wallace coffee talks: an informal seminar series where students, staff and others related to Swansea university speak about their research or personal interests.Dominik Behr - University of Zurich
Quantifying multistate mortality with incomplete records: A case study of the endangered African wild dog
Mortality
is a key demographic process in ecology and unbiased estimation thereof is
paramount to understand and predict population dynamics. Studying mortality in
wild animal populations, however, is often impeded by incomplete records such
as, for instance, missing time of death of individuals that disappeared under unknown
circumstances. In this talk, I will introduce a Bayesian framework to estimate
mortality with incomplete records and present an application to a long-term
dataset on the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus). Our findings
show that mortality during dispersal was lower than at philopatry in wild dogs
of either sex.
More information about Dominik's research project on African wild dogs can be found here:
