The data contains anonymized survival information for boreal caribou population 'C', which spans 11 years. This dataset follows the methodology described in DeCesare et al. (2012) for estimating population growth rates using adult female survival data.
Format
A tibble with columns:
- PopulationName
Name of the population
- Year
The year the observation occurred
- Month
The month the observation occurred
- StartTotal
The total number of collared caribou at the start of the month
- MortalitiesCertain
The number of confirmed caribou mortalities in the month
- MortalitiesUncertain
The total number of mortalities that were not confirmed in that month
Details
The data is released under the Open Government Licence - Alberta