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A state-dependent model for assessing the population consequences of disturbance on income-breeding mammals

2018
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Ecological Modelling

McHuron, E.A., Schwarz, L.K., Costa, D.P. & Mangel, M.

Human activities continue to expand in marine and terrestrial environments, leading to increased interactions with wildlife that can have negative impacts on population dynamics. Approaches for...
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Keywords: Acoustic disturbance, Life history, Marine mammals, PCoD, Stochastic Dynamic Programming

Stochastic dynamic programming: An approach for modelling the population consequences of disturbance due to lost foraging opportunities

2016
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics

Schwarz, L. K., E. McHuron, M. Mangel, R. S. Wells, and D. P. Costa.

Since the introduction of the population consequences of disturbance (PCoD) conceptual model, lost energy has become a central component of modelling biologically meaningful disturbance. Long-term datasets...
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Keywords: Bottlenose dolphins, Disturbance, Elephant seals, Stochastic Dynamic Programming