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  • Ecology
  • Spatial Statistics
  • Wildlife Biology

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  • Animal mortality risk is spatially variable and linked to landscape use.
  • Existing telemetry studies often overlook mortality data, missing crucial survival insights.
  • Understanding spatial mortality drivers is key for wildlife conservation and population management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel spatial point process (SPP) modeling framework.
  • To integrate relative abundance, space use, and mortality processes.
  • To infer how spatial covariates influence both animal space use and mortality risk.

Main Methods:

  • Introduced a thinned spatial point process (SPP) modeling framework.
  • Embedded the SPP model within a hierarchical statistical framework.
  • Fitted the model to telemetry data (VHF and GPS) for inference.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated the coupling of relative abundance and space use with mortality processes.
  • Showcased the ability to formally treat mortality events as a spatial process.
  • Applied the method to willow ptarmigan and black bear data, revealing effects of roads and habitat.

Conclusions:

  • The developed SPP framework is broadly applicable across species and data types.
  • Enables robust inferences on mechanisms driving animal survival and spatial population dynamics.
  • Advances joint analysis methods for understanding spatially explicit survival processes.