Package: WildLift 0.3.1

WildLift: An Open-source Tool to Guide Decisions for Wildlife Conservation

Compare alternative recovery actions: Linear Feature Restoration, Linear Feature Deactivation, Maternal Penning, Conservation Breeding, Predator Exclosure, Wolf Reduction, and Moose Reduction. Quantifying the trade-offs associated with alternative recovery actions for threatened species. The tool consists of a generalized matrix population model that is parametrized based on information from the published literature or ongoing experiments. Users can input population parameters (e.g., population size and survival rates) or choose from pre-set caribou subpopulations to estimate changes to populations from implementing recovery actions as described in Nagy-Reis et al. (2020) <doi:10.3389/fevo.2020.564508>.

Authors:Peter Solymos [aut, cre], Melanie Dickie [aut], Sophie Gilbert [aut], Mariana Nagy-Reis [aut], Rob Serrouya [aut], Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute [cph], Province of British Columbia [cph]