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- Title
Probabilistic model for estimating field mortality of target and non-target bird populations when simultaneously exposed to avicide bait.
- Authors
Johnston, John J.; Holmes, Melvin J.; Hart, Andy; Kohler, Dennis J.; Stahl, Randal S.
- Abstract
A probabilistic model was developed to estimate target and non-target avian mortality associated with the application of the avicide CPTH (3-chloro-p-toluidine hydrochloride) to minimize sprouting rice damage in the southern USA. CPTH exposures for individual birds were predicted by random sampling from species-specific non-parametric distributions of bait seed consumption and CPTH residues detected on individual bait seeds. Mortality was predicted from the species-specific exposure versus mortality relationship. Individual variations in this response were captured in the model by Monte Carlo sampling from species-specific distributions of slopes and median toxicity values (LD50) for each bird. The model was used to simultaneously predict mortality (percentage of exposed population and number of birds killed/weight of consumed bait) for a target (blackbird) and non-target (mourning dove) species feeding on bait sites for up to five consecutive days.
- Subjects
MORTALITY; BIRD populations; TOXICITY testing; CHEMICALS; CHEMICAL processes; ANIMAL ecology
- Publication
Pest Management Science, 2005, Vol 61, Issue 7, p649
- ISSN
1526-498X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ps.1040