The trap of hidden processes: Why ‘quick & dirty’ methods to estimate mortality are not always good. A comment to De Pascalis et al. (2020)

Giacomo Tavecchia, Jaume Adrover, Antoni Muñoz Navarro, Roger Pradel, Modelling mortality causes in longitudinal data in the presence of tag loss: application to raptor poisoning and electrocution Journal of Applied Ecology. ,vol. 49, pp. 297- 305 ,(2012) , 10.1111/J.1365-2664.2011.02074.X

Kenneth F. Kellner, Robert K. Swihart, Accounting for imperfect detection in ecology: a quantitative review. PLOS ONE. ,vol. 9, ,(2014) , 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0111436

E. A. Catchpole, B. J. T. Morgan, T. Coulson, Conditional methodology for individual case history data Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series C-applied Statistics. ,vol. 53, pp. 123- 131 ,(2004) , 10.1111/J.1467-9876.2004.00430.X

G. TAVECCHIA, T. COULSON, B. J. T. MORGAN, J. M. PEMBERTON, J. C. PILKINGTON, F. M. D. GULLAND, T. H. CLUTTON-BROCK, Predictors of reproductive cost in female Soay sheep Journal of Animal Ecology. ,vol. 74, pp. 201- 213 ,(2005) , 10.1111/J.1365-2656.2005.00916.X

Olivier Gimenez, Anne Viallefont, Anne Charmantier, Roger Pradel, Emmanuelle Cam, Charles R. Brown, Mark D. Anderson, Mary Bomberger Brown, Rita Covas, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, The risk of flawed inference in evolutionary studies when detectability is less than one. The American Naturalist. ,vol. 172, pp. 441- 448 ,(2008) , 10.1086/589520

De Pascalis, F., Panuccio, M., Bacaro, G., Monti, F., Shift in proximate causes of mortality for six large migratory raptors over a century Biological Conservation. ,vol. 251, pp. 108793- ,(2020) , 10.1016/J.BIOCON.2020.108793