Comparative survival pattern of the syntopic pine and stone martens in a trapped rural area in France

摘要: Very little is known about the population dynamics of pine martens Martes martes and stone foina in Europe, even less impact human activities, such as trapping, hunting road traffic, on populations, despite their crucial importance for deriving reliable conservation management strategies. We used multistate capture–recapture models to analyse histories that combined information radio-tracking data recoveries dead martens. This formulation, based conditional probabilities, also allowed us estimate contribution trapping overall mortality, accounting detection failures exposure. applied this approach age- sex-specific survivals (N = 40) (N = 38) same rural area France, where both species could be legally trapped hunted. Annual adults were similar, estimated at 0.49 [± 0.12 standard deviation (sd) martens; ± 0.10 sd martens]. The annual probability dying from was 0.21 0.19 adult martens, respectively. At individual level, a negative linear relationship observed between marten's survival exposure, but not case which experienced far lower exposure trapping. These results confirm have large marten populations. Vehicle collisions second major cause mortality our study area. paper presents first estimates syntopic Europe an important step towards modelling these species.