Modelled wildlife and livestock population

Understanding responses of livestock and wildlife populations to climate and land use changes and human population growth is crucial to planning effective management and conservation, and sustainable ecosystem services. UHOH will relate wildlife and livestock population trends and distribution to existing climate, NDVI, land use and human population data using statistical models. Reliable estimates of projected future population sizes and the associated demographic and sampling uncertainties are important for quantifying expected changes in wildlife and livestock population sizes and population responses to changes in climate, land use and anthropogenic activities. UHOH will use existing climate, land use and human population growth data to build a hidden process model for predicting future population sizes and predicted rainfall scenarios to explore likely future population performances.