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Effect of Hunting on the Reproduction of the Sable Population

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Analysis of hunting samples of the Kamchatka sable population for 2001–2013 has revealed changes in the reproductive parameters of females over the period from 1967 to 1979. Intensive hunting has led to a simplification of the age structure of the population and a rejuvenation of its reproductive core. The proportion of 1–2-year-old individuals among the adult females is 62.3%. These individuals have also begun to perform the main function of the population reproduction: 44% of the potential population growth is provided by 1- and 2-year-old females and 41.7% by 3–5-year-old females. The proportion of females of all other ages (from 6 to 14 years) is less than 15% of the population growth.

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  1. Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 685000, Magadan, Russia

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  3. Pacific Institute of Geography, Kamchatka Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far East Branch, 683000, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia

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Dubinin, E.A., Valentsev, A.S. Effect of Hunting on the Reproduction of the Sable Population. Russ J Ecol 51, 383–388 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413620040049

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