Some approaches to accounting for incidental carcass discoveries in non-monitored years using the Evidence of Absence model

Abstract

Executive Summary We evaluate three approaches to accounting for incidental carcasses when estimating an upper bound on total mortality ( 𝑀𝑀 ) as 𝑀𝑀 ∗ using the Evidence of Absence model (EoA; Dalthorp and others, 2017) to assess compliance with an Incidental Take Permit (ITP) (Dalthorp & Huso, 2015) under a monitoring protocol that includes formal, dedicated carcass surveys that achieve an overall detection probability of