Another aspect of our search - and - rescue procedures involves survival models. (scientificamerican.com)
This is not another «worse than we thought» moment (Amstrup et al. 2007)-- this is sea ice models so wrong as to be useless: failed models used to inform future polar bear survival models that got the bears declared «threatened» with extinction in the US in 2008 (Crockford 2017). (polarbearscience.com)
While previous research on the same dataset had primarily focused on the effect of its phenotypic traits, such as its broad diet and high reproduction rate, the new study compared sightings with spatial survival models in order to identify where the ladybird might appear next. (sciencedaily.com)