Cody Deane

1 Introduction Correlations between demographic parameters estimated as random effects drawn from bivariate or multivariate normal distributions can be a useful method for quantifying ecological relationships (Link and Barker 2005). In the case of harvested populations for which tag-recovery data are available, correlation between annual harvest recovery, and survival probabilities has been estimated to assess the survival response of harvested populations to human exploitation (Sedinger et al.