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ArticleEcology and evolution2025

Causal and Predictive Data Analysis for Conservation: Simulation Based Comparisons and a Case Study for Detecting Impact of Artificial Feeding on Eurasian Red Squirrel (

Yusaku Ohkubo, Ozora Takeda, Kenta Uchida

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Yusaku OhkuboOkayama University Okayama Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-8005
Ozora TakedaOkayama University Okayama Japan.
Kenta UchidaGraduate School of Agriculture and Life Science The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7998-1363

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Estimating the causal effect of a variable is an important task for applied ecology. While several methods have been applied to empirical, observational studies, there have been a few attempts to employ the causal inference approach based on the propensity score methods in ecology and evolutionary biology despite its widespread usage in other scientific fields. This paper applies the overlapping-weighted estimator to the Eurasian red squirrel

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artificial feedingcausationmodel selectionpropensity scorestatistics

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PMID40969362
PMCPMC12441010

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