Estimation of mule deer winter mortality from age ratios

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-44

  White, Gary C ^a   Reeve, Archie F ^b   Lindzey, Frederick G ^c   Burnham, Kenneth P ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b PIC Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

binomial; change in ratio; herd composition; maximum likelihood; overwinter survival; Poisson

Indexed keywords

AGE RATIO; MULE DEER; SURVIVAL RATE; WINTER;

USA, WYOMING;

ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS;

EID: 0029668188     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802037     Document Type: Article

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