Actuarial senescence and demographic heterogeneity in the florida scrub JAY

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2373-2381

  Mcdonald, David B ^a,c   Fitzpatrick, John W ^a,d   Woolfenden, Glen E ^b  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d 14850 erc25 cornelledu   (United States)

Author keywords

Actuarial senescence; Age dependent mortality; Demography; Florida Scrub Jay; Heterogeneity; Life history; Mortality; Senescence; Vertebrate; Weibull model

Indexed keywords

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS;

AGE-DEPENDENT MORTALITY; FLORIDA SCRUB JAY; MORTALITY; SENESCENCE;

USA, FLORIDA;

EID: 0030418744     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265739     Document Type: Article

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