Tests for senescent decline in annual survival probabilities of common pochards, Aythya ferina

Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1009-1018

  Nichols, James D ^a   Hines, James E ^a   Blums, Peter ^b,c  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Latvian Academy of Sciences   (Latvia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aythya ferina; Capture recapture models; Senescence; Survival probabilities

Indexed keywords

ANAS SP.; ANIMALIA; AYTHYA FERINA;

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE MODEL; POCHARD; SENESCENCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

LATVIA;

EID: 0030613830     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265854     Document Type: Article

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