Biases in the estimation of the demographic parameters of a snowshoe hare population

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 501-512

  Haydon, Daniel T ^a,b   Gillis, Elizabeth A ^a   Stefan, Carol I ^a   Krebs, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biased parameter estimation; Demographic parameters; Population elasticities; Population growth rates; Population sensitivity analyses; Snowshoe hare cycles; Survival rates

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0032991399     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.1999.00309.x     Document Type: Article

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