Modelling life history strategies with capture-recapture data: Evolutionary demography of the water skink Eulamprus tympanum

Austral Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 349-359

  Blomberg, Simon P ^a,b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Eulamprus tympanum; Evolution; Life history; Lizard; Loop; Mark recapture analysis; Maximum likelihood; Population matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037855400     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2001.01120.x     Document Type: Article

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