A paradigm for population analysis of long-lived vertebrates

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2841-2854

  Eberhardt, L L ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Lambda; Long lived vertebrates; Lotka Leslie model; Population regulation; Sensitivity; Survival; Trend regressions

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038420697     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2841:APFPAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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