Dealing with death data: Individual hazards, mortality and bias

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 366-373

  Zens, Michael S ^a   Peart, David R ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAMPLING; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0038506350     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00096-X     Document Type: Review

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