Including behavioral data in demographic models improves estimates of population viability

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 419-427

  Gerber, Leah R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECUNDITY; GROWTH RATE; PINNIPED; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ZALOPHUS; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

EID: 33749465289     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1540-9295(2006)4[419:IBDIDM]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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