Spatiotemporal variation in reproductive parameters of yellow-bellied marmots

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-106

  Ozgul, Arpat ^a   Oli, Madan K ^a   Olson, Lucretia E ^b   Blumstein, Daniel T ^b   Armitage, Kenneth B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding probability; Capture mark recapture (CMR); Multistate model; Population dynamics; Pradel's reverse time model; Realized population growth rate; Spatiotemporal population dynamics

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SCIURIDAE; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MARMOTA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 35348909204     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0817-9     Document Type: Article

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