Analysing the effect of movement on local survival: A new method with an application to a spatially structured population of the arboreal gecko Gehyra variegata

Oecologia

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 679-690

  Gruber, Bernd ^a,b   Henle, Klaus ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Floater; Movement mortality; Site fidelity; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; LIZARD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEX RATIO; SIMULATION; SITE FIDELITY; SURVIVAL; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; LIZARD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; LIZARDS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; GEHYRA VARIEGATA; GEKKONIDAE;

EID: 36849041498     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0866-0     Document Type: Article

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