Estimating survival rates of uncatchable animals: The myth of high juvenile mortality in reptiles

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 607-611

  Pike, David A ^a   Pizzatto, Lígia ^a   Pike, Brian A ^b   Shine, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Juvenile reptiles; Lizards; Phylogenetic hypotheses; Reproductive mode; Snakes; Squamata; Survival rates; Testudines; Turtles

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE; LIZARD; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; SNAKE; SURVIVAL; TURTLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIZARD; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OVIPARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SNAKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TURTLE; VIVIPARITY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; LIZARDS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MORTALITY; OVIPARITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SNAKES; SURVIVAL RATE; TURTLES; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN;

ANIMALIA; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SQUAMATA; TESTUDINES;

EID: 42249095263     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-2162.1     Document Type: Article

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