Spatiotemporal variation in survival of male yellow-bellied marmots

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 365-373

  Borrego, Natalia ^a   Ozgul, Arpat ^a   Armitage, Kenneth B ^b   Blumstein, Daniel T ^c   Oli, Madan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Demography; Male marmots; Marmota flaviventris; Multistate capture mark recapture model; Population dynamics; Spatial variation; Temporal variation; Yellow bellied marmot

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; MALE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA FLAVIVENTRIS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 43049147083     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/07-MAMM-A-061R1.1     Document Type: Article

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