The risk of flawed inference in evolutionary studies when detectability is less than one

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 441-448

  Gimenez, Olivier ^a   Viallefont, Anne ^b,c   Charmantier, Anne ^a   Pradel, Roger ^a,d   Cam, Emmanuelle ^a   Brown, Charles R ^e   Anderson, Mark D ^f   Brown, Mary Bomberger ^a,g   Covas, Rita ^a   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^b,c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^f University of Tulsa ^*  (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Cormack Jolly Seber; Fitness function; Individual covariates; Selection gradients; Senescence

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NATURAL SELECTION; PASSERINE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENESCENCE; WILD POPULATION;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DEER; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPARROW;

AGING; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DEER; EVOLUTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPARROWS;

CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; PHILETARIUS SOCIUS;

EID: 51549111574     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589520     Document Type: Article

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