Separating components of variation in survival of mule deer in Colorado

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 817-826

  Lukacs, Paul M ^a   White, Gary C ^b   Watkins, Bruce E ^a   Kahn, Richard H ^a   Banulis, Bradley A ^a   Finley, Darby J ^a   Holland, A Andrew ^a   Martens, Justin A ^a   Vayhinger, Jack ^a  

^a Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimators; Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC); Mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Population modeling; Process variance; Program MARK; Radiotelemetry; Survival; Variance components

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEER; HERBIVORE; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RADIOTELEMETRY; SURVIVAL; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS;

EID: 67650828510     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2008-480     Document Type: Article

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