A reanalysis of competing hypotheses for the spread of the California sea otter

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2503-2512

  Smith, Curtis A ^a,d   Giladi, Itamar ^b,e   Young Seon, L E E ^c,f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^e BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^f MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

California sea otter; ; Dispersal distance; ; Elasticity; ; Enhydra lutris nereis; ; Integrodifference matrix model; ; Mortality; ; Sensitivity; ; Spread rate; ; Stage structured model; ; Survival

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE MAMMAL; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; POPULATION GROWTH; RANGE EXPANSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARNIVORA; DEMOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; DEMOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OTTERS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CARNIVORA; ENHYDRA; ENHYDRA LUTRIS NEREIS;

EID: 69449085637     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0794.1     Document Type: Article

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