Mortality risk increases with natal dispersal distance in American martens

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1671, 2009, Pages 3361-3367

  Johnson, Cheryl A ^a,d   Fryxell, John M ^a   Thompson, Ian D ^b   Baker, James A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c ONTARIO FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Commercial trapping; Cox proportional hazard model; Dispersal; Refuges; Survival

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BOREAL FOREST; CARNIVORE; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; DOMINANCE; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; JUVENILE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MORTALITY RISK; NATAL DISPERSAL; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; REGENERATION; SMALL MAMMAL; SURVIVAL; TRAPPING;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; FORAGING; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT SELECTION; JUVENILE; LANDSCAPE; MARTES AMERICANA; MORTALITY; MUSTELIDAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

MARTES AMERICANA;

EID: 70349414402     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1958     Document Type: Article

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