The decline of a large yellow-footed rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) colony following a pulse of resource abundance

Australian Mammalogy

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 99-107

  Sharp, Andy ^a,b   McCallum, Hamish ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

exponential rate of population increase; Jolly Seber Cormack population estimator; mark recapture; mark resight; Minta Mangel population estimator; population dynamics.

Indexed keywords

PETROGALE XANTHOPUS;

EID: 77956903419     PISSN: 03100049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AM08113     Document Type: Article

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