Explaining long-distance dispersal: Effects of dispersal distance on survival and growth in a stream salamander

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3008-3015

  Lowe, Winsor H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal distance; Fitness; Gyrinophilus porphyriticus; Habitat selection; Individual consequences; Leptokurtic; Long distance dispersal; Movement ecology; New Hampshire, USA; Population ecology; Salamanders; Spatial dynamics

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BODY CONDITION; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOVEMENT; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RANGE EXPANSION; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGEVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RIVER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; LONGEVITY; RIVERS; URODELA;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

GYRINOPHILUS PORPHYRITICUS; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 77957742085     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1458.1     Document Type: Article

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