Is hunting mortality additive or compensatory to natural mortality? Effects of experimental harvest on the survival and cause-specific mortality of willow ptarmigan

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 244-258

  Sandercock, Brett K ^a,b   Nilsen, Erlend B ^b   Brøseth, Henrik ^b   Pedersen, Hans C ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Grouse; Hazard function; Norway; Partially compensatory mortality; Seasonal survival; Superadditive mortality

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; HUNTING; MORTALITY; PROTECTED AREA; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SNOW COVER; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RAPTOR; SEASON;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GALLIFORMES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RAPTORS; SEASONS;

NORWAY;

AVES; FALCO RUSTICOLUS; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS; RAPTORES; SALIX; TETRAONIDAE;

EID: 78650020393     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01769.x     Document Type: Article

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