Estimating demographic parameters for capture-recapture data in the presence of multiple mark types

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 331-347

  Smout, Sophie ^a   King, Ruth ^a   Pomeroy, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Halichoerus grypus; Integrated analysis; Mark loss; Mark recapture; Multiple mark types

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; CAPTURE METHOD; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PINNIPED; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL; TAGGING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; HALICHOERUS GRYPUS;

EID: 79957609554     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-010-0135-y     Document Type: Article

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