Impacts of a wildfire on the mortality rate and small-scale movements of a Hermann's tortoise Testudo hermanni hermanni population in southeastern France

Amphibia Reptilia

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 541-545

  Couturier, Thibaut ^a   Cheylan, Marc ^a   Guérette, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Besnard, Aurélien ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

Author keywords

capture recapture; chelonian; detection probabilities; displacement; fire impact; long lived species; multistate modelling; survival

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CAPTURE METHOD; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DISPERSAL; DISTURBANCE; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL; TURTLE; WILDFIRE;

FRANCE;

TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE; TESTUDO HERMANNI; TESTUDO HERMANNI HERMANNI;

EID: 84855610439     PISSN: 01735373     EISSN: 15685381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853811X601627     Document Type: Article

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